this purdue university professor kept her job in spite of blackface picture

A professor at Purdue University, Lisa Stillman, at the powers that be, are under pressure after a photo of the aforementioned professor wearing blackface has surfaced. Stillman herself put up an old picture from 2016 of herself and another friend in blackface as her profile pic on Facebook. When a Purdue student found the account and shared her outrage over the photo with NewsOne, it became known that the university had no plans on severally punishing Stillman for her racist antics. Instead, they put the biology professor on time-out. “I found one of my professors made their public Facebook profile picture them in blackface. I found this appalling and I reported it to Purdue University,” the student said. “Instead of firing Lisa Stillman, the Purdue administration covered it up and told her to simply delete the photo,” the student said.

Why is this person still on the @LifeAtPurdue payroll? Lisa Stillman cannot educate students of all backgrounds with a Facebook profile picture that shows her in #blackface with an #offensive costume. Bring justice to campus! #faceitpurdue @purduemitch @PurdueBSU @SPARCpurdue pic.twitter.com/QuxsxYzm8h

— Jane Doe (@purduejustice) April 19, 2018

In response to NewsOnes coverage, Purdue University—a school that had a cross burning in the early 80s— issued a statement that reads in part, “In any event, what we can say firmly is that, at Purdue, we do not punish speech, particularly when off-campus speech is expressed by an employee speaking as a private citizen.”