You know how every right wing pundit thinks colleges are liberal snowflake safe spaces? Well, think again.
Cuz today we have an example of some good ole Trumpmerica ignorant racism in the freakin’ Ive League!
Lolade Siyonbola had fallen asleep while studying in the common area of her campus residence, leading fellow grad student Sarah Braasch to call the police on her!
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Um, what?? Did she just see a black woman and immediately think, ‘I need an adult’??
When Siyonbola woke to find the philosophy student (because life just has to keep winking at us in 2018) on the phone with the cops, she posted the incident live on her Facebook for both evidence and safety.
Even after finding out this was a fellow student (if she didn’t know before), Braasch tells her in no uncertain terms:
“I have every right to call the police. You cannot sleep in that room.”
Dafuq??
You have “every right” to make a woman of color prove she isn’t an intruder, waste the time of police, and risk an even more dangerous incident??
In fact, Siyonbola says on her post that Braasch called the police on a friend of hers who was visiting a few months back!
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The police questioned Siyonbola for more than 15 minutes total, demanding proof she “belonged” there.
She unlocked the door to her room and eventually, reluctantly, showed her ID. Why the protest? As Siyonbola puts it to the police in the video:
“I deserve to be here. I paid tuition like everybody else. I am not going to justify my existence here. It’s not even a conversation.”
Seriously. Ugh.
Ch-ch-check out the video for yourself (below):
Part 2 – Sarah Braasch, Philosophy PhD student, called the cops on my friend a few months ago for getting lost in my building. Today she messed├óΓé¼ΓÇ¥again├óΓé¼ΓÇ¥with the wrong one.
Posted by Lolade Siyonbola on Monday, May 7, 2018
After finding out about the incident, Lynn Cooley, dean of Yale’s graduate school of arts and sciences, emailed students on Tuesday, writing:
“Incidents like that of last night remind us of the continued work needed to make Yale a truly inclusive place. I am committed to redoubling our efforts to build a supportive community in which all graduate students are empowered in their intellectual pursuits and professional goals within a welcoming environment.”
Um, so maybe haul this Braasch woman in and explain it to her? You’re a teacher, right? She’s a philosophy student. Tell her why what she did is so appalling!
You know how in grade school, when one student did something bad, instead of dealing with that one student’s behavior the teacher would always tell the entire class not to misbehave?
That seems essentially like what’s happening here. Only with one less “e”. (Because it’s grad school.)
[Image via Facebook.]