Most Ignant thing you've heard in class/anywhere

I think one of the most ignorant things I've heard so far in college was in my African-American Studies class. We were discussing the many ways that racism shows up in our daily lives when out of the blue, this White classmate blurts out, "um...I think that if I was Black, I'd wanna be a lighter Black.....at least they're more attractive in the prostituting world." All I remember after that comment was the professor giving her the dirty look and asking her to leave the classroom. That classmate never came back either

[DST14of19]

One of the most ignorant things I heard:

I was taking a history class about the United States from the Revolutionary War period until just after the Civil War. My professor spent an ENTIRE class session dissecting slavery – why it was merely an economic system that got a bad reputation. He even ventured to say that he had conversations with many Blacks today who (after "extensive study") respected slavery for the financial powerhouse it was and wished its practice had been extended longer.

This is a predominately white university in the South. Even my white classmates were looking at our professor like . Several students raised their hands to comment or ask questions but were never called on. A few even walked out early, shaking their heads.

[IlovemyAKA]

Originally Posted by 88Lover

I think one of the most ignorant things I've heard so far in college was in my African-American Studies class. We were discussing the many ways that racism shows up in our daily lives when out of the blue, this White classmate blurts out, "um...I think that if I was Black, I'd wanna be a lighter Black.....at least they're more attractive in the prostituting world." All I remember after that comment was the professor giving her the dirty look and asking her to leave the classroom. That classmate never came back either

That is OUTRAGEOUS!