The Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous, and Tribal Populations (PCRITP) on Wednesday appointed Bowdoin College Professor Theo Greene as a commissioner.
In their November 29 meeting papers, the Commission specified that the seat Greene is appointed to is an LGBTQIA+ Commission seat.
Greene earlier this year won the Sociology of Sexualities Early Career Award, issued by the American Sociological Association (ASA).
“Receiving this award is a vindication of the work I am doing to illuminate the lives of LGBTQ+ people,” Greene said at the time, according to a Bowdoin publication.
At the end of the meeting, the Commission also had a short presentation on the Freedom of Access Act (FOAA).
This is likely in response to their July 23 meeting in which Commission Community Engagement Director Angela Okafor was recorded telling all those in attendance that they were not allowed to take pictures, videos, or make audio recordings of the meeting.
This is a violation of Maine’s FOAA laws, since the Permanent Commission was launched and is funded by the Maine Legislature.
At that same meeting, PCRITP Executive Director Ariel Ricci told white attendees that they were not allowed to talk during the meeting because of the color of their skin.
Asked about this instruction she provided, Ricci denied having said it.
“[T]hat is not an accurate description of any requests made, from my recollection,” Ricci said.
When the Maine Wire explained that we had an audio recording from the meeting where she clearly said it, Ricci declined to elaborate.
It did not take long for all Commissioners to agree to appoint Theo Greene to the Commission’s LGBTQIA+ specific seat. This is not surprising, since in their November 29 meeting papers, the Commission writes that they “identified” Theo Greene as a candidate to fill the seat.
On Bowdoin College’s website, Greene is listed as an Associate Professor of Sociology.
According to his page, Greene’s “research, writing, and teaching interests lie at the intersections of gender, sexuality, urbanism, and culture.”
“His ongoing research draws on queer placemaking in cities to challenge the notions of placemaking as stable,” the site says.
Greene’s is currently working on a book titled Not in MY Gayborhood: Gay Neighborhoods and the Rise of the Vicarious Citizen.
The book “explores the persistence of iconic gay neighborhoods in Washington DC, through acts of ephemeral placemaking by nonresidential community actors (ephemeral citizens).”
After the Commission confirmed Greene to his Commissioner position and discussed other priorities, they ended their meeting with a quick slideshow explaining what activities and documents are covered under the Freedom of Access Act and how they are obligated to behave due to FOAA laws.
After the July incident in which the Commission’s Okafor was caught violating FOAA laws, the Commission has been effectively forced to acknowledge and abide by Maine’s FOAA.
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F! The alphabet freaks.
The “commission” can appoint a thousand Greenes but should clearly understand that tolerated is not the same as accepted.
Bowdoin College Professor Theo Greene earlier this year won the Sociology of Sexualities Early Career Award, issued by the American Sociological Association (ASA), WTF is that and who the hell even cares what this useless piece of dreck does? This alleged commission is a waste of time and any normal individual could care less what these snowflakes attempt to accomplish, everything they spew forward is communistic in origin.
So the leftist legislature is financing a useless sexist, racist bunch of pseudo intellectual asshat clowns that by their own admittance are blatantly sexist and racist which is illegal especially financed by the very body that past such laws!! Greene is an absolute joke with his associate professorship in a fake section of a pseudo science. Everything that they are ‘discussing’ is counter to real life, it’s all about segregation and nothing about societal responsibility! This whole commission should be disband for illegal gender segregation and racism. More of the fake societal progressivism by the criminals on the Kennebec!
Steve L said it best. It is a crime to use taxpayer money to fund segregated, racist organizations that spew decision and hatred. Ironic that these organizations do exactly the opposite of what they claim to promote. They seem really ignorant, especially of reality.
ANOTHER AFFIRMATIVE ACTION HIRE, THEY SUCK!
Everything about LGBTQ – their perversion, their seeking the most immoral actors to define their narratives, their never-ending lies & pedophilic aims – explain why they were registered in early DSM manuals as mentally ill perverts (before psychiatric groups got ‘infiltrated’).
God still thinks their sins cry to Heaven for vengeance. Easy to see why.