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Tennessee Professor Forced To Undergo Training For Referencing Tupac Album With Racial Slur

Chrissy Clark
Tennessee Professor Forced To Undergo Training For Referencing Tupac Album With Racial Slur
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A professor at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville was forced to undergo a racial sensitivity training session for referencing a rapper’s album that contained a “racial epithet” in it. 

According to Campus Reform, Africana studies professor Melissa Hargrove wrote the n-word above the acronym: “Never Ignorant About Getting Goals Accomplished,” when teaching about the title of a 1993 music album by rapper Tupac Shakur. The album is fully titled, “Strictly 4 My N****Z.” Hargrove specializes in researching the hip-hop movement. 

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