In the summer of last year, Essex County College adjunct professor Lisa Durden appeared on the Fox News program Tucker Carlson Tonight to debate about a Black Lives Matter group that barred non-black attendees from its Memorial Day event.

The debate was heated but polite, and hardly unusual for the sort of arguments you see on Carlson’s show. “You white people are angry because you couldn’t use your white privilege card to get invited to Black Lives Matter all-black Memorial Day celebration,” Durden proclaimed to Carlson.

“If you don’t like people excluding others on the basis of their race … then why are you doing it, why are you defending it now?” retorted Carlson, who critics accuse of racism.

On June 8, two days after the appearance, Durden went to campus, located in New Jersey, to teach a class and discovered she had been suspended, she told NJ.com on June 20. Three days later, Essex County College President Anthony Munroe issued a statement announcing that the school had terminated its relationship with Durden. After the professor’s appearance on the show, he wrote, the college “was immediately inundated with feedback from students, faculty and prospective students and their families expressing frustration, concern and even fear that the views expressed by a College employee (with influence over students) would negatively impact their experience on the campus.”

It turns out that when Munroe said Essex had been “immediately inundated” with complaints, he meant the college had received a single complaint the day after the television appearance.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which works on issues of free speech on America’s college campuses, filed an open records request seeking communications related to Durden’s firing in July.

After months of being stonewalled, FIRE sued the college on January 3 and obtained the records this week.

The college’s internal communications reveal that in the 13 days between Durden’s appearance on Carlson’s show and her suspension from the college, Essex officials received just one email objecting to her appearance on the program.

The individual who sent the email, Jeff Brogan, accused Durden of having a “level of hatred and exclusion” that should not “be educating young minds.” He vowed to not “rest until this person is no longer employed here or at any other educational institution.”