
Yesterday I called up Tobin Miller Shearer to ask him about his departure from campus, first reported by the Kaimin last September. But, after stating that he wasn’t comfortable discussing his departure with me, this race-baiting professor abruptly ended the conversation by hanging up the phone.
Is Tobin Miller Shearer another rat fleeing Missoula’s sinking ship of WOKE? To answer that question let’s review how Charlie Kirk’s professor watchlist helped catapult this professional race-baiter into a more prominent position on campus ten years ago. From the link:
Tobin Miller Shearer teaches history and is director of African American Studies at UM. A couple of weeks ago a colleague emailed him to let him know he’d been put on an online list with dozens of other academics nationwide.
“It’s a list called ‘professorwatchlist,’ put out by a group called The Turning Point, which is a conservative ‘student’ group that is attempting to identify professors who are promoting a dangerous liberal agenda in the classroom,” Shearer says.
He says the list provides “caricatures” of academics, and that in his nine years as a professor he has always been committed to promoting a free exchange of ideas in his classrooms, and that no students face discrimination based on their points of view.
“I’m on that list, according to them, because I talk about white privilege in the classroom,” Shearer says.
To highlight the nature of the terrifying threats Tobin suffered at the hands of privileged white terrorists on campus after being watch-listed, the following year (2017) saw Tobin targeted with a disturbing flyer that mocked his course listing with painstaking accuracy. Thankfully, local media was there to help document this unsettling development:
The director of the University of Montana’s African-American studies program found himself at the center of a racially charged attack on campus, and he says this is not the first time it’s happened.
On Thursday morning, professor Tobin Miller Shearer, walked by a program bulletin board in the Liberal Arts building on campus and immediately noticed a flyer he posted about an upcoming class had been replaced with a racist copy, reported The Missoulian.
Shearer posted a flyer about his spring class, “White Supremacy History/Defeat.” However, the sign he saw on Thursday was an exact replica except the class offering had been replaced with a fake course called “Black Nationalism History/Defeat.”

This “racially-charged attack” must have been very scary for Tobin. Someone spent LOTS OF TIME making this replica look JUST LIKE his original flyer, and the perpetrator also had a sense of campus history, since Tobin’s name was replaced by the name of the previous professor who ran the department. All these disturbing details were related to local media, then dutifully broadcast to eager liberal readers terrified of the new Trump era and thankful to have conservatives blasted as uniformly hateful and racist.
“It’s very disturbing because of the amount of time that was put into making it look real,” Shearer told The Missoulian.
Shearer was also disturbed that his name was replaced by the misspelled name of the former director of the program who has been out of their post for a decade.
“It’s at best someone who knows the history of the program. At worst, it’s another faculty member who knows the history,” Shearer told The Missoulian.
Three years later, when two black men were allegedly involved in a fight inside Missoula’s homeless shelter, what was Tobin thinking? When one of those black men–Sean Stevenson–was taken off life support by the Missoula County Sheriff’s Coroner, did Tobin make a big deal about it? What about when that other inconvenient black man, Johnny Lee Perry, was shot and killed by that same Sheriff’s Office? Surely a race-baiting liberal professor who made his career caring about black people would RAISE THE ALARM, right?
Wrong.

The Missoula County Sheriff at the time, T.J. McDermott, was a good Democrat with strong ties to United Way of Missoula County, where Susan Hay Patrick recently stepped down, but not before she helped Tobin help all the black people in Missoula NOT murdered by the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office by establishing the MONTANA BLACK COLLECTIVE, which United Way of Missoula was a proud fiscal sponsor of:
United Way of Missoula County is proud to be the fiscal sponsor of the Montana Black Collective Missoula, the premier Black-owned and operated grassroots organization focused on social justice and Black activism in Missoula.
This “collective” was also referenced in the Kaimin article listing Tobin’s alleged achievements here in Missoula:
Shearer focused on building connections in Missoula and Montana, participating in public events and collaborative groups, like the Montana Black Collective. According to Shearer, he has spoken in nearly every city in Montana concerning African American studies.
Since I didn’t get the memo that Sean Stevenson and Johnny Lee Perry were the kind of black people who were fiscally unwise to care about, I’ve been spending the last few years putting their deaths into context, while Tobin has been popping up in newspaper articles defending Critical Race Theory and using Charlie Kirk’s assassination to victim-farm it like a widowed sociopath.
Here’s the Montana Free Press platforming Tobin back when mean Republicans in Helena were doing scary legislative things that made him sad:
CRT can take on many different forms. But for Tobin Miller Shearer, director of African-American Studies at the University of Montana, its core purpose in the educational world remains consistent: to provide people with a framework and a language for understanding how racism persists in a country where explicit racial segregation and discrimination are no longer the law of the land.
“Basically what critical race theory does is give us a much more sophisticated set of tools to figure out what has happened and how we can keep that from happening again,” Miller Shearer said. He added that CRT has evolved to include critical examination of discrimination against other racial and ethnic groups as well as the LGBTQ community, giving rise to the pluralization “critical race theories.”
And here’s this race-baiting piece of shit getting some digital ink five days after Charlie Kirk died:
For Tobin Miller Shearer, a professor of history at the University of Montana who had received death threats after being placed on a Turning Point USA target list, news of Charlie Kirk’s murder on a college campus in Utah prompted a flood of emotions. “I cried for our nation, for what this will mean for his family, for all the harm he did in his life, for all of us,” he said. “It was a horrible moment in all of its complexity.”
After those threats, Shearer moved his class on the history of white supremacy to a secret location, with a campus police officer on guard. “I did not want any threats on my life to ripple out and affect my students,” said Shearer, who heads Montana’s program in African American studies.
The image I have in my head of Tobin taking his students to “a secret location” with an actual campus police officer standing guard is beyond absurd, especially when one of the things this professor complained about, specifically with Turning Point’s watch list, was that the list provided a “caricature of academics”.
You mean, like pretending you’re shepherding slaves in some retarded Underground Railroad LARP?
To better understand the boiling temperature of my current disdain for this professor, it’s important to know that Tobin is pals with my Pops, who will be getting his own post soon. Tobin also used to attend the First Presbyterian Church, which got into the subsidized housing game like good progressive Christians with the building of the Hogan House, an integral part of my upcoming examination of how my own family has brought the corporate/suburbia sickness to the place I’ve called home for 26 years.
And for that, Missoula, I’m truly sorry.
While I do my best to be upfront about my biases, hopefully they don’t overshadow the criticism I’ve directed at Tobin over the years, which I’d argue is part of a missing counter-narrative that’s missing, in part, because the culture war has been fought, from the left side of the dumb political divide, by brainwashed zealots indoctrinated by professors like Tobin to be dangerously intolerant of what they see as wrong-think.
For examples of my unpaid work, the following posts are relevant to today’s topic, with the first one going all the way back to 2017, documenting my early suspicion of how Tobin Miller Shearer was establishing his presence in the post-Trump, pre-Covid era.
“What Academic Activist Tobin Shearer Is Missing” (October 12th, 2017)
“A Race Baiter, A Sexual Predator, And The Church Where They Worship God” (October 30th, 2022)
“While The Criminal Justice System Grinds People Down, This White Man Gets Money To Look For Racism” (February 2nd, 2023)
“A White Man’s Guide To Profiting Off Racism In Missoula And Beyond” (February 8th, 2023)
“On Trying NOT To Enjoy The Great Funding Freak-Out Of 2025” (February 3rd, 2025)
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