White Yale Student Calls Police on Black Student for Napping in Dorm
Source: Diversity Inc.
Yale University claims it is committed to "maintaining an inclusive community of scholars." However, there's a glaring error in its practices when a white graduate student is either ill prepared or unwilling to live in a diverse and inclusive environment and continues to call the authorities on Black students.
Link to tweet
Sarah Braasch reported Lolade Siyonbola, who is Black and also a graduate student, to Yale Police officers on Monday because Siyonbola fell asleep in the Hall of Graduate studies common room.
Police interrogated Siyonbola for more than 15 minutes. She showed the officers her room key and eventually went to her room to produce her student ID to confirm she is a Yale student who lives in the building.
Authorities said the interrogation took long because her last name was misspelled in the student database. Siyonbola wound up being penalized because she doesn't have a typical American last name so much for inclusiveness.
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The Mouth
(3,150 posts)The way Ms. Siyonbola stood up, respectfully but forcefully, to the police is really a model of how to take *NO* shit but not escalate things. One extremely intelligent and forceful lady. I'll try to find a link to the video later, but she documented everything and handled herself better than I could have.
And, obviously, yes it's extremely sad that this ever even happened, but man, she stayed calm without backing down!
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Though it's probably better she didn't.
Calling the police on students sleeping!
Really?
Shheesshh
The Mouth
(3,150 posts)to get the full story. It's a good thing that she video recorded it. There was the implication that the student who called the police has some issues of the psychological type, and had earlier called the police on a (AA) student who was merely in the stairwell looking for a particular room. Why Yale is letting such a person continue to reside there is an issue I have not enough knowledge of to comment upon. My only intent was to praise the young lady for how she handled a situation that I (and probably most people) would have escalated and rightfully so; 'grace under pressure' impresses me.
Marcuse
(7,480 posts)The Mouth
(3,150 posts)and even more unfortunately plenty of POC have an opportunity to do so every damned day.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)because "somebody is sleeping" ain't exactly a bank robbery...
olddad56
(5,732 posts)laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Probably never get those facts without litigation