Princeton Doesn't Comment On Professor Telling 'White Folks' To Not Talk About Drake-Kendrick Lamar

Earlier this week, adjunct Princeton University professor Morgan Jerkins shamed white people on social media for opining on the Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar rap feud. 

Jerkins took particular issue with DJ Vlad, a popular YouTuber who is white.

Vlad, best known for interviewing hip-hop artists, stated he didn't like the "mix" on Lamar's "Not Like Us" diss track. His comments were benign and hardly profound. 

Yet, Jerkins told Vlad the beef is a "black folk affair" and doesn't concern white people like him. 

Jerkins doubled down on her commentary throughout the week by portraying herself as a victim of white supremacy. She claims Vlad threatened to use his white privilege to have her fired at Princeton.

"[Vlad] tagged my employer multiple times with the intention to professionally harm me. I didn’t troll. I centered Black people in a discussion on hip-hop and told him to stand down bc it’s not his space," she posted Tuesday.

"He also didn’t think that anyone would defend me because I am a Black woman," she said in a follow-up post. I" know why he responded to me and it’s not because his other critics were 'bots.'"

She also shared several posts defending her and smearing Vlad -- like the following virtue-signaling gibberish from BET commentator Marc Lamont Hill:

"You’re literally arguing that you were weaponizing your power and privilege to threaten a Black woman’s job. And why? Because she criticized you on Twitter about your power and privilege. You could’ve disagreed with @MorganJerkins stance —I actually didn’t object to you intervening in the conversation, even though I disagreed with your point— without threatening her. This is Karen shit," said Hill.

First, Jerkins didn't criticize Vlad for his white "power and privilege." She criticized him for being white and having an opinion on two black celebrities. 

Anyway, Vlad is the one who has since apologized for the exchange after defenders of Jerkins targeted his job and sponsors. 

"After considerable reflection, I would like to apologize to @MorganJerkins for tagging her job in my replies during our Twitter exchange last weekend," he said.

Classic.

Vlad had no reason to apologize. Professor Jerkins' original comment was racist. She's a neo-segregationist, advocating for cultural divides based on skin color.

Further, it's not as if Jerkins is some insignificant blogger for Slate or Andscape. She taught creative writing at an Ivy League college last semester. She expects to return in the fall. 

That begs a few questions.

Is Princeton University fine with a woman with openly racist worldviews presiding over its students? 

Are the students – and their parents – who pay close to six figures a year for a Princeton education aware of the professor's feelings toward white people? 

We asked the university those questions Wednesday. We also called the communication department of the college. Unfortunately, we never received an answer. 

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Princeton does not want to comment on a professor naming and shaming white people for commenting on a trending rap feud. 

Imagine if a white professor tweeted that black folks have no business concerning themselves with Taylor Swift – that professor would be fired before Princeton could issue a melodramatic apology to all students and faculty members hurt by the comments.

Jerkins' comments exhibit excused racism, the hypothesis that it's appropriate to racially discriminate if the skin color of the target is that of a historical oppressor. 

However, excused racism is still racism. And Princeton should be ashamed it tasked someone like Jerkins to pass and fail supposedly "elite" college students.

If Princeton representatives decide to get back to us after publication, we will update this story. We hope they do.