Duke Professor on leave after leaving allegedly racist comment on NYT editorial

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/05/17/duke_university_professor_on_leave_after_racist_online_comments_spark_outrage.html

This was the comment:

This editorial is what is wrong. The Democrats are an alliance of Westchester and Harlem, of Montgomery County and intercity Baltimore. Westchester and Montgomery get a Citigroup asset stimulus policy that triples the market. The blacks get a decline in wages after inflation.

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But the blacks get symbolic recognition in an utterly incompetent mayor who handled this so badly from beginning to end that her resignation would be demanded if she were white. The blacks get awful editorials like this that tell them to feel sorry for themselves.
In 1965 the Asians were discriminated against as least as badly as blacks. That was reflected in the word "colored." The racism against what even Eleanor Roosevelt called the yellow races was at least as bad.
So where are the editorials that say racism doomed the Asian-Americans. They didn't feel sorry for themselves, but worked doubly hard.
I am a professor at Duke University. Every Asian student has a very simple old American first name that symbolizes their desire for integration. Virtually every black has a strange new name that symbolizes their lack of desire for integration. The amount of Asian-white dating is enormous and so surely will be the intermarriage. Black-white dating is almost non-existent because of the ostracism by blacks of anyone who dates a white.
It was appropriate that a Chinese design won the competition for the Martin Luther King state. King helped them overcome. The blacks followed Malcolm X.

Sorry for the weird formatting, CAG is being stupid.

In this day and age, you got to watch what you say and do in public and keep your personal opinions OUT of the public.  Everything can be recorded, with or without your knowledge and twisted!

So... old guy decides to vent his opinion like a ing troll on the New York Times website.

Any professor should have their *academic* speech protected. Free intellectual enterprise and all that.

Comments on a website article don't even come close to that. I still don't think it should result in his tenure being reviewed or revoked (he's on academic leave for the term, independent of this article or his comments).

He doesn't sound like a particularly knowledgeable professor of political science, at least in the area of historical race relations in the US. His specialty is USSR history and policy. His comments clearly reinforce that his expertise is not in the US.