After University of Georgia teaching assistant Irami Osei-Frimpong wrote on Facebook last January that “some white people may have to die for black communities to be made whole in this struggle to advance to freedom” – and after making a series of other racially hateful statements– the college president and University System chancellor have been debating about firing him.
Now the radical TA is also being accused of falsely filling out his graduate school application.
During a Friday hearing conducted by three-student UGA panel, Frimpong was confronted with filing a false graduate school application in December 2015 because he didn’t mention his prior studies at the University of Chicago and answered no to whether he had been charged or convicted of anything other than a minor traffic offense. (Frimpong ignored his October 2011 arrest for participating in a left-wing Occupy Wall Street protest while studying at the University of Chicago.)
The penalties for falsely filling out the application include dismissal, and the panel should issue its ruling in about a week. If the decision is dismissal, University President Jere Morehead will be spared a decision that the university, as his employer, could fire its employee for violating the UGA mission of tolerance and inclusion.
