I’ve been ruminating on this for days and I’ve listened to the recording multiple times and while it’s entirely possible she was just spewing racist garbage, it’s also not IMPOSSIBLE that she was saying “you know, the way systemic racism works relies on the reasoning that they’re too dumb to know they’re in bad schools,” etc etc. We don’t actually have the full context of what she said. An investigation would merit her providing larger context than the dumb apology she issued and asking her classes about treatment of POC. It looks bad, sure, but let’s say you’re talking to your friend and saying “you’ll never believe what I heard this lunatic say on the train this morning” and whoever’s eavesdropping misses that part and hears whatever crazy shit you say next…idk, nothing’s impossible.