Posted on 04/16/2021 10:58:14 AM PDT by karpov
An unfolding case at Smith College shows how the obsession with race can blind administrators to facts and lead them to act in ways that harm innocent people.
In 2018, Oumou Kanoute, a black student at Smith College, claimed that she was harassed by a janitor and police officer who had accused her of trespassing while eating inside a dormitory lounge. The story went viral with coverage from CNN, The Washington Post, and The New York Times, and the American Civil Liberties Union came to her assistance, claiming that she had been targeted for “eating while black.”
Because of the publicity, the officer and the janitor were branded as racists. Kanoute received a formal apology from Smith College’s president, Kathleen McCartney. In it, McCartney wrote how troubled she was at hearing that “people of color are targeted while simply going about the business of their ordinary lives.”
But the story Kanoute told was not accurate, as we learn from this New York Times article published in February. We read that Smith College hired a law firm to investigate the episode and, after three months, the law firm concluded that Kanoute’s claims were false and there was no evidence of pervasive bias against black students on campus. The truth was that she was trespassing—the dormitory in which she ate lunch was closed to students for the summer. The janitor, therefore, had every reason to call security, and the officer who showed up was unarmed—contrary to Kanoute’s claims—and apologized for bothering the student. No evidence of racism was found in either the janitor’s or the officer’s behavior.
All that was left was Kanoute’s claims of “implicit bias” and a yearlong “pattern of discrimination.” The investigation found no proof of that either.
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You mean this was another false race incident? Why am I not surprised?
The United States of Smollett.
What a heartbreaking story.
There is no penalty for President McCartney, Smith College or even, evidently, for the accuser. That being the case, there is no incentive to change behaviors or actions as they obviously jibe with the pervasive LEFT culture at Smith and its sibling ‘woke’ institutions of mis-learning!
Liberals have no interest in the truth whatsoever.
here is the real problem no one is talking about (that I know of).
The incident was false. Most likely set up by the administration to create an incident that allowed him/her to react with all of the anti white blather that can be dug up. The agenda moved forward and that is the key take away.
They could care less about actual or implicit racism, nor about innocent people being hurt. The agenda moves forward.
All of that information proving the student was lying was available when this incident first hit the “news”. Smith College lied, as well, to advance the agenda.
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“An unfolding case at Smith College shows how the obsession with race can blind administrators to facts and lead them to act in ways that harm innocent people.”
A fake incident at Smith dyke factory shows how a fear of being called a racist can give hate-filled, mean-spirited, envious, resentful, vicious, close-minded, violent, murdering, censoring, horse-punching, book-burning, ignorant, uneducated, unskilled, childish, prejudiced, racist, women-hating, man-hating, perverted, thieving, destructive, American-hating, Christian-hating, Muslim-loving, communist, vulgar, dirty, smelly, regressive, restrictive, prohibitive, bed-wetting, cop-killing, scared little lying thumb-sucking idiots the excuse they want to harm innocent people and the United States.
Cry hissyfit and let slip the poodles of indignation.
On college campuses though shalt not question the veracity of colored people.
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