A Towson University adjunct professor has been fired for using the N-word during a lecture. Allen Zaruba was teaching a visual concepts class and discussing a chapter about identity when he said that he was: "a nigger on the corporate plantation."
Zaruba, who told the press that his stepfather was black, said he did not mean the comments to be racist. He said he regretted the words as soon as he uttered them.
"I am not a racist. I never have been. I've been raised overseas and in other cultures. It just absolutely kills me," Zaruba said.
