“I did nothing wrong, I wasn’t making any noise or bothering anyone,” Kanoute wrote in a Tuesday Facebook post. “All I did was be black.”The student, Oumou Kanoute, is working at Smith College as a teaching assistant and residential adviser over the summer. A Smith College employee called the police on a black student who was eating lunch in a common area because she “seemed to be out of place,” the school said. “Smith College does not tolerate race- or gender-based discrimination in any form. In May, a black student at Yale University was napping in a common area when a white student called the police on her.

Source: Huffington Post August 02, 2018 15:45 UTC