Black Yale Student Was Napping, and a White Student Called the Police - Sensationalist Headlines

You're very naive if you think someone would have called the cops on a white student sleeping in a common room. It's certainly far less likely. What a name, by the way.

Seems that this particular individual who called the cops may have a history of calling the cops on people of color sleeping on campus: Person who reported sleeping black Yale student allegedly called

There's also the cookout story I don't know why there's an effort to ignore that black people are, and have been getting some weird treatment, but there clearly is an effort to not talk about those things in some circles.

I assume it's because everyone, including white people, have been the victim of jerks. So an anecdotal story doesn't mean too much. We've all had it happen at some point. For example, we had a police car cruising my street, and while I was outside doing some lawn work, he pulls up and writes me a ticket for not having my car registration stickers updated. I had the new registration in hand, but he still wrote the ticket because I hadn't put the sticker on the car yet. I had to go to the police department to have someone check it for my ticket to get voided. Now, replace me with a black person, and you might have another story to add to your list, but since I'm white it's just another example of a person being a jerk.

I mean if you were black in that story the alternative could be nothing or getting shot for being black which does happen

How is people being treated differently based on the color of their skin such an alien concept considering we've been doing it for more than 300 years, and that a situation can be different based on the skin tone of the person. Sorry but we don't live in this egalitarian fantasy you like to pretend is the reality as much as I'd like it to be.

I'm really not sure what you're arguing for here

What in the hell are you even arguing here? The lady has been known to call on minorities, and there's statistical evidence that blacks are unfairly treated by the justice system. Like what you're arguing is that this is an outlier when numbers show its not. Its not anecdotal when its an common occurrence in majority of the US.

Seems pretty self evident to me, that it shouldn't be considered too far out there that someone would be treated different based on race, like it appears to be with a few people.

Remember when Philando Castile got shot and killed despite doing everything possible right

im starting feel that if poc are going to make any progress against injustice it's going to have to be done with the acknowledgement that a significant portion of this country will never accept that it's happening in the first place

My point is that anecdotes are proof of anything.

It's really fucking weird to bring up a shitty thing that happened to you and complain that you can't tie it in't a narrative of wider oppression! There's no need to get defensive about me accusing you of anything!

I'm not complaining that my example isn't part of some wider narrative, but that it ISN'T part of a wider narrative, and that the changing the color of my skin doesn't somehow change that. Also, stop with the BS "stop being defensive" when I simply responded to your post. You threw out Castile as if it was some kind of trump card, when it had absolutely nothing to do with what I've said because I never claimed that nothing unjust ever happens to black people. I'm perfectly fine with agreeing that racism exists. There are racist people. There are also situations where people are treated unfairly because of their skin color. My issue is with taking that fact and using it as some cudgel that forces every situation that happens to a black person be about race. Sometimes there are just shitty people out there who do shitty things, like in my example. It happens. Me being white or black doesn't automatically change the cause of what happened. If a person is acting in a racist way, like using racial insults, showing a pattern of racism, etc. then I'm good with blaming racism, but that isn't the case in a lot of these situations. It's just a white person being annoying to a black person, and people assuming racism because the person in question is black.

Regardless of whether racism was a factor or not (it probably was), the student that called the cops should be reprimanded or something. Her behavior was super rude and a waste of campus resources calling the police over something so minor.

They were following procedures, as per the head of the campus police.

Police officers don't have a gun to their head to go to the maximum effort to torture people and ruin their days during routine calls. They are given the ability to use their judgement to guide their interactions with suspects. A reasonable, respectable officer would have looked at the situation, the unruly caller, seen that she has her own apartment and her ID and said "sorry, have a nice night".

Your problem seems to be with the schools official procedure.

She showed that she could get into her dorm ffs

I get that you don't agree with what was done... but it has already been confirmed that they followed policy. So if you don't like what they did, then you're problem is with the policy.

Are you being purposefully obtuse and naive?

No... I'm trying to refute the idea that the cops gave her a hard time because she was black. They followed protocol.

He's Sgman, "obtuse" is his middle name.

Shit like this happens constantly @Sgman91 Another story literally popped up today https://www.theroot.com/white-woman-called-the-cops-on-black-real-estate-agent-1826044836 This kind of shit is happening a lot, and it seems to be on the rise. Why, I don't know, maybe it's just the reporting of these incidents but that's better than the status quo that we had 10 years ago where this kind of thing wasn't reported on at all, and you wouldn't have to have your preconceptions of the world challenged in that matter. People are racist. Everywhere.