Posted on 05/14/2019 5:07:55 AM PDT by Puppage
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) - In her first local TV news interview, Yale grad student Lolade Siyonbola is finally speaking out.
"I was livid, I was livid," she said of the encounter last May.
It started when her white dorm-mate called campus police to report Siyonbola napping in their dorm's common area.
"As disappointed as I was, as irritated as I was, I wasn't shocked," she said. "I was just, like, the nerve."
The police interaction lasted about 15 minutes. It ended with Yale officers demanding to see Siyonbola's student ID before they let her go about her business.
"It was just, like, classic, textbook profiling," she recounted to News 8's Mario Boone. "Disrupting my time, disrupting my freedom to exist because you are programmed think that all black people are dangerous," she told us.
Siyonbola explained she never intended for her cell phone video of the incident to go viral, generating the dubious hashtag "sleeping-while-black."
"There's live video. They can't say 'oh, this didn't happen or that didn't happen' or 'we didn't turn on our body cam.'"
The incident is now a footnote in her Yale post-grad studies as she crosses off a long list of accomplishments a week before she graduates.
"It'll be a master's in African studies with a discipline area of sociology."
Yet, she's not stopping there.
"I got a Gates Cambridge Scholarship to go study at Cambridge University in the U.K., so I'll be doing a Ph.D. in sociology there."
Getting to this point wasn't easy. Siyonbola admits that having officers called on her for no reason caused enormous stress.
Boone asked if it ever made her consider leaving Yale.
"Absolutely not, and give them that satisfaction? I came here to get what's mine. I came here to get what belongs to me and what I'm entitled to, and what I need to fulfill my purpose in the world."
Siyonbola will be awarded her degree in the official graduation ceremony next Monday.
Where do I begin?
The campus police came and asked to see her Student ID.
Oh, the Humanity.
She may as well go for her Doctorate in Underemployment with a specialty in burger flipping.
Shane in the (campus) police... How dare they check someone’s student status ! /sarc
“It ended with Yale officers demanding to see Siyonbola’s student ID before they let her go about her business.”
See something, say something...
But just make sure it is politically correct first.
Well, sweetie, you guys did the programming. Been to the Mall of America lately? Been to the Idaho State Fair? Been to a Brooklyn bus stop? Been on the San Francisco metro? Been shopping in downtown Chicago at the wrong time (which can happen any minute?) Been to St Louis?
You guys did the programming, so don't complain about the result.
Sounds like it’s her bad attitude which prompted the call to police.
I think you can begin and end with that, and it will explain nearly everything.
And a minor in flipping burgers
THIS person is why employers need a national DO-NOT-HIRE registry. Problem is, it would be sued into non-existence.
Yeah, that will get you a job at McDonalds, no problem.
Seems somebody else was “Programmed” as well.
Yale and other prestigious houses of so called learning are nothing more than abortion clinics
Consider that if you rewrite that slightly, elaborating “what’s mine” as her education, it is exactly what the world needs - someone who sees the opportunity to learn as their private possession, that no one else can be allowed to take from them.
Her selected major notwithstanding.
She was born in Nigeria, lived in the UK for a while with her family before coming here...
3 questions: Is she an American citizen, if not is she here legally, and who’s been paying for all her higher ed?
“I’m a victim! I’m a victim! Hey, everybody! Look at me! Now I’ve got my degree in Victim Studies! And real-world training.”
Wait until her first traffic stop and she has to show a driver's license and then get a ticket for a fine for speeding/left turn/right turn/turning from wrong lane/slowing too slowly/slowing to fast/scaring a jaywalker/ or whatever the cop pulls her over for.
There ya go, that's all you need to know.........
Good practice for all the couches and benches she will be sleeping on though her life.
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