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Yale Employee Smashes Historic Stained Glass Window Because ‘It’s 2016’
http://dailycaller.com/ ^ | 07/14/2016 | Blake Neff

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.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; History; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: calhouncollege; civilwar; connecticut; dishwasher; erasinghistory; liberalagenda; newhaven; slavery; stainedglasswindow; thatsracist; vandalism; yale
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To: massmike

When they repair it just have them replace the baskets of cotton with boom boxes. Voila! problem solved.

CC


41 posted on 07/14/2016 11:47:16 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: massmike

Menafee will also be suing Bayer aspirin for forcing him to pick Cotton in order to use their product.


42 posted on 07/14/2016 11:47:19 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: massmike

Menafee:


43 posted on 07/14/2016 11:47:26 AM PDT by kabar
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To: massmike

Watch your backs Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben


44 posted on 07/14/2016 11:48:06 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: utahagen

Promoted on top too.


45 posted on 07/14/2016 11:49:04 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: mbarker12474

Hey, why don’t you go down to the supermarket?
Get something to eat, steal something off the shelves
Pass by the liquor store, be back about quarter to twelve


46 posted on 07/14/2016 11:50:07 AM PDT by Zeneta
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To: Honorary Serb

Re: College students as adults

Merriweather Lewis, the great explorer, at the time of his father’s death took full charge of his family’s 20,000 acre plantation. In his day, graduating college students ( especially those in graduate school) would be considered middle aged.

It’s part of the Marxist plan to destroy the United States. Infantilize young adults for as long as possible.


47 posted on 07/14/2016 11:50:20 AM PDT by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: massmike
He should pay to replace it. Take it out of his wages.
Replace it with a commissioned artists rendering of a black guy standing on a table breaking a window in stain glass.
48 posted on 07/14/2016 11:51:48 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: massmike

History is now verboten!


49 posted on 07/14/2016 11:53:20 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: mbarker12474
Good for him. We should not be romanticizing and/or celebrating slavery. Or their advocates. Put the windows in a museum.

Your pet Socialist vandals will get to your property sooner rather than later.

50 posted on 07/14/2016 11:55:23 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: mbarker12474
We should not be romanticizing and/or celebrating slavery.
WTF does that, regardless of the picture?
How do you know what specific time period was represented in that picture? Did blacks stop picking cotton after being freed?
Maybe the cotton pickers were share croppers - or maybe even owned the farm.
51 posted on 07/14/2016 11:58:09 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: kabar

The picture with these idiots says it all , Democrat Party Interns


52 posted on 07/14/2016 11:58:51 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: massmike

Story get more idiotic. A throwaway line in the original article expanded here.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/latest-yale-remove-stained-glass-windows-40531347

I suggest they replace the offending windows with scenes depicting Pokemon Go monsters. Then when this fad passes put in new windows showing the flavor of the moment. Who needs history.

BTW I can find nothing on the history of these windows. Could some black craftsmen have made them?


53 posted on 07/14/2016 11:59:00 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: mbarker12474

YES! Destroy any historic buildings, stained glass windows, art, decor or anything else that does not reflect PROPER current standards of political correctness! Oh, and BOOKS TOO!


54 posted on 07/14/2016 11:59:31 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

And maybe they weren’t slaves, maybe it depicting hired field hands!


55 posted on 07/14/2016 12:00:08 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

Oh, my gosh, another government enforced lecture.


56 posted on 07/14/2016 12:01:30 PM PDT by donna (No one should be allowed to become a citizen or even a resident if they support Sharia Law.)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

He’ll get it back...probably with an apology from Yale.


Wait till he becomes a cause-celeb among some of the SJW snowflakes at Yale. He’ll get his job back with a raise and a promotion. Who knows—maybe they’ll even make him College President for his “bravery”.

The PC crowd deserves everything it gets & then some.


57 posted on 07/14/2016 12:04:02 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: massmike
“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?”

"Oh! Oh! Oh! The humanity"

58 posted on 07/14/2016 12:05:02 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: mbarker12474
Your comment is boneheaded.

It is infantile to see some historical artifact and destroy it because it does not fit in to one's (severely limited and ignorant in this guy's and your case) world view.

Plus, blacks should never forget even the smallest detail of their history, just as the Jews, the English, the Irish, etc., should recall all of the good and bad things that define them as a people over the years.

Blacks should be taught to be proud of their heritage, free and slave.

If they had some sense of their history they wouldn't put up with being the houseboys for the Democrats.

They would have more self respect, and they would start standing tall.

Without their history of overcoming the adversities of the past, they are just a bunch of whiny, self-congratulating, entitled jerks.

59 posted on 07/14/2016 12:05:32 PM PDT by caddie
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Do you mean the Blandford Church, in Petersburg, Va? If so. Yes, indeed they are something to see. Commissioned to Tiffany.


60 posted on 07/14/2016 12:06:06 PM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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