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"Colored Only" Sign Posted Over NY College Drinking Fountain
« on: November 17, 2011, 11:30:03 AM »
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Campus police at an upstate New York college say they're investigating the posting of racist signs in two buildings at the school.     

A sign reading "Colored only'' was found posted over a drinking fountain in the Humanities Building at the State University of New York at New Paltz, 65 miles south of Albany, reports The Times Herald-Record of Middletown.     

The sign was found Nov. 8. The newspaper reports that three other similar signs were found in a dormitory later that week.     

SUNY New Paltz President Donald Christian has sent memos to students and faculty decrying the incidents. He is also proposing a Nov. 30 forum to discuss the racist incidents.     


While there have been no arrests, campus police Chief David Dugatkin said Wednesday the investigation has turned up several potentially strong leads. ...
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Colored-Only-Sign-Posted-Over-NY-College-Drinking-Fountain-134028098.html?dr
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Re: "Colored Only" Sign Posted Over NY College Drinking Fountain
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2011, 11:36:29 AM »
Probably another faculty member with a chip on their shoulder (Anyone remember Madonna Constantine?)
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Re: "Colored Only" Sign Posted Over NY College Drinking Fountain
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2011, 11:52:40 AM »
It's just as likely this was some idiot minority member trying to make a point as any White racist's act.
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Re: "Colored Only" Sign Posted Over NY College Drinking Fountain
« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2011, 12:07:14 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on November 17, 2011, 11:52:40 AM
It's just as likely this was some idiot minority member trying to make a point as any White racist's act.

Yeah, but the university prez is obligated under PC procedures to leave no stone unturned. Sensitivity sessions will be scheduled, the Open Door policy will be trumpeted long and loud, and by the time it's all over, the prez will be on record as having addressed. the. outrage.  :whatever:
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Re: "Colored Only" Sign Posted Over NY College Drinking Fountain
« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2011, 12:14:00 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on November 17, 2011, 11:52:40 AM
It's just as likely this was some idiot minority member trying to make a point as any White racist's act.


Yup, fake but accurate.   :whatever:
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Re: "Colored Only" Sign Posted Over NY College Drinking Fountain
« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2011, 12:32:32 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on November 17, 2011, 11:52:40 AM
It's just as likely this was some idiot minority member trying to make a point as any White racist's act.
maybe it was this guy...
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Re: "Colored Only" Sign Posted Over NY College Drinking Fountain
« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2011, 04:12:34 PM »
Or the Jewish professor at Claremont-McKenna who vandalized her own car with anti-Semetic slurs.  Or the faculty member who hung a noose outside his own door, etc., etc., etc.
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Re: "Colored Only" Sign Posted Over NY College Drinking Fountain
« Reply #7 on: November 17, 2011, 04:23:57 PM »
Maybe the African-American Students Union is calling dibs.
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