Professor Ellison has been called before the administrators at his Los Angeles-area prestige university. He’s offended yet another easily offended student. Ellison asks why they’re so “delicate” these days, only for the administrators to lightly in tone (but demanding in intent) ask him to take some time away from the classroom.
What got him in trouble? In a classroom discussion of Flannery O’Connor’s role in southern fiction, Ellison wrote “the artificial n——r” on the whiteboard. An offended student raised her hand to tell the professor her difficulty with the “wrong” word on the board. Ellison responded dryly that it’s not wrong, that it has two gs.
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