What a horrible bitch.....
An elite Massachusetts liberal arts college has quietly conceded that there was no truth to allegations of racism made by one of their students that 'ruined the lives' of numerous campus workers.
Oumou Kanoute was in the canteen at Smith College on July 31, 2018 when she claimed she was profiled for 'eating while black' after a security guard asked her what she was doing.
Kanoute, a psychology undergraduate student, posted video of the incident on social media and claimed that she was the victim of racism. She named staff, one of whom was hospitalized with stress, and another janitor, who was not present, was forced from his job
Kanoute said the security guard may have been carrying a 'lethal weapon' when, in fact, he was unarmed.
As a result, Smith forced employees to attend seminars about unconscious bias, with one staff member, who disagreed with it, quitting her job.
However, an independent law firm investigating the incident has now found that there was no evidence of wrongdoing and cleared all those involved.
On the day of the incident, Kanoute, a 21-year-old who was raised in New York after her family emigrated from Mali, was in an empty canteen that was reserved for a summer camp program for young children. Source
Smith College engaged a private law firm to conduct a complete investigation into this incident.
ReplyDeleteThey found that:
1) the building in which Oumou Kanoute was in at the time of the incident was closed for the summer.
2) the janitor was given specific instructions by the school's administration to call the police if anyone unauthorized was in the closed building.
3) the janitor did his job as he was supposed to do without any discriminatory intent. He was carrying out the instructions given to him concerning unauthorized people present in the building.
4) Oumou Kanoute was not authorized to be in the building and she had no grounds to be upset with a simple direct question "what are you doing here?"
Thank you
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