The same Boston University professor who recently has sparked outrage by labeling white male college students 'a problem population,' in February lashed out at a white rape victim during a heated Facebook exchange.

Saida Grundy, incoming black sociology professor at BU, was forced to issue an apology last week for her racially charged tweets condemning Caucasian men, which University President Robert Brown called 'hurtful' in his open letter penned to the campus last Tuesday.

Today it emerged that months before the controversy over Grundy's negative tweets slamming 'white masculinity,' the veteran educator reportedly ridiculed Meghan Chamberlin, a Caucasian woman who has publicly identified herself as a survivor of sexual assault.

More bad publicity: Dr Saida Grundy, the same African-American studies and sociology professor who was forced to apologize last week for tweeting that white male students were 'problem population' at American universities, in February lashed out at, and mocked, a white sexual assault survivor on Facebook

Hateful words: The heated exchange between Grundy and Meghan Chamberlin, who identified herself as a victim of rape, was sparked by an op-ed condemning Patricia Arquette's Oscar speech advocating for equal pay for women

FoxNews.com reported Monday that on February 25, Ms Chamberlin went on a public Facebook thread and weighed in on a controversial article posted on TheGrio.com condemning Patricia Arquette's Oscar speech, in which she famously said that women deserve to get equal pay for equal work.

The author of the opinion piece, writer and filmmaker Blue Telusma, who is black, argued that African-Americans and members of the LGBTQ community do not owe white women any assistance.

‘I LITERALLY cry and lose sleep over this,’ Ms Chamberlin wrote in reaction to the op-ed, revealing that she had been raped as a child. ‘What this article did was tell me that I'm not aloud [sic] to ask for help… Because I am a WHITE woman… So when I read this article… you do understand what that does to me, right? It kills me…’

In response, a commenter by the name Sai Grundy, who used the same photo as the BU professor on her now-private Twitter account, poked fun at the married mother of two, writing: ‘I literally cry… While we literally die.’

When Mrs Chamberlin replied that she ‘got’ Grundy’s message and assured her that she can now take her ‘claws’ out, the African-American studies professor unleashed a torrent of vitriol in the form of a foul-mouth message partially written in caps.

Disheartened: Meghan Chamberlin likened Grundy's remarks to 'a kick in the stomach,' made all the worse when she learned that the woman who mercilessly mocked her was a professor

‘^^THIS IS THE S**T I AM TALKING ABOUT. WHY DO YOU GET TO PLAY THE VICTIM EVERY TIME PEOPLE OF COLOR AND OUR ALLIES WANT TO POINT OUT RACISM. my CLAWS?? Do you see how you just took an issue that WASNT about you, MADE it about you, and NOW want to play the victim when I take the time to explain to you some s**t that is literally $82,000 below my pay grade? And then you promote your #whitegirltears like that’s some badge you get to wear… YOU BENEFIT FROM RACISM. WE’RE EXPLAINING THAT TO YOU and you’re vilifying my act of intellectual altruism by saying i stuck my “claws” into you?’

Chamberlin tried to extricate herself from the tense exchange by writing to Grundy: ‘'I am choosing to "exit" this conversation, You don't know me. I don't know you. It's really as simple as that.'

But Grundy continued piling on and ended up having the last word in the heated back-and-forth.

'^^YOU DONT HAVE TO KNOW ME. what you SHOULD know is that you don't know more about this issue than margenalized women. And instead of entering this conversation with an iota of humility about that, you have made it a celebration of your false sense of victimization. no [sic] go cry somewhere. snce that's what you do.'

Chamberlin signed off with the words: 'Will do.'

Ms Grundy wrote in a separate comment in the thread: 'am I mocking her tears or am I saying that her tears are meaningless displays of emotions because they don't reflect at ALL an intention to understand the issue from the prospective [sic] of women of color and queer women.'

The entire conversation has since been removed from Facebook, along with Saida Grundy's social media account.

In an interview with FoxNews.com, Meghan Chamberlin likened Grundy's remarks to 'a kick in the stomach,' made all the worse when she learned that the woman who mercilessly mocked her was a professor.

‘I felt like I was being "shhhh'd" again,' Chamberlin told the site.

Saida Grundy has not publicly spoken out about the Facebook comments but issued an apology for her more recent tweets targeting white men.

'I regret that my personal passion about issues surrounding these events led me to speak about them indelicately,' she said in a statement last week.

'I deprived them of the nuance and complexity that such subjects always deserve.'

Ms Grundy said events in the United States over the past year have made 'the inconvenient matter of race' an unavoidable topic, but she expressed remorse over what she had said.

In his letter last week, BU President Robert Brown acknowledged Grundy's right to hold and express her opinions but said her remarks unfairly 'typecast' certain groups of people. He stopped short, though, of acknowledging the comments were directed almost exclusively at whites.

'I do not say this lightly or without a great deal of consultation and soul-searching,' Brown's letter reads.

'I understand there is a broader context to Dr. Grundy's tweets and that, as a scholar, she has the right to pursue her research, formulate her views, and challenge the rest of us to think differently about race relations.

'But we also must recognize that words have power and the words in her Twitter feed were powerful in the way they stereotyped and condemned other people.'

The university, through a spokesman, had previously said it was 'offended' by Grundy's statements, many of which were posted online at SoCawlege.com and then elsewhere.

Critics decried the comments as offensive, racist and inappropriate for a professor preparing to teach at a large, racially diverse university.

But supporters said the comments weren't racist. They started the hashtag #IStandWithSaida and launched an online petition that notes the university, the largest in Massachusetts in terms of enrollment, is the place where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. earned his doctorate.

'Racism extends to virtually every institution in American society — including higher education,' the petition reads. 'Calling Professor Grundy's tweets racist minimizes the very real effects of racism for people of color in the United States.'

Brown, the university president, said Grundy will report for work July 1.