Racism: Nigerian Student Tongue Lashes White Girl Over Comment

A Nigerian student, by the name Lolade Siyonbola, who is pursuing her postgraduate studies at the Yale University, United States has drawn attention to an embarrassing racial profiling she suffered from a fellow white student who phoned she Police on her, because she is black.

The Nigerian student stated that she was taking a nap in the students’ common room when a White student she identifies as Sarah Braasch called the campus Police to come and arrest her.

That encounter, obviously, wasn’t Lolade’s first with the racially biased Sarah Braasch.

On her Facebook wall, Lolade narrates that Sarah Braasch, who is studying Philosophy at PhD level, once called the Police on one of her (Lolade) friends a few months earlier.

She said the friend had got lost in her (Lolade’s) building, apparently when the friend paid her a visit.

But, if Sarah Braasch thought she could embarrass Lolade, she made a mistake, as Lolade vows, “Today, she messed again — with the wrong one.”

Lolade rose up to the racist Sarah Braasch and told her matter-of-fact, “I deserve to be here. I pay tuition like everybody else.”

The 34-year-old Lolade, a postgraduate student of African studies, says the Police asked her for identification, which she provided, noting, “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.

In reaction, the dean of Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Lynn Cooley, said in an email to students on Tuesday: “Incidents like that of last night remind us of the continued work needed to make Yale a truly inclusive place.”

Source: Information Nigeria

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