This is getting bloody ridiculous!! A (black) Yale University cafeteria worker has resigned after smashing a historic stained glass window (which depicted two slaves picking cotton) exclaiming that the dining hall window was "racist" and "very degrading."
The 'racist' stained-glass window in question…
“Everybody has something to say about them,” the worker said. “[Menafee] was the one who took action and busted that shit out.” As HeatStreet.com reports,
The worker, Corey Menafee, is black. He told the New Haven Independent that the dining hall window was “racist” and “very degrading” and that last month, while working an event for the college, he decided to use a broomstick to smash the window.
“I took a broomstick, and it was kind of high, and I climbed up and reached up and broke it,” he told the Independent. “It’s 2016, I shouldn’t have to come to work and see things like that.
“I just said, ‘That thing’s coming down today. I’m tired of it,’” he added. “I put myself in a position to do it, and did it.”
“I just went to the bathroom and shaved,” Menafee said, “to make sure I was clean-shaven for the authorities.”
City police arrested Menafee, who now faces a felony charge.
After this story was originally published, Yale Vice President for Communications Eileen O’Connor sent a statement to the NewHaven Independent.
“An incident occurred at Calhoun College, a residential college on the campus of Yale University, in which a stained glass window was broken by an employee of Yale, resulting in glass falling onto the street and onto a passerby, endangering [her] safety. The employee apologized for his actions and subsequently resigned from the University. The University will not advocate that the employee be prosecuted in connection with this incident and is not seeking restitution.”
In an interview with the Independent, O’Connor said glass fell on the passerby but that the woman was not injured. O’Connor claimed that Menafee’s resignation was not a condition of Yale declining to pursue the charges. Menafee himself declined to comment on that same question.
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