A Boston University spokesman said the administration is “offended” by an incoming African American Studies professor’s disparaging tweets about white people, which have gone viral and now have students at odds.

Saida Grundy, who starts in July as an assistant professor of sociology and African American Studies, has sent out several racially charged tweets in recent months, including calling “white college males” a “problem population,” declaring “white masculinity is THE problem for America’s colleges.” Other tweets stated “Deal with your white (expletive), white people. slavery is a *YALL* thing,” and “Every MLK week I commit myself to not spending a dime in white-owned businesses. And every year I find it nearly impossible.”

The tweets were compiled by the web site SoCawlege.com last week before Grundy — described on BU’s website as a “feminist sociologist of race & ethnicity” — made her account private. They were also published by Fox News.

“While we recognize that Dr. Grundy has the right to hold and express personal opinions, BU does not condone racism or bigotry in any form, and we are offended by such statements,” BU spokesman Colin Riley said in a statement yesterday. The BU statement did not address whether the university is considering any disciplinary action against Grundy, who could not be reached for comment yesterday.

Ava Mack, a junior political science major, said Grundy’s tweets cast an unfair, offensive blanket association over white students.

“If I’m hiring a professor, I want someone who can relate to all students, all groups of people from all walks of life,” Mack said. “It just seems to me that she is just not able to do that.”

Mariia Yelizarova, a Ukrainian student in BU’s sociology program, said the tweets could alienate large swaths of students.

“BU is one of the most diverse schools in the country, and it actually has a lot of people who come from different backgrounds, and her tweets would just be exclusionary to a lot of those people,” Yelizarova said.

“You want to give students as much leeway to have their own opinion as possible, and I just don’t feel this would happen with her. If I was a freshman, and that’s the impression I got about our department, I would definitely change my major as soon as possible.”

But other students have leapt to Grundy’s defense. Noor Toraif, a junior studying neuroscience and philosophy, said she and a student group called the People of Color Coalition are all standing firm with Grundy.

“I don’t think reverse racism against white folks is a thing,” Toraif said. “You need to have institutional and systemic power in order to be racist. People of color like Professor Grundy don’t have that. … I’m 100 percent supportive of her and excited for her to come to campus.”