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Mark Wattier, a longtime political science professor at Murray State University, has announced plans to retire amid a controversy over a comment he made about slavery when criticizing two black students who were late, the Associated Press reported. Wattier has admitted that he was wrong to reference slavery when talking to black students as he did, but his version differs from that made in a student complained. Wattier told the AP that he asked the students: "Do you know why you were late? There's a theory that a way to protest their master's treatment was for slaves to be late." But, according to the student complaint, he said: "It is part of your heritage. The slaves never showed up on time to their owners and were lashed for it. I just don't have the right to do that."
