Phylicia Rashad

[simpleSimon]

She was in a tough spot. Yes, he was her longtime friend, and she may well have had blinders to his bad behavior.

Was she?  All she has to do was keep her mouth shut.  How tough is it to do that?  No one in the world was waiting for a tweet from Phylicia Rashad, but driven by vanity, narcissism, etc, she felt the need to (offer a tone deaf) comment and the comment blew up in her face—so much so that she had to quickly delete it and backtrack when the University distanced itself from her initial tweet.  I suspect someone from the school scolded her and told her that an incoming Dean should not be making comments that support and celebrate a sexual predator.  How could any student feel comfortable going to her with a claim of sexual abuse in the future?  Rashad now says that she will undergo sensitivity training and listening, but no amount of sensitivity training is going to make an obviously clueless 73 year old woman credible.  If an incoming Dean demonstrates a need for sensitivity training before arriving on campus then you hired the wrong person.

If she really wants to help the College of Fine Arts she should step aside NOW.  She can still support them as an informal advisor or development ambassador, but having her at the helm after such a stunning display of bad judgment would be cartoonish in its absurdity!

[mahagonny]

May be a case of alcohol + internet in the home =  lock up your thoughts!