- Thursday, April 25, 2024
By: Keerthi Mohan
A Cambridge academic has announced her decision to not tutor students from King’s College to protest the racist behaviour of its porters. Dr Priyamvada Gopal, a fellow specialising in postcolonial literature, said the porter refused to call her “Dr” and insisted on calling her “madam” despite being asked to stop. Gopal took to Twitter to talk about “consistently racist profiling and aggression” over the years by the porters. “‘Please address me as Dr Gopal.’ ‘I don’t care who you are.’ This is @Kings_College Head Porter who then launched into a tirade about how people treat him. I am sorry but…
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