Collegian off ‘coarse’
The hits keep coming for the black graduate of a Queens community college who grabbed a microphone from a white professor, with a fellow grad telling The Post on Tuesday that the woman went on a homophobic rant after the viral incident.
Digital creator and OnlyFans model Kadia Iman tussled with a staff volunteer at the June 21 commencement of LaGuardia Community College.
She claimed the professor didn’t let her finish announcing her name and even accused her of “pulling the mic down super fast for some black people.”
But fellow grads also have voiced their outrage over Iman’s actions, including Nina Diaz, 34, a philosophy grad who said she was sitting behind Iman after the public outburst.
“One of the graduates, a guy, was yelling at her and he says, ‘You should be arrested for what you did.’
“After he said that, she started saying homophobic slurs. She was like, ‘Are you gay?’ ” Diaz told The Post in a phone interview, without wanting to repeat the actual words.
“‘Why don’t you mind your business?’ ” she said she heard Iman tell the graduate. “‘Do you use such’ . . . you know, blah, blah, blah. I don’t want to finish that because it’s inappropriate,” she said.
“So she’s just going back and forth with this gentleman and I tell her, ‘You look beautiful. Just calm down, this is our day.’ ”
Diaz said another fellow graduate, whom she described as gay, took offense to the homophobic comments.
‘Nothing racial’
“He says, ‘This is not OK,’ ” she said, adding that Iman then turned to the gay student and said: “What? Is he your boyfriend?”
“And then again, I’m like, just you know, ‘Relax! Relax!’ We’re all telling her to just relax. But she was just very derogatory, very homophobic, nasty — just disrupted everyone in that surrounding area,” she continued.
When asked about Iman’s claims that black students were discriminated against, Diaz said it was “far from the truth.”
“What they asked us to do is just announce our name — so your first and last name and if you want, to say your major. That’s it, because there’s almost 2,000 graduates,” she said.
Some black graduates also added their voices to the mounting criticism.
“Everyone had the opportunity to say their first and last name. No one said anything more, no one said anything less,” TikTok user @glamstonerboutique said. “The young lady, I understand it was her moment. I feel like she went about that the wrong way. No one was discriminated against, no one was racially profiled, no one was trying to discriminate against her.”