A college professor been placed on administrative leave following a racist incident where he refused to call a student by her given name and instructed her—twice—to “anglicize” her name.
Hubbard even allegedly refered to her as"P-Nguyen" later on during a Zoom class.
Nguyen informed him via email that she felt his request was discriminatory and insisted that he refer to her by her birth name.Laney College freshman student Phuc Bui Diem Nguyen speaks to ABC News' San Francisco station KGO during an interview after Matthew Hubbard, her trigonometry professor, refused to call her by her name and asked her to anglicize it.
Hubbard responded to her request saying that she should “change [her name] to avoid embarrassment both on my part and on the part of the people who had to say it … I understand you are offended, but you need to understand your name is an offensive sound in my language.” He also included a couple of expletives in the email message that has been shared on social media by one of Nguyen’s friends further explaining his reasoning.
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