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The Appalling Smith College Case—Race Tramples on Truth and Justice
James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | April 16, 2021 | Lee Trepanier

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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TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; hatecrimehoax; kanoute; smithcollege

1 posted on 04/16/2021 10:58:14 AM PDT by karpov
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To: karpov

You mean this was another false race incident? Why am I not surprised?


2 posted on 04/16/2021 11:03:18 AM PDT by rllngrk33 (It seems the soap box and ballot box have failed, it might be time for the bullet box.)
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To: karpov

The United States of Smollett.


3 posted on 04/16/2021 11:07:13 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: karpov
She was eating lunch and came across a Ramen noodle shaped like a noose?

What a heartbreaking story.

4 posted on 04/16/2021 11:08:20 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: karpov

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!


5 posted on 04/16/2021 11:08:21 AM PDT by SES1066 (I love my Country, but I fear too much Government!)
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To: karpov
...college presidents ought to know that whenever a controversy arises, the most important thing is to discover the truth.

Liberals have no interest in the truth whatsoever.

6 posted on 04/16/2021 11:09:14 AM PDT by econjack
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To: karpov

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.


7 posted on 04/16/2021 11:53:03 AM PDT by dirtymac (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.(DT4POTUS))
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To: karpov

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.


8 posted on 04/16/2021 12:33:15 PM PDT by jimtorr
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To: Navy Patriot

^^


9 posted on 04/16/2021 1:33:06 PM PDT by griswold3
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To: karpov
Reality Is Not A Grievance

Grievances & Grievance Mongers

10 posted on 04/16/2021 1:46:22 PM PDT by Ohioan
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To: 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.”

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.


11 posted on 04/16/2021 1:56:55 PM PDT by dsc (Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito.)
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To: karpov

On college campuses though shalt not question the veracity of colored people.


12 posted on 04/16/2021 2:46:31 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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