An excellent example of how race discrimination is virtually a chimera and is far overshadowed by class discrimination. From "A student said she was racially profiled while eating in a college dorm. An investigation found no evidence of bias. But the incident will not fade away." by Ann Althouse.
Here, she is quoting a New York Times reporter:
"The New York Times, The Washington Post and CNN picked up the story of a young female student harassed by white workers. The American Civil Liberties Union, which took the student’s case, said she was profiled for 'eating while Black.' 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. [Oumou] 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.
There was no racial bias or white privilege. Instead there was class privilege, a high social status student bringing a baseless charge of bias against a blue collar working doing his job and following instructions. Instructions predicated on applying to all, i.e. the dorm was closed for the Covid-19 duration and the complainant was the one breaking the campus instructions.
Judging by the outcomes so far, Oumou Kanoute, apparently had good reason to assume that her class privilege would trump his blue collar race privilege.
Not only this is an example of race being used as a fig leaf to disguise class bigotry, it is a further example of the issue mentioned in the preceding post of unequal administration of the law. A member of the social status privileged pays no cost for her actions while working class members of the community are punished.
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