Braasch called cops on other black Yale student. he was making her "uncomfortable" , "didn't belong"

[Demovictory9]

Siyonbola told the Yale Daily News that the May 8 incident wasn’t her first run-in with Braasch. In February she invited a group of graduate students to her dorm for a meeting in the common room. Jean-Louis Reneson, a black grad student, told the Daily News that he got lost in the building when he arrived and was “physically blocked” from entering the common room by Braasch after he asked her for directions. Reneson and Siyonbola filed a complaint about that incident with Yale’s Associate Dean for Graduate Student Development and Diversity Michelle Nearon. The Daily News obtained a copy of that complaint.

Reneson said Braasch did not appear to think he was a Yale student and accused him of being an intruder. “Feeling ignored, I went down to the base of the twelfth floor and eleventh floor and turned my back, but she continued to verbally assault me from the twelfth floor claiming that I ‘didn’t belong here’ and I was making her ‘uncomfortable,’” Reneson told the newspaper. He said Braasch left and Reneson went to the meeting, but four officers soon showed up to investigate a “suspicious character.” They quickly established Reneson was a student invited to the building by Siyonbola and left, the newspaper reports.

https://heavy.com/news/2018/05/sarah-braasch/

[JustAnotherGen]

1. so she's an active

practitioner of being an asshole? Makes sense- and yes . . . I just called her an asshole.

[redstatebluegirl]

2. She is an active racist.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. I'm a black DU'er

I don't know what happened the last week or so with the 'w' word (other than I've trashed it) but I get the feeling we aren't allowed to use that word anymore.

But - You aren't wrong!

[redstatebluegirl]

4. I missed all of that I was busy writing a grant report.

I think it is best I missed it. In this case, no question this woman is a raving racist. I don't care what degree she has or what her background is. Students sleep in libraries, on benches everywhere this time of year. Especially at a school like Yale with all of the pressure to perform.

Thanks for saying I'm not wrong.

[Me.]

5. I'm Still Using It

especially in regards to this woman...walks like a duck...etc, etc.

[JustAnotherGen]

9. Yaaaas!

[Control-Z]

16. I haven't spent a lot of time here over the past few weeks

so I guess I must have missed something. I feel stupid asking but I honestly don't know. What's the "w" word.

[Blue_true]

34. Wypipo.

Lot of debate on it. I think that it is a stupid word, others firmly disagree. I really don't search around DU much, I don't know whether you can search by keywords. There were a lot of posts on that word and it's meaning or status as a race based word.

[dhol82]

26. Sorry, I do not know what you mean by the w word

My bad.

[ProudLib72]

6. I feel Braasch should not be allowed to finish that grad program

at Yale or any other university.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. Sarah Braasch is the one who does not belong. . . . nt

[barbtries]

7. this is more on Braasch from the article:

The SF State website says, “Her experience with NPS – which fights for universal human rights founded in secularism, gender equality and gender desegregation—alongside her work as a separation of church and state activist, developed her interests in philosophy of law. During her doctoral studies, Sarah will continue her present work in the philosophical foundations of law to attack at the root the problem of the subhuman legal status of women. She aspires to a lifelong career as a legal philosopher and women’s rights advocate. She has recently been invited to present at the 9th International Symposium on Cognition, Logic, and Communication at the University of Latvia in Riga.”

it's so fucking disheartening that with all that the woman is a diehard racist. how can you be so progressive with respect to womens rights and yet treat people this way because they're black??

[mythology]

15. People are complicated

We all tend to view ourselves as being correct and so it doesn't occur to consider if we are consistent with what we think we believe.

[localroger]

21. Not that complicated

Sarah is a woman. Women are her "tribe." She will fight for her tribe, and has learned to do so eloquently. But black people -- I suspect particularly black men -- are "other." She has an atavistic need to drive them out of her vicinity. That she doesn't see the conflict in these two drives is, unfortunately, a common human failing.

[IronLionZion]

22. She doesn't believe black women are women too?

She also seems to be that women have always been the real slaves, not the African slaves. Some liberals make me shake my head in disbelief.

[barbtries]

23. yeah.

i mean she seems so righteous otherwise, but this is off the hook. it's hard for me to reconcile.

[wellst0nev0ter]

29. She's white before she's a woman

In other news, the word "wypipo" makes certain whites "uncomfortable."

[moriah]

25. I'm certainly not proud of the actions of my white suffragette forebears...

... who tried to suggest white women deserved voting rights before black people.

I'm sure there are many today who can't easily understand that we have privilege just because we're female, if we're also white. In fact, we have an extremely high level of privilege when it comes to "feeling uncomfortable" with anyone, but especially a black male, and having people run to protect us.

We have to work together, not against each other. And too many people get short-sighted and don't see that.

[mr_liberal]

36. Theyve cherry picked two incidents.

and one is just one person's word who's piling on.

There could be a reasonable explanation for what happened. Id wait to hear her side.

[moriah]

38. How many other times do you think this woman called campus security?

I mean, it's quite possible she was a more than frequent caller.

But that doesn't say much for her sense of security in a locked dorm.

[barbtries]

43. i don't think so.

she made the calls on 2 people who had every right to be where they were and it is no coincidence that both people are black. I'd like to see some sign from her that she's taken a look at herself and recognized her racism and grew from the experience.

[Blue_Adept]

8. Always believe the woman

:duck:

[Me.]

10. Really?

[Blue_Adept]

11. Sometimes a little levity

Plus it factors into the other conversation about this elsewhere on DU where we say "white woman" and "black girl"

[RockRaven]

12. She's totally not racist

she's just very uncomfortable around black people, thinks they don't belong around her, and is willing to say such things out loud.

[ProfessorGAC]

13. Well, That's It Then!

You nailed it perfectly! No reason to judge her character just because she acts like a complete tool! It's just discomfort. :Sarcasm:

[MaryMagdaline]

32. Well there you go then

Described her to a T

[SidDithers]

14. Just a little Yale economic anxiety, surely...nt

Sid

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. Two things can be done: Enforce false report laws, & Sue police command & training

Get Sarah Braasch up on charges of Wasting Police Time and Making a False Report to Police.

[MaryMagdaline]

33. Exactly what is called for. Make her pay the costs of

2 to 4 hours of police time and ho to court on failing false report

[DFW]

19. I think Braasch should be allowed to keep her appointment in Latvia

As long as she gets a one-way ticket and promises to stay there.

[IronLionZion]

20. Maybe some DUers can coddle her for economic anxieties

and put forth lots of programs and plans to improve her life because she's the real victim here.

[dalton99a]

28. Give her another summa cum laude degree to add to her collection of degrees

Maybe that'll calm her down

[Anon-C]

24. K&R! Nt

[dalton99a]

27. The Trumpanzee loves hate speech and actively practices hate

[wellst0nev0ter]

31. Nah, she's supposed to be one of us

She appears to be a bona-fide feminist, but she calls the cops on innocent blacks

PS, there's more of them than we give them credit for.

[Varaddem]

30. Bush

Remember one of its most illustrious graduate went to Senegal and talked about when the slaves came over in search of religious and economic freedom. My apologies to you Yale graduates who earned your way

[dreamland]

35. She book-smart, but lacking in all areas of humanity.

It seems that she's spent her life being a student. Although she's studied, she has no compassion. It's all words with no substance for her.

[rusty fender]

37. She sounds like a psycho

She is either a psychopath or a sociopath with extreme narcissism. You can bank on that.

[defacto7]

40. Bingo...

[uponit7771]

42. +1

[Kirk Lover]

39. It's good this is being brought to the forefront. It's good that we are talking about it. nt

[Cha]

41. K&R :(