She claimed the academic, who is the author of a 2012 biography of Marilyn Monroe, said: “You won’t change my mind — I’m 84 years old.”
“She was immediately called out for her blatantly racist remarks, and refused to apologize, let alone listen, to the reason why her remarks were horrifying wrong,” Narrow tweeted.
Narrow said that Banner not only wished she was a member of a historically-marginalized race but also said she wished she was a lesbian because she was envious of the way lesbians build community. Banner spoke immediately after black historian Deborah Gray White gave an impassioned speech about black female academics being closed out of the world of white women scholars at the conference.
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