Posted on 07/14/2016 11:28:17 AM PDT by massmike
A Yale University employee is out of a job, and the school is out a window, after he used a broomstick to smash a stained-glass window he complained was racist.
Until recently, Thomas Menafee worked as a dishwasher for Yale. But he says he grew enraged that, while working at Yale’s Calhoun College, he had to see a stained glass window which shows black laborers harvesting cotton. The window, he said, was an offensive portrayal of slavery, and so on June 13 he impulsively decided to eliminate it by force.
“I took a broomstick, and it was kind of high, and I climbed up and reached up and broke it,” he told the New Haven Independent. “It’s 2016, I shouldn’t have to come to work and see things like that.”
Menafee’s stunt was quickly discovered, and he responded by resigning his post with the college. In return, the college is not seeking compensation for the destruction and has requested that Menafee not be prosecuted.
Nevertheless, Menafee appeared in court Tuesday on a felony charge of criminal mischief along with a misdemeanor charge of reckless endangerment, stemming from the fact that the window nearly injured a passing pedestrian when it came tumbling out
Menafee’s destructive act is the latest incident in the saga over Calhoun College, one of Yale’s residential colleges. The college is named for John C. Calhoun, an alumnus and South Carolina senator who was a major slavery advocate in the decades before the Civil War. Recently, activists have pushed for Yale to rename the college, while others have said renaming the college would be rewriting history for political reasons.
In April, the school announced Calhoun’s name would stay, but that it would attempt to censor any images of Calhoun so that they will not be triggering to black students. Notably, several stained glass windows portraying Calhoun himself are scheduled to be removed before the fall semester.
Because Menafee says his destruction was motivated by anti-racism, he has won the support of New Haven racial activists.
“What is more valuable to Yale: a stained-glass window of enslaved people picking cotton, or the humanity of the African-American people who work at Yale?” said John Jairo Lugo of the group Unidad Latina en Accion.
How much do you want to be he gets his job back?
Low life animal.
Yale Employee Smashes Historic Stained Glass Window Because ‘It’s 2016’
My grandmother always used to say,”When people don’t know what they’re talking about,they tell you what year it is!”.....
Maybe he can get a job with ISIS tearing down statues and burning libraries.
Or, you could be mature, and suggest a placard be placed nearby that explains contextually what the picture represents, and how reprehensible slavery was etc. Remembering the past, and the mistakes that were made, is the best way to avoid repeating mistakes moving forward.
”When people don’t know what they’re talking about,they tell you what year it is!”
That’s very funny!
Tiffany glass window?
He did the St Petersburg church windows too.
That’s what you calm political correctness blow back by a brain dead zombie that has been successfully balkanized.
Now it has cost him his job.
He’ll get it back...probably with an apology from Yale. Yale, like a lot of places these days, has lowered standards/expectations for black people these days. The worse kind of racism.
“...and he responded by resigning his post with the college”
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He was a dishwasher. Dishwasher.
Leave it to Yale to make dishwasher a “post”.
It’s people like this that remind me how far blacks have progressed in society.
I’d go with the window.
He’d better go smash every bottle of Aunt Jemima Syrup and every box of Uncle Ben’s rice in stores, then. How dare they?
Yep. Why do leftists always defer to the year when they want to defend their policies? That's the tail wagging the dog on steroids.
How many years did it take the guy to figure out what the picture was about?
Let’s eliminate all historical references to slavery - put them into the memory hole. Then there will be no justification for affirmative action or reparations of any kind. No reasons for any kind of complaints.
They're not mutually exclusive, John. The fact that there are plenty of minorities attending Yale should be considered when you are making such comments. The bigger question for all universities is whether or not they will be havens of free-thought, or repressive environments in which political correctness will dictate what is considered free speech.
“Until recently, Thomas Menafee worked as a dishwasher for Yale.”
Was actually expecting a professor.
Good for him. We should not be romanticizing and/or celebrating slavery. Or their advocates. Put the windows in a museum.
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