Gov. Landry responds: Belittling students ‘is not the kind of behavior we want at … our universities’
Addressing students who voted for President Donald Trump, a Louisiana State University law professor told his class that black students do not feel “comfortable” or “welcome here,” according to a video on Gov. Jeff Landry’s Instagram page.
“This professor has defied the 76 million Americans who voted for President [Trump] – to silence and belittle those in his class who voted for our next president. This is not the kind of behavior we want at @LSU and our universities,” the Republican governor wrote in the Sunday post.
The video, dated Nov. 6, identifies the professor as Nicholas Bryner, (pictured) who teaches in the public university’s law school. He appears to be addressing students at the start of a class.
“If you voted for Trump and your rationale for voting for Trump [was] that you don’t like him personally but that you like his policies, I’ll just say this: [It’s] on you to prove that by the way you conduct yourself and the way you treat other people around you,” Bryner says in the video.
Then, the professor suggests students who voted for the Republican president-elect may be making others feel uncomfortable.
“I hear a lot about how groups of people in the law school, particularly black students, don’t feel comfortable in the law school, don’t feel welcome here, and so I want you all to think a little bit about why that is,” Bryner says.
“I don’t know if anybody falls in that category but if you voted for Trump on the idea that you don’t like him personally but that you like his policies, I just want you think about the message that that sends to other people and how you can prove that by treating other people in a way that matches that …” he says.
Bryner teaches environmental and administrative law at the public university’s law school. He also is the director of the Climate Change Law and Policy Project, according to his bio on the university website.
He did not respond to an email from The College Fix on Tuesday, asking if the governor’s office or LSU leaders contacted him about the video and how he would respond to concerns that Republican students may fear discrimination in his classroom.
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IMAGE: Gov. Jeff Landry/Instagram
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