Black UCLA Professor Files Lawsuit After Being Depicted as Sodomized Gorilla

Dr. Christian Head, the UCLA faculty professor who filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against the university after alleging that he was routinely humiliated, including being depicted as a sodomized gorilla during a slide show, has taken to YouTube to air his grievances, reports the Huffington Post.

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Head is the first and only Black tenured professor in UCLA’s Otolaryngology (Head and Neck) surgery department. His lawsuit specifically names colleagues Dr. Marilene Wang and Dr. Gerald Burke, accusing them of making inappropriate and racist comments over the years about Black Americans.

He filed the 40-page complaint filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, reports the Los Angeles Times, accusing UC Regents of “failing to prevent discrimination, harassment and retaliation.”

“I am very discouraged,” Head said in an interview at the time. “I am very disappointed with the behavior.”

University spokesman Phil Hampton, claimed that an investigation concluded that there was no evidence to “substantiate unlawful activity.” He also claims that Head was told to take his issues to the Academic Senate committee and had declined to do so.

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