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In reply to the discussion: Smith College Employee Called Police On Black Student Eating Lunch [View all]kwassa
(23,340 posts)87. My wife is a graduate of one.
They had a whole interchange with a nearby men's college.
I have also visited another. Visitors are common.
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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