This case has brought out an ugly side in quite a few people.
The College Fix reports:
Morgan State professor on ‘harassing’ FOIA request: ‘Do the right thing not the white thing’
The director of Morgan State University’s Institute for Urban Research implored a school vice president to “do the right thing and not the white thing” regarding a Maryland Public Information Act request from a conservative stay-at-home mother.
That mom is Nicole Solas, formerly an Independent Women’s Forum senior fellow who earlier this year had sent a public records request to Morgan State regarding Professor Stacey Patton, a research associate at the institute and professor at Howard University.
Patton had written on her Substack about Austin Metcalf, who was stabbed to death at a track meet in April by Karmelo Anthony. Metcalf is white, Anthony black.
Anthony ended up being convicted of murder, but had claimed self-defense by alleging Metcalf had pushed him during an argument.
Patton alleged Metcalf’s father had “failed” his now-dead son because he did not teach him about black kids’ “boundaries.”
“YOU failed to teach your boy that Black children have boundaries,” Patton wrote. “YOU failed teach humility, restraint, or the sacred fact that another person’s body is not your jurisdiction.”
Solas told The College Fix via direct message on X she had no idea who Patton was until Rhode Island School Committee member Jennifer Lima supportively reposted the professor’s comments (and then backtracked, sort of):
On Thursday, Solas posted on X that one of the documents she ended up receiving shows that Patton’s supervisor, Raymond Winbush, complained in an email to Morgan State VP for State & Federal Relations Don-Terry Veal that Solas was “misusing” the Maryland Public Information Act, or MPIA, in “her campaign against Dr. Patton.”
According to his faculty page, Winbush is a “scholar and activist […] known for his systems-thinking approaches to understanding the impact of racism/white supremacy on the global African community.”
I sent public records requests to Morgan State University abt Prof. Stacy Patton who blamed Austin Metcalf for crossing “black boys’ boundaries.”
Her supervisor, Prof. Ray Winbush, freaked out and emailed the VP to:
“Do the right thing and not the white thing.”… pic.twitter.com/hJxVQLIolp
— Nicole Solas, Sued by the Teachers Union (@Nicoletta0602) September 18, 2026
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