PROBE: Zero Racial Bias WITHIN Alleged ‘Eating While Dark’ Incident. Janitor Was POSITIONED ON Leave Over Claims.
A probe into an incident at Smith College discovered that students who claimed she was targeted to be a black woman had not been racially victimized.
“The investigation didn’t find that the data was sufficient showing that the Reported Party was discriminated against with regards to the Incident,” said the investigative report’s conclusion.
Oumou Kanoute, a sophomore at the private Massachusetts school, claimed a racist Smith College staffer profiled and called security on her behalf when she was eating her lunch in a closed lounge back July 2018.
“All I did so was be black,” Kanoute posted to social media marketing at that time.
“I’m blown away at the truth that I cannot even sit back and eat lunch peacefully,” she wrote. “Today someone felt the necessity to call the authorities on me while I was seated reading, and eating in a standard room at the Massachusetts school. This person didn’t make an effort to bring their concerns forward if you ask me, but instead made a decision to call the authorities.”
“No student of color must have to describe why they belong at prestigious white institutions,” Kanoute added. “I worked my hardest to find yourself in Smith, and I deserve to feel safe on my campus.”
The student also claimed that she was reported to campus police by the racist staffer as a “suspicious black male sitting in the normal room.”
The findings in to the investigation were publishing in October 2018, however, not widely reported. However, THE BRAND NEW York Times reported on the incident Wednesday, suggesting it’ll “not fade” regardless of the findings.
THE BRAND NEW York Post reported on the incident, outlining the 35-page investigative report and reporting from the days:
The incident began when Kanoute went in the cafeteria in a dormitory that has been reserved for a summer camp program for small children, the outlet reported.
Since students weren’t supposed to utilize the area, a cafeteria worker Jackie Blair reminded her of this fact but then made a decision to drop the problem, the outlet reported.
A janitor, who was simply in his 60s and had poor vision, then noticed a figure in the length eating in a closed-off lounge section of the dorm.
School guidance needed employees never to confront strangers independently – therefore the janitor notified security concerning the person, who ended up being Kanoute, the outlet reported.
The janitor, who reportedly later on claimed he couldn’t inform the person’s gender since it was darkish, informed dispatchers that there’s somebody “sitting there setting up in the family room.”
“I didn’t technique her or not he appears out of location,” he reportedly stated.
A security officer after that drove over and involved in a polite discussion with the pupil, who documented the experience on video and afterwards submitted it to Facebook, the document reported.
The investigation discovered that the janitor “got a legitimate, non-discriminatory reason behind contacting the Campus Law enforcement, and there is insufficient information to summarize that the [janitor’s] mentioned reason has been a pretext for discrimination based on the Documented Party’s (Kanoute) race or color, inside violation of the Plan.”
That contact to campus law enforcement by the janitor who was simply deemed racist didn’t include the student’s competition.
“I had been just walking through within leading foyer of Tyler [Home] and we’ve an individual sitting there setting up in the family room area over right here,” he mentioned. “I didn’t strategy her or not um and he appears to be out of location … umm … I don’t notice anybody in the developing at this stage and uh I don’t know very well what he’s doing within simply laying on the sofa.”
As observed by the Write-up, the janitor was positioned on leave by the institution on the incident and Smith University President Kathleen McCartney apologized to Kanoute.
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