Posted on 03/24/2021 11:24:43 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
More than 40 African American intellectuals are asking Smith College to end the “forced, accusatory ‘anti-bias’ training” that was mandated for campus service workers after a student falsely accused some workers of racially-profiling her.
The letter, obtained by National Review, was sent on Monday to Smith College president Kathleen McCartney by Bob Woodson, a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement and founder of “1776 Unites,” and 44 fellow black intellectuals. The signatories ask McCartney to “rethink how you have handled” the fallout over an alleged incident of racial profiling in the summer of 2018, and urge her to “publicly apologize” and “compensate” the school’s service workers that were caught up in the firestorm.
As detailed by the New York Times, a Smith student accused a janitor and a police officer of questioning “my being at Smith, and my existence overall as a woman of color” after the service workers asked her why she was eating lunch in a closed dormitory lounge. McCartney immediately sided with the student, who drew national attention and backing from the ACLU, as she held up the incident as an example of an oppressive campus environment.
“This painful incident reminds us of the ongoing legacy of racism and bias in which people of color are targeted while simply going about the business of their ordinary lives,” she wrote.
The student later posted the identities of a cafeteria worker and a janitor on Facebook. “This is the racist person,” she said of the cafeteria worker, who had warned her not to eat in the closed area. The accused janitor was not even working at the time of the incident.
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One of NR’s broken clock moments?
She’s told an area is closed, goes in anyway and when confronted about not following the rules cries racism?
Just...wow.
If you’re paying a college tuition, a significant percentage is being funneled into “ diversity and anti-bias “ positions and training.
Learn a trade after high school graduation. You’ll be far ahead of your college-attending contemporaries in four years, spiritually, vocationally, and financially.
And the College president sides with the perp!!!
Article is as clear as mud.
Oppression! Racism!
Words that are wielded as weapons by race hustlers. And of course she wants...compensation.
Black academics stepping up to help end this.
John McWhorter is great on this. Glenn too.
I wish them lots of luck cause they need it.
“Black Intellectuals Demand Smith College Apologize to Smeared Workers, End ‘Anti-Bias’ Training “
Blacks like this could be an antidote to the BLM propaganda. Hope there are enough like minded folks that support them.
We would have lunar colonies and flying cars by now if 1/100th the resources wasted on diversity at college campuses were instead used to better the human race
The janitor she fingered on Facebook was not even workig that day. But like “hands up don’t shoot” it COULD of happened.
It’s Smith College, who cares what happens to them. Live by the woke, die by the woke.
Black intellectuals are probably the only ones able to point out the the falsehoods to white liberals ignorantly pushing for a race war.
“She’s told an area is closed, goes in anyway and when confronted about not following the rules cries racism?”
She probably figured that it would be a free ride financially right through graduation - so why not!
If it weren’t for Tucker Carlson and some other programs on FoxNews, the public would never know that Bob Woodson and other reasonable black intellectuals existed. All they would ever be exposed to would be the radical leftists.
The “black intellectuals” may not be conservatives (or they might be) but they are obviously opposed to the 1619 project which posits black slavery as our start and our sin, instead citing the 1776 Unites endeavor.
So in this instance the college has acted in a typical Woke fashion to some spurious accusation and is drawing fire for it ... and it’s news because those taking them to task are black, rather than the expected white.
I would not be surprised if the white progressives at Smith College are even now being reassured by some critical race theory spouting individual that the black intellectuals behind this protest aren’t really black at all, but race traitors.
It's the NYT, but seems like a pretty good treatment of the subject.
“Black Intellectuals...”
What an oxymoron.
Good on them. About time they started to speak out about this. Whites and blacks worked together to free them and to have them accepted in society. It was a shared effort. Did it take way too long,? Absolutely. It is not an easy task to change the minds of people, and it often takes too many generations to accomplish the task. But unfortunately that is the reality. Many would have preferred a faster path, but it really wasn’t available.
She’s told an area is closed, goes in anyway and when confronted about not following the rules cries racism?
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