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In reply to the discussion: Smith College Employee Called Police On Black Student Eating Lunch [View all]heaven05
(18,124 posts)83. I can't and won't try
you can please proceed. This seeing a black face trying to eat, sleep, get out the rain, barbecue, sell water, breath, walk, listen to yoga music SWIM WHILE not being able to change the colour of one's skin to please all the colour cops of BLACK SKIN IS my point. You are entitled and privileged to come to any conclusion you please even if you are wrong, free country...
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Smith College Employee Called Police On Black Student Eating Lunch [View all]
riversedge
Aug 2018
OP
the problem in this case and probably most cases are the racists who are calling cops
JI7
Aug 2018
#53
the British have a charge called 'wasting police time'. We should have it too.
demigoddess
Aug 2018
#5
I like that as a legal charge. There's easily been a similar incident a week this summer
mpcamb
Aug 2018
#95
Sometimes I cringe at the thought of being part of a white culture. I think what gets me is that ...
marble falls
Aug 2018
#6
"They need to start prosecuting these callers as calling in a false report." I believe they can do
cstanleytech
Aug 2018
#7
I am not disagreeing with you but there are Constitutional as well as practical limits
cstanleytech
Aug 2018
#13
To think a college is a monolith of very very liberal very blue people is to ignore reality
bucolic_frolic
Aug 2018
#18
Smith College, Northampton MA is literally the most liberal place in the United States
oberliner
Aug 2018
#28
I went to high school there, and much of my family are alumni of Oberlin College.
kwassa
Aug 2018
#112
That article notes the the employee who made the call thought this person was male, not female
oberliner
Aug 2018
#26
Every news story that includes some racist calling in a false problem with a black person,
TNNurse
Aug 2018
#22
"I will be unable to move forward from this incident without the following personal demands"
oberliner
Aug 2018
#25
Massachusetts college employee who called police on black student placed on leave
Judi Lynn
Aug 2018
#32
My daughter was a legacy at nearby Mount Holyoke College and I fondly remember going to see
CTyankee
Aug 2018
#108
My daughter has had 3 daughters of her own and 2 of the 3 wouldn't even consider going to
CTyankee
Aug 2018
#113
This turned out to be another non-story "At Smith College, the racist incident that wasn't"
braddy
Aug 2018
#61
In order to understand this: THE ABOVE POST, 61...MUST BE LINK, & READ....READ POST 61...important!
Stuart G
Aug 2018
#62
Yep, no race was mentioned in a call. Apparently employee mistook her for a man, and it's a
LisaL
Aug 2018
#66
She thought the woman was a man where he shouldn't be and race was never mentioned.
braddy
Aug 2018
#67
A male was out of place, look up pictures of her and you can see that many of them resemble a man.
braddy
Aug 2018
#71