This is apparently the full transcript (I haven't checked the full video to confirm it's accurate):
Sellers: They were a bit jumbled.
Batson: Yeah.
Sellers: That’s the best way I could put it. It’s like, ‘Okay, let me reason through that, what you just said,’ kind of thing.
Batson: Right, right.
Sellers: Yeah, unfortunately. You know what? I hate to say this. I end up having this, you know, angst, every semester that a lot of my lower ones are blacks. Happens almost every semester.
Batson: Mmhmm.
Sellers: And it’s like, ‘Oh come on.’ You know, you get some really good ones, but there are also usually some that are just plain at the bottom. It drives me crazy.
Batson: Yep. And…
Sellers: So, I feel bad.
Batson: And what drives me crazy is, you know, the concept of how that plays out. And whether that is, you know, my own perceptions playing in here and with certain people.
Sellers: Yeah.
Batson: My own, you know, my own unconscious biases playing out in this scheme of things, you know.
Sellers: Yeah. Well that’s why, I mean, I think we’ve done a good job of keeping track of, ‘Did they open their mouths?’ [laughs]
Batson: Exactly. Right?
I had not realized that they actually discussed unconscious bias. Isn't that the kind of conversation that people need to be having in as open and honest a way as possible? What bothers me is that she appears hesitant to even bring it up. Maybe she had a sense that she was not going to be able to express herself properly on the fly, but she felt that she needed to address the issue of black students underperforming (in her opinion) so she took the risk. And the response was to gently suggest that unconscious bias might be playing into it. That sounds like a productive step toward maybe improving her teaching methods or getting some extra help for students who are not participating in class. What's sad is that the next person in her situation would be wise to just not bring it up.
(I still think that the university probably had plenty of reason to do what it did, as she's probably been saying racially insensitive/ignorant stuff for years, biasing her grading decisions, etc. But the video by itself is not worthy of the reaction it's getting, in my opinion.)