I also know damn well if some white kids did this, (Reply #19)

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Mon Jun 10, 2019, 05:16 PM

Blue_Tires (55,445 posts)

19. I also know damn well if some white kids did this,

it would have been probation at the very worst... (And I do work at a university, fwiw)

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32 replies	Author	Time	Post
Ohio bakery awarded $11 million in libel lawsuit against Oberlin College over alleged racial profili [View all]	Eugene	Jun 2019	OP
11 million reasons	Jake Stern	Jun 2019	#1
Do you have personal knowledge - or are you jumping in without knowing all the facts?	Ms. Toad	Jun 2019	#2
The three students that were arrested plead guilty.	MichMan	Jun 2019	#3
And no blacks who are innocent	Ms. Toad	Jun 2019	#14
Called the police predominantly on people of color?	Jake Stern	Jun 2019	#24
My point was merely that arrest and guilty plea	Ms. Toad	Jun 2019	#30
A quote from one of the students	melm00se	Jun 2019	#4
As I said, my knowledge is personal -	Ms. Toad	Jun 2019	#15
Were you a member of the jury ?	MichMan	Jun 2019	#31
As I said I have personal knowledge	Ms. Toad	Jun 2019	#32
If you think they're seeing a penny of that 11 million	Blue_Tires	Jun 2019	#7
They won't get a quarter of it	Jake Stern	Jun 2019	#12
Either that or folks are forgetting what life was like when they were in college...	Blue_Tires	Jun 2019	#16
They are very fortunate that they didn't have felony convictions	exboyfil	Jun 2019	#18
I also know damn well if some white kids did this,	Blue_Tires	Jun 2019	#19
"Let's make an example out of those black kids vibe"?	Jake Stern	Jun 2019	#23
I hope you get through this okay.	OneBro	Jun 2019	#29
People don't usually "fling around charges of racism"	StarfishSaver	Jun 2019	#10
In this instance they did fling it around	Jake Stern	Jun 2019	#11
An earlier (two years ago) thread regarding the incident.	Dr. Strange	Jun 2019	#5
Meredith Raimondo needs to join Melissa Click at Gonzaga	exboyfil	Jun 2019	#6
Why Was Oberlin	RobinA	Jun 2019	#8
Apparently the college even demanded that they be notified of shoplifters instead of the police.	Quackers	Jun 2019	#9
That's a problem a lot of colleges have -	Ms. Toad	Jun 2019	#13
According to the complaint, a Facebook post by an Oberlin academic department stated, "Gibson's has	Celerity	Jun 2019	#17
Wow...	Blue_Tires	Jun 2019	#20
They weren't held liable for the students' actions. I think they were held liable for the acts of	StarfishSaver	Jun 2019	#21
It seems to say that it was a FB post by an official department of Oberlin	Celerity	Jun 2019	#22
It is sad that this even reached the level it did	ripcord	Jun 2019	#25
How did this get ramped up to $11 million?	shanen	Jun 2019	#26
They left the store with two bottles of wine	exboyfil	Jun 2019	#27
The exact breakdown was...	Dr. Strange	Jun 2019	#28

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