This email really challenged the way Professor Klein did his thing, which can make it hard to muster one's best self. Curiosity would have been a better respon

This email really challenged the way Professor Klein did his thing, which can make it hard to muster one's best self. Curiosity would have been a better response: What's going on for the student who's sending it? How about for the students of color? Really get a personal understanding without an agenda. Find out what you're missing. That attitude by itself could really settle things down. In a school of management, he obviously mismanaged the situation, because the end result was loss of income for himself. I'm guessing that his preconceived notions prevented him from seeing the considerable power that demands for racial equity carry in organizations nowadays, even when they come from people low on the totem pole.