The "while black" incidents are piling up in the United States.

[riversedge]

There are many clickable stories in this 'while black" article.


https://www.thelily.com/lolade-siyonbola-a-black-yale-student-fell-asleep-in-her-dorms-common-room-a-white-student-called-police/

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The Lily News
May 11

Adapted from a story by The Washington Post’s Cleve R. Wootson Jr.

On Monday, Lolade Siyonbola was working on a paper when she dozed off in Yale University’s Hall of Graduate Studies’ 12th-floor common room. Then, she was jolted awake. Sarah Braasch, another graduate student, had walked into the room, turned on the lights and said she was calling the police. The common room was off-limits for sleeping, she added.

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Being black in America

The “while black” incidents are piling up in the United States.

Siyonbola’s experience has roiled Yale’s campus community, sparking campus leaders to call for more conversations about inclusiveness. The nation is also engaged in a dialogue about disparate treatment of minorities in public places after black people who have not committed crimes have controversially had the police called on them at an Alabama Waffle House, Philadelphia Starbucks and Pennsylvania golf course.

Other entrants include: Couponing while black, graduating too boisterously while black, waiting for a school bus while black, throwing a kindergarten temper tantrum while black, drinking iced tea while black, waiting at Starbucks while black, AirBnB’ing while black, shopping for underwear while black, having a loud conversation while black, golfing too slowly while black, buying clothes at Barney’s while black, or Macy’s, or Nordstrom Rack, getting locked out of your own home while black, going to the gym while black, asking for the Waffle House corporate number while black and reading C.S. Lewis while black, among others.

In a post on her Facebook page a day after the incident, Siyonbola also acknowledged that other black people have endured similar treatment.
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[Freedomofspeech]

1. This is so horrifying.

How can people have such hate in their heart?

[marble falls]

3. The hate I know is there, its the self rightous stance of waiting for the police to turn up that....

astounds me.

[Freedomofspeech]

6. No kidding.

[RKP5637]

2. tRump's America in his wants ... we've seen this before and where it led. Disgusting POS, he is. n/t

[populistdriven]

4. Anything short of

Republican campaigning while black
Attending NRA meetings while black
Killing government support for the poor while black
Cutting taxes for the 1% while black
Cleaning up roadways while black

is threatening to racists because racists never accept people who seem different from them as being entitled to being Americans with the same rights and privileges as the racists.

As individuals it helps when us non-racists leverage the freedoms and entitlements we have to rebuke all racists and censure all structural racism.

[left-of-center2012]

5. Maybe it's the awareness and reporting ?

I suspect racial divide has always been with us.
It's becoming more out in the open.

[MariaCSR]

7. They're not piling up, honey... they're just being reported on...

It's been going on for many many years.

[riversedge]

8. You are spot on. Thanks.