Nigerian student studying in Yale University, Lolade
Siyonbola narrates experience in the hands on a white
student
- Lolade revealed how the white student called the
police on her simply because she was having a nap at
the common room
- According to her, this is the second time the white
student called the police on a black student
A Nigerian Lolade Siyonbola studying at the Ivy
League University has shared a discomforting
news of how a race biased student called the
police on her.
Lolade Siyonbola who is a post graduate student
of African Studies at the university narrated how
she was having a nap at the Yale University's
common room when a White student she
identifies as Sarah Braasch called the campus
Police to come and arrest her.
She explained that the encounter wasn't the first
she has experienced from her co-student Sarah.
She wrote on her Facebook wall that Sarah
Braasch, who is studying Philosophy at PhD
level, once called the Police on one of her friends
a few months earlier.
She said the friend had got lost in her building
during a visit. In her post Lolade mentioned that
Sarah has messed with the wrong person as she
vowed to get it straight with her.
She rose up to the racist Sarah Braasch and told
her matter-of-fact, “I deserve to be here. I pay tuition
like everybody else.”
34-year-old Lolade, added that the police asked
her for identification which she didn't provided
saying to them, “I’m not going to justify my existence
here.”
“I really don’t know if there’s a justification for you
actually being in the building,” she said to the officers,
after establishing her enrollment.
Lolade also unlocked her dormitory room door in
front of the officers to show she lived there after
they insisted on seeing her ID.
“We’re in a Yale building and we need to make sure that
you belong here,” one officer said in the video.
The officers said the encounter lasted longer
than expected because Lolade’s name appeared
differently in the school’s database.
The news of the racial profiling suffered by her
spread throughout the campus and in reaction
the dean of Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences, Lynn Cooley, said in an email to
students on Tuesday, 8 May, “Incidents like that of
last night remind us of the continued work needed to make
Yale a truly inclusive place.''
Siyonbola narrates experience in the hands on a white
student
- Lolade revealed how the white student called the
police on her simply because she was having a nap at
the common room
- According to her, this is the second time the white
student called the police on a black student
A Nigerian Lolade Siyonbola studying at the Ivy
League University has shared a discomforting
news of how a race biased student called the
police on her.
Lolade Siyonbola who is a post graduate student
of African Studies at the university narrated how
she was having a nap at the Yale University's
common room when a White student she
identifies as Sarah Braasch called the campus
Police to come and arrest her.
She explained that the encounter wasn't the first
she has experienced from her co-student Sarah.
She wrote on her Facebook wall that Sarah
Braasch, who is studying Philosophy at PhD
level, once called the Police on one of her friends
a few months earlier.
She said the friend had got lost in her building
during a visit. In her post Lolade mentioned that
Sarah has messed with the wrong person as she
vowed to get it straight with her.
She rose up to the racist Sarah Braasch and told
her matter-of-fact, “I deserve to be here. I pay tuition
like everybody else.”
34-year-old Lolade, added that the police asked
her for identification which she didn't provided
saying to them, “I’m not going to justify my existence
here.”
“I really don’t know if there’s a justification for you
actually being in the building,” she said to the officers,
after establishing her enrollment.
Lolade also unlocked her dormitory room door in
front of the officers to show she lived there after
they insisted on seeing her ID.
“We’re in a Yale building and we need to make sure that
you belong here,” one officer said in the video.
The officers said the encounter lasted longer
than expected because Lolade’s name appeared
differently in the school’s database.
The news of the racial profiling suffered by her
spread throughout the campus and in reaction
the dean of Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences, Lynn Cooley, said in an email to
students on Tuesday, 8 May, “Incidents like that of
last night remind us of the continued work needed to make
Yale a truly inclusive place.''
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