Candice Hale, who filed a lawsuit against Auburn University, is claiming she was also fired from the University of Alabama and is suing them as well.
"Both institutions have tried to silence my voice. I reject these efforts. I remain steadfast in defending my right to speak truth to power and to challenge white supremacy, misogyny, and injustice—especially within academic spaces," Hale wrote in a post on her Substack.
This is not the first time Hale has publicly claimed an employer, or in this case, two, wronged her. She claimed that she left AAMU "because of mental anguish and abuse from the department interim chair."
"I have emails from the interim chair gaslighting and accusing me of not being available to my students. [It was a total sh*t show]. It was a circus and I refused to be a part of it any longer," she wrote in July 2024.
Students who have had Hale repeatedly wrote that she made race an issue in class, even a student who gave her a 5 out of 5 said, "She's overly concerned with racial issues though which gets annnoying."
In her post about her termination, Hale says the University of Alabama cited "a loss of confidence in my teaching ability," before going on to say, "Similarly, Auburn University placed me on administrative leave following a meeting with its Behavioral Threat Assessment team within the same week, where I was falsely labeled a threat based solely on my social media posts." She claims Auburn's team not only revoked her teaching duties they "banned me from campus."
She has multiple blog posts lamenting the plight of black women or describing her views of white women. "Black women have to survive every damn thing we go through. We do not get to walk toward the path that includes rest, relaxation, or relief; we walk right into the burdens of this world, intentional or not," she wrote in a piece entitled "America Has a Problem: Being Comfortable Mistreating Black Women."
In another, "Can I Get A Scoop of Karen Confidence, Please?" she rages against white women, "Yes, they are everywhere you go now. But haven't they always been there—now they just have a name, a label, a SLUR. Karens are nothing new and we shouldn't treat them as if they just came out of the woodwork wreaking havoc upon the masses of people, mainly Black and Brown people, just to get their way."
"To be a white woman in the U.S. is one of the better subject positions to have next to being a white man. However, when Black women show that same level of confidence as strong, assertive, and loud, then they are angry Black women that the world throws a finger to and is disgusted at usually. I mean Black women do not get the same grace to make mistakes like white women do. Society shits on Black women, but they never need the approval of society to make shit happen anyway. What I know is us Black women will always make shit shimmer. Point. Blank. Period."
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