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Оказаывается это ранее нашумевшая история из серии "и вот опять".


n midsummer of 2018, Oumou Kanoute, a Black student at Smith College, recounted a distressing American tale: She was eating lunch in a dorm lounge when a janitor and a campus police officer walked over and asked her what she was doing there.

The officer, who could have been carrying a “lethal weapon,” left her near “meltdown,” Ms. Kanoute wrote on Facebook, saying that this encounter continued a yearlong pattern of harassment at Smith.

“All I did was be Black,” Ms. Kanoute wrote. “It’s outrageous that some people question my being at Smith College, and my existence overall as a woman of color.”

The college’s president, Kathleen McCartney, offered profuse apologies and put the janitor on paid leave. “This painful incident reminds us of the ongoing legacy of racism and bias,” the president wrote, “in which people of color are targeted while simply going about the business of their ordinary lives.”

Less attention was paid three months later when a law firm hired by Smith College to investigate the episode found no persuasive evidence of bias. Ms. Kanoute was determined to have eaten in a deserted dorm that had been closed for the summer; the janitor had been encouraged to notify security if he saw unauthorized people there. The officer, like all campus police, was unarmed.

That night Ms. Kanoute wrote a Facebook post: “It’s outrageous that some people question my being at Smith, and my existence overall as a woman of color.”

Date: 2021-02-26 04:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] just-one-of.livejournal.com
Rich(!) black Karen.

This is a tale of how race, class and power collided at the elite 145-year-old liberal arts college, where tuition, room and board top $78,000 a year and where the employees who keep the school running often come from working-class enclaves beyond the school’s elegant wrought iron gates. The story highlights the tensions between a student’s deeply felt sense of personal truth and facts that are at odds with it.

“It is safe to say race is discussed far more often than class at Smith,” said Prof. Marc Lendler, who teaches American government at the college. “It’s a feature of elite academic institutions that faculty and students don’t recognize what it means to be elite.”

Date: 2021-02-26 05:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ny-quant.livejournal.com
Сомневаюсь что она богатая. Куда вероятнее, что она учится бесплатно. Первая в своей семье иммигрантов из Мали, кто пошла в колледж ...

Date: 2021-02-26 06:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] just-one-of.livejournal.com
Она богатая.
До Smith oна училась в частной престижной школе boarding school at Westminster in Connecticut(Tuition $64,320).

Date: 2021-02-26 06:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] just-one-of.livejournal.com
А то, что ее родители эмигранты означает, что в семье нет психологических специфически американских травм из прошлого.
Это как британские черные или израильтяне.

Date: 2021-02-27 04:40 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] rdia.livejournal.com
Ну почему бы циничному человеку не воспользоваться заморочками системы?

Date: 2021-02-27 04:39 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] rdia.livejournal.com
Технически вы тоже из небогатой страны, не ходили в колледж, и можете оплатить такое обучение детям.

Date: 2021-02-27 04:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ny-quant.livejournal.com
Как это я не ходил в колледж? И я, и моя жена, и все наши родители ходили.

Date: 2021-02-27 05:19 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] rdia.livejournal.com
В СССР не было колледжей. ;-)

«В гимназии он не обучался. Он окончил Пажеский корпус» ;-)

Date: 2021-02-27 05:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ny-quant.livejournal.com
Это очень важная и существенная поправка ;)

Date: 2021-02-27 05:51 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] rdia.livejournal.com
Как правило, во всех этих «историях успеха» есть скрытый слой. С вероятностью 90% там либо родители наворовали, либо имели образование, либо наследство, либо ещё что-то. Чудес практически не бывает.

Date: 2021-02-27 06:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ny-quant.livejournal.com
Мой опыт подсказывает что 90% с гаком негров учащихся в элитных колледжах ничего за это не платят. Никакого чуда в этом нет, просто так работает система социальных лифтов.

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