A new perspective on white woman who called cops on black woman sleeping in a Yale dorm last year

[SpankMe]

This is a very interesting - if long - piece about the woman who called police to report a sleeping black woman in the common area on the 12th floor of her Yale dorm.

It garnered a lot of outrage here on DU, but probably shouldn't have if we knew more about the history of the white woman.

I really believe the liberal perspective is the more correct one, and the more human one, on most of today's issues.

But we need to take a breath and study up more on these incidents before we vent. We need to reserve our outrage for areas where it's really justified and not blow up at every sleight only to find our foot in our mouth when more facts come out.

We don't need to give the cons more fuel to criticize us.

https://thebulwark.com/standing-up-to-the-moral-outrage-industry/

It's long, but well written and well worth it.

The bottom line: she's a progressive warrior, advocating for the rights of minorities, women and the poor and is an atheist who has written heavily of her skepticism of religion and it's adverse effects on society. She's opposed to almost everything conservative.

But, she advocated on behalf of letting conservative crackpots give speeches at Yale and other colleges out of a sense of fairness. This seems to have gotten here labeled as a conservative by some on our side of the line.

And, she has a history of mental illness that includes some schizophrenic and paranoid episodes. She had brothers who have passed away due to mental illness issues. So, she may not have been "all there" on the night she called the cops on the other lady.

Also, it was really the cops who overly challenged the black woman to prove her right to be in the dorm - even after she showed the police her ID and used her own key to open her own dorm room in front of them.

Let's be the good guys here.

[Beakybird]

1. There are virulent racists, and there are flawed people who make mistakes.

[brush]

2. Please. She created quite a bit of pain and aggravation for the black woman.

Hope she gets treatment but she was at fault for what she did. It still smacks of white entitlement to me. Sometimes even mentally troubled whites summon up feelings of superiority, in fact that's what was happening in all of those cases of "living while black" back then.

A white person felt the need to rid a space they felt entitled to of people of color.

Period.

And some of us remember details from that story. She had pulled that before on the black woman's male friend in an earlier incident.

[JustAnotherGen]

4. Exactly

Her mental illness causes threats to non whites. It's a pattern. And a pathetic excuse when her behavior creates the next Trayvon Martin.

[happy feet]

12. +10,000

Incidents like this chip away at a person's soul....yet, we show concern for the perpetrator but nary a word about the long lasting damage to the psyche of the victim.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. No

Her mental illness could have gotten an innocent woman killed.

Good, bad, indifferent -

I relate to the black woman's experience. That's my existence.

I'm not schizophrenic. I've never called the police on someone for being in my space.

We are okay to agree to disagree on this one.

After Sandra Bland - no retreat, no surrender.

If the Cons criticize me for that - fine.

They get black and brown people killed for no reason. The VAST majority are not mentally ill.

The good guys are the innocents who are not given the benefit of the doubt.

[JI7]

6. some people only care about mental illness when it's to defend bigots

and mental illness does not usually mean one has no control over anything. one can still be a fucking bigot as was true in this case .

i read the entire article waiting to see if there was something more to this story that showed what we heard earlier was not true. but it just confirmed to me even more that she was a racist .

the article was written with some susan collins type reasoning bs.

[JI7]

5. i read the entire article and it just confirms to me she is racist and feels entitled

she must think black people owe her something because she worked on some organizations which helped minorities.

her comments about white women who support trump being victims says it all.

mitch mcconnell marched for civil rights and is married to an asian women, there is no way he can be a bigot , right ?

and she defended a black person that was anti gay ? we are supposed to think that is a positive ?

[dalton99a]

10. The author Cathy Young writes for this "libertarian" magazine:

Betcha her next series will be about the poorly understood white women who called 911 on black people in California

[JI7]

7. she isn't a progressive warrior. she reminds me of Steven Mnuchin's wife with the bs actvisim

i don't care where they worked . especially since these things are sometimes done to build up resumes as seems to be the case with her. with her being in her 40s and collecting college degrees.

look at their everyday actions.

mental illness does not excuse her bigotry and her seeing white women that voted for trump as the victims.

[dalton99a]

9. +1. Donald Trump is mentally ill and he is clearly scum.

[dalton99a]

8. No, students from Covington Catholic High School were not exonerated

Last January, students from Covington Catholic High School were furiously denounced for supposed on-camera harassment of a Native American activist in Washington, D.C., then exonerated by more video.

[Kind of Blue]

11. "The next semester Braasch moved back to HGS,

Hall of Graduate Studies of mostly med students and, by her account, had lots of partying going on, "into a room on the 12th floor where she was the sole resident, with the rest of the space occupied by the common lounge. As she puts it wryly, “I was living by myself at the top of a tower like Rapunzel.”

Rapunzle-Braasch, the victim locked in her self-imposed tower constantly whining now though she was the perpetrator calling police on a student who committed no crime. 43-year-old Rapunzle-Braasch still living in dorms constantly complaining about young people being young people really does need some mental help.