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...morning if you're black and on a campus
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/24/us/s...rm=159843734777150ead2420bb6&utm_medium=email
wtf? big scary black man on campus reading books and using a computer... huh, he must be 'homeless'
wtf is WRONG with these people? i can understand them checking out an unknown face, but not for the reasons given and not en masse like that. *wonders how man karen-calls they received about african-black male stranger danger on campus*
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/24/us/s...rm=159843734777150ead2420bb6&utm_medium=email
4 squad cars"I asked what the issue was and he said my brother was 'in the bushes' and it was 'suspicious' and they thought he may have been homeless," Morgan wrote in a Twitter thread detailing the ordeal. She confirmed the details of the incident, which she shared on social media, in an interview with CNN.
"I asked why I needed to show ID at my own home. He said 'Well, it's not your home. The University owns it'"
According to Morgan, her 32-year-old brother had been on the Northern California campus spending the morning reading his books and working on his computer when he was approached by security in the middle of a work meeting. After he was asked to leave, four squad cars followed him as he walked away.
The officer who trailed Fuentes home demanded Morgan show him her campus ID and prove that the house she was standing in -- one of the university's faculty housing -- was actually hers.
"I told them that I was one of seven Black faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences and that our student body population is 2% Black," Morgan, who has been at the university for four years, said. "I told them that the anti-Blackness they espouse and practice is part of the reason why."
wtf? big scary black man on campus reading books and using a computer... huh, he must be 'homeless'
wtf is WRONG with these people? i can understand them checking out an unknown face, but not for the reasons given and not en masse like that. *wonders how man karen-calls they received about african-black male stranger danger on campus*