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Rita Panahi: 'Innocent lives ruined' after false claims of racism
Sky News Australia via YouTube ^ | 2/27/2021 | Rita Panahi

Posted on 03/27/2021 6:16:38 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat

Sky News host Rita Panahi says "sinister" false claims of racism on a university campus saw innocent lives ruined as a result.

Oumou Kanoute, a student at a women's college in Northampton claimed that she was a victim of racism.

She claimed she was harassed by a cafeteria worker, college janitor and security officer for eating while black.

“Despite the videos she posted of the incident showing the workers being awfully polite and non-confrontational Kanoute nevertheless claimed she was deeply traumatized because she was accused of trespassing,” Ms Panahi said.

The story subsequently went viral, there were headlines in New York Times and Washington Post and outlets across the country and all uncritically accepted Kanoute’s claims that she was a victim of racism.

The university's president called Kanoute to apologise and placed staff, including the elderly janitor on leave and issued this statement.

She also launched an investigation into the incident which found that not only was there no racism but Kanoute was indeed trespassing and had accessed an area closed to college students for the summer.

The 35-page report concluded that the janitor, security officer, cafeteria workers, had done nothing wrong or in any way motivated by race.

“The innocent workers who were branded racist and subjected to terrible abuse and threats never got apologies despite the report's findings being released more than two years ago. Two of them had worked at the college for more than 30 years but none of that mattered when they were falsely accused of racism,” Ms Panahi said.

“The only reason that we know this whole 'eating while black' catastrophe is fake news is because a reporter called Michael Powell revisited the story this week and asked about the investigation's findings.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; fakenews; racism
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1 posted on 03/27/2021 6:16:38 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

Where’s that Smollett douchebag?


2 posted on 03/27/2021 6:18:08 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Republican Wildcat

The staff and elderly janitor deserve to have their salaries tripled, and the lying while black witch to be kicked out.


3 posted on 03/27/2021 6:19:34 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The nation is in the grips of incurable hysterical insanity, as usual.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Did she smell money in the closed off area ?


4 posted on 03/27/2021 6:23:17 AM PDT by no-to-illegals ( Liberals, leftists, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Shining a light upon the tactics of the race of professional victims is not politically correct.


5 posted on 03/27/2021 6:32:33 AM PDT by vetvetdoug (,)
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To: vetvetdoug

None of the media outlets who widely reported this, of course, have retracted their stories or given equal time to the fact the allegations were found to be false via the investigation. The videos of the original story are still posted getting millions of of views over the years. This story highlighting the falsity of it will get relatively few views by comparison.


6 posted on 03/27/2021 6:34:21 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

Of course, when a bunch of white folks in hoods descended on a black woman in Philadelphia a couple of years ago and tried to attack her and run he rout of town for eating while black, the libs all cheered.

https://thefederalist.com/2018/08/06/antifa-protesters-drive-candace-owens-out-of-philly-restaurant-video/


7 posted on 03/27/2021 6:35:46 AM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters. )
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To: Republican Wildcat

I wonder what these “race panhandlers” would do if they actually encountered real bigotry- like what the lily-white Democrats did in the South in the 19th and 20th Centuries. They’d be a bunch of slobbering babies.


8 posted on 03/27/2021 6:44:05 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (What if the Lord sent COVID-19 to immunize the world from something more deadly?)
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To: I want the USA back

Never happen up there. I know the area well , it’s full of white virtue signalers, you have never seen more Black Lives matter signs in your life and all in a area where the Black population is almost nil. Also it’s a mecca for Lesbian couples, walk downtown and look at the circus freaks. Great fun on the weekend. Aging hippies with bald pates and wispy grey ponytails, Motorcycling Bull dykes and their lipstick GF’s, VW buses covered with leftest bumper stickers and the usual commie tripe. It is beautiful in some respects ,rolling hills, scenic roads, quaint towns but the people who live there.....MEH.


9 posted on 03/27/2021 6:44:34 AM PDT by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Smith College. Go figure. The woman who was accused of trespassing also filed charges because she was “misgendered” when the staff called it in to campus police. They thought it was a man, because of the short hair and hoodie.


10 posted on 03/27/2021 6:46:59 AM PDT by toothfairy86
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To: Republican Wildcat

“cafeteria worker, college janitor and security officer”

How nice that she went after everyday people working hard to make a living AND all three of them are working to serve HER. She is just plain evil with a huge chip on her shoulder. I’ve observed that chip on many peoples’ shoulders, too.


11 posted on 03/27/2021 6:47:11 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (The Weak Never Started, The Cowards fail along the way, Only the Strong Survive)
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To: Republican Wildcat

We know that. It’s what the woke fascist progressives do.


12 posted on 03/27/2021 6:49:54 AM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters. )
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To: Republican Wildcat

It’s just like the Eddie Murphy routine about being in the airport..

Little white dude came up and said, “Is this your bag?”

“YES IT’S MY BAG...WHY? A BLACK MAN CAN’T HAVE A SUITCASE?”


13 posted on 03/27/2021 6:50:37 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Republican Wildcat
Sounds a whole lot like the Smith College 'incident' of 2018 with Oumou Kanoute, 'Eating while Black'!

Oumou Kanoute, then a rising sophomore at Smith College, had claimed that all she “did was be black” when a janitor called security on her when he found her in a closed lounge in July 2018. But a 35-page investigation carried out by an outside law firm found no evidence of discrimination, the New York Times reported.

However, these unverified accusations caused the Smith College Administration to suspend several long-term WORKERS' (not staff) in spite of them following posted policies. Smith College president Kathleen McCartney personally apologized to Ms Kanoute after the accusation was posted on Facebook shortly after the encounter. Later Smith College instituted and is still requiring that campus service workers take an anti-bias training for campus staff, reputed to be “forced, accusatory ‘anti-bias’ training”.

14 posted on 03/27/2021 7:00:46 AM PDT by SES1066 (I love my Country, but I fear too much Government!)
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To: SES1066

Oops thought this was a similar incident, not the same incident! my bad!


15 posted on 03/27/2021 7:02:07 AM PDT by SES1066 (I love my Country, but I fear too much Government!)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Everyone is “racist” [or tribalist] in one form or another and to varying degrees.

Those who say otherwise are “in de-Nile”, as in all wet!

c.f. “The Merry Minuette” (sp?)


16 posted on 03/27/2021 7:33:42 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ( Experience is the best teacher, but if you can accept it 2nd hand, the tuition is less!)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Another fake hate crime


17 posted on 03/27/2021 7:51:27 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (DemocRats would burn the country to the ground to be absolute rulers over the ashes.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants; All

Fake Hate Crimes Database:

http://www.fakehatecrimes.org


18 posted on 03/27/2021 8:05:16 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit..)
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To: Republican Wildcat

You will have a lot less trouble if you just stay away from Black people.


19 posted on 03/27/2021 9:53:17 AM PDT by blam
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To: Republican Wildcat

The very first thing which should have been done was to expel the lying student.

The next things should have been to fire the racist hate-filled administrators that believed her without checking out any facts first.

The next things should have been to send everyone to a class explaining how facts not in evidence are NOT to be considered. That everybody deserves the benefit of the doubt and that we need to return to living in America and not in a gulag.


20 posted on 03/27/2021 9:55:21 AM PDT by Whatever Works
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