I don't know why you think it doesn't matter, since if the main reason he was calling was because of the person's race, then it seems odd he wouldn't have mentioned it. But regardless, "the dispatcher's report" did not state "a black man was lying on the couch."
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Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @speechboy71
It establishes that he knew she was Black when he decided she was "suspicious" and "out-of-place." Nobody comes right out and says, "I called because there was a Black person on the couch."
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Replying to @beyerstein @JamesSurowiecki
But she was suspicious and out-of-place. That's why he called security
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I actually think an important part of the story is that the janitor thought "he" was suspicious and out of place, because he believed it was a man in a dorm in a women's college.
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The report says that staff were told to call security! That's what he did.
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The Building Supervisor, his boss, said that that staff had the option of approaching the person or at least getting a look at them before deciding they were "suspicious." The janitor chose not to do that.
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At the very least, the janitor jumped to a very hasty conclusion that this Black person was suspicious simply because were in a room he didn't expect them to be in.
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Replying to @beyerstein @JamesSurowiecki
Again, you're jumping to that conclusion! I don't know why this janitor did what he did but it takes an incredible leap - and ignoring many other explanations - to argue that he did this out of racial bias
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I don't know if you spend much time around college campuses but in my experience students hang out a lot in marginal places to get quiet time. To automatically assume someone is out of place without determining if they are a student seems very, very, very odd.
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It was during the summer, in a closed dorm, next to a dining area that was being reserved for actual schoolchildren. The point I took from the article was that a student would in fact be out of place in that context.
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I see students in summer time hanging out at odd places in the campus all the time. That's what students do. It's so weird to make hanging out while black into pathological behavior.
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I mean, the guy called security, security had a brief conversation with her. What's the big deal?
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