Menafee:
Posted on 07/14/2016 11:28:17 AM PDT by massmike
A Yale University employee is out of a job, and the school is out a window, after he used a broomstick to smash a stained-glass window he complained was racist.
Until recently, Thomas Menafee worked as a dishwasher for Yale. But he says he grew enraged that, while working at Yale’s Calhoun College, he had to see a stained glass window which shows black laborers harvesting cotton. The window, he said, was an offensive portrayal of slavery, and so on June 13 he impulsively decided to eliminate it by force.
“I took a broomstick, and it was kind of high, and I climbed up and reached up and broke it,” he told the New Haven Independent. “It’s 2016, I shouldn’t have to come to work and see things like that.”
Menafee’s stunt was quickly discovered, and he responded by resigning his post with the college. In return, the college is not seeking compensation for the destruction and has requested that Menafee not be prosecuted.
Nevertheless, Menafee appeared in court Tuesday on a felony charge of criminal mischief along with a misdemeanor charge of reckless endangerment, stemming from the fact that the window nearly injured a passing pedestrian when it came tumbling out
Menafee’s destructive act is the latest incident in the saga over Calhoun College, one of Yale’s residential colleges. The college is named for John C. Calhoun, an alumnus and South Carolina senator who was a major slavery advocate in the decades before the Civil War. Recently, activists have pushed for Yale to rename the college, while others have said renaming the college would be rewriting history for political reasons.
In April, the school announced Calhoun’s name would stay, but that it would attempt to censor any images of Calhoun so that they will not be triggering to black students. Notably, several stained glass windows portraying Calhoun himself are scheduled to be removed before the fall semester.
Because Menafee says his destruction was motivated by anti-racism, he has won the support of New Haven racial activists.
“What is more valuable to Yale: a stained-glass window of enslaved people picking cotton, or the humanity of the African-American people who work at Yale?” said John Jairo Lugo of the group Unidad Latina en Accion.
When they repair it just have them replace the baskets of cotton with boom boxes. Voila! problem solved.
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Menafee will also be suing Bayer aspirin for forcing him to pick Cotton in order to use their product.
Menafee:
Watch your backs Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben
Promoted on top too.
Hey, why don’t you go down to the supermarket?
Get something to eat, steal something off the shelves
Pass by the liquor store, be back about quarter to twelve
Re: College students as adults
Merriweather Lewis, the great explorer, at the time of his father’s death took full charge of his family’s 20,000 acre plantation. In his day, graduating college students ( especially those in graduate school) would be considered middle aged.
It’s part of the Marxist plan to destroy the United States. Infantilize young adults for as long as possible.
History is now verboten!
Your pet Socialist vandals will get to your property sooner rather than later.
The picture with these idiots says it all , Democrat Party Interns
Story get more idiotic. A throwaway line in the original article expanded here.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/latest-yale-remove-stained-glass-windows-40531347
I suggest they replace the offending windows with scenes depicting Pokemon Go monsters. Then when this fad passes put in new windows showing the flavor of the moment. Who needs history.
BTW I can find nothing on the history of these windows. Could some black craftsmen have made them?
YES! Destroy any historic buildings, stained glass windows, art, decor or anything else that does not reflect PROPER current standards of political correctness! Oh, and BOOKS TOO!
And maybe they weren’t slaves, maybe it depicting hired field hands!
Oh, my gosh, another government enforced lecture.
He’ll get it back...probably with an apology from Yale.
The PC crowd deserves everything it gets & then some.
"Oh! Oh! Oh! The humanity"
It is infantile to see some historical artifact and destroy it because it does not fit in to one's (severely limited and ignorant in this guy's and your case) world view.
Plus, blacks should never forget even the smallest detail of their history, just as the Jews, the English, the Irish, etc., should recall all of the good and bad things that define them as a people over the years.
Blacks should be taught to be proud of their heritage, free and slave.
If they had some sense of their history they wouldn't put up with being the houseboys for the Democrats.
They would have more self respect, and they would start standing tall.
Without their history of overcoming the adversities of the past, they are just a bunch of whiny, self-congratulating, entitled jerks.
Do you mean the Blandford Church, in Petersburg, Va? If so. Yes, indeed they are something to see. Commissioned to Tiffany.
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