Jodi Shaw Speaks Out on Smith College Resignation After White Staff Dubbed Bigots in ‘Eating While Black’ Case
29th June 2021
On Monday’s “Tucker Carlson Today,” former Smith College employee Jodi Shaw discussed the dangerous rise of wokeness and how the left’s intent to divide people makes it “impossible to have a healthy community” in many places.
In 2018, student Oumou Kanoute, who is Black, was approached by a janitor and a police officer at the Northampton, Mass., women’s liberal-arts college, while eating in a closed dorm lounge, and was asked what she was doing there.
At the time, the local ACLU characterized the encounter as Kanoute being questioned for the crime of “eating while Black.” Kanoute accused the pair of campus employees of racially profiling her and posted pictures on social media accusing them of being racist. The janitor she named wasn’t working that day.
Smith College, however, went on to force the pair to undergo anti-bias training and apologize to Kanoute. Further investigation found them to be wrongly accused and that Kanoute was indeed dining in a closed area.