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There is a curious inflammatory race issue taking place at Smith College, a 145-year-old women’s institution in Massachusetts. Recently, after months of battling with the administration, one employee has resigned and is going to take her issue to the state, and the courts. Jodi Shaw says the campus environment was a racially hostile workplace. Here is the cause; Shaw, and other white employees, had been compelled to take anti-bias training and was told to accept the idea that structural racism was a given and needs to be eradicated.
Shaw has been posting her views frequently over the months leading to this recent departure, declaring that the schools needed to “
By Ben Shapiro | March 3, 2021 | 10:27am EST
Reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones attends the 75th Annual Peabody Awards Ceremony held at Cipriani Wall Street. (Photo credit: Brent N. Clarke/FilmMagic)
This week,
The New York Times ran a long piece re-reporting a supposed race scandal from Smith College. The scandal, originally reported in midsummer 2018, featured a black student, Oumou Kanoute, who claimed that she was racially profiled while eating in a dormitory lounge. She suggested in a Facebook post that she was confronted by a campus police officer, who might have been carrying a lethal weapon, and a janitor, adding: All I did was be Black. It s outrageous that some people question my being at Smith College, and my existence overall as a woman of color.
In the summer of 2018, Oumou Kanoute read a book and ate her lunch in a common room area of a Smith College residence hall that required keycard access. Since