Professor fired after calling US a ‘racist fascist country’ in email to students after Trump’s win
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James Bowley fired by Millsaps College in Mississippi for telling class after Trump’s victory that he needed ‘time to mourn’. A Mississippi college professor says he was fired for emailing his students the day after Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory and calling the US a “racist and fascist country.”.
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Bowley told The Independent that the November 6 email was sent to his “Abortion and Religions” class to notify them he was canceling their lesson in the wake of Trump’s defeat of Kamala Harris. The email’s subject line read, “No class today” followed by a message to his three students that read “Need time to mourn and process this racist and fascist country.”.
The college’s provost Stephanie Rolph Bowley rebuked Bowley for using his “Millsaps email account to share personal opinions with [his] students” and placed him on temporary leave, said the non-profit. The professor told The Independent that he was formally fired by Millsaps on Tuesday.
“I was shocked initially when I got a call from the interim provost saying I was put on leave for sending an email to a class of three students to let them know I was canceling their lesson,” he told The Independent. “It left me completely dumbfounded and I did not know that talking to my students would be censored. Nor, that I could, and would, lose my job for doing that.”.
The Independent has contacted Millsaps College for comment. Bowley claimed that Millsaps locked him out of all of his electronic devices so he could no longer complete his ancient history scholarship, or communicate with other scholars. But above all, he lost all access to his work with other teachers and students.
