“We need to make sure that you belong here,” a female officer says in the longer video.

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Her name is Lolade Siyonbola. She belongs there.

#IBelongHere https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/09/nyregion/yale-black-student-nap.html

Summary: Black grad student sleeps in dorm common room, white student doesn’t think she should be there and calls the police. Cops come, she unlocks the door to her own room and they still don’t believe she’s where she’s supposed to be. She gives them her ID.

“This incident and others recently reported to me underscore that we have work to do to make Yale not only excellent but also inclusive,” Ms. Goff-Crews said.

Ms. Goff-Crews is the VP of Student Life.

#IBelongHere

First: white people, can you please stop calling the police on black and non-black people of color while we are doing the same things you all do on a daily basis? Napping, moving our stuff, going on a school visit, sitting in Starbucks. We’re tired.

Second, “it’s procedure”? Well, maybe you all should reconsider that procedure. Especially after a student unlocks the door to their room.

Third, what is that response from Yale? It’s not a surprise, but it is a problem.

Harvard had a similar response after the police punched a black student while arresting him.

These schools say they want “diversity” but make minimal efforts to make the school a space for black and non-black PoC students.

#IBelongHere

It’s New England Liberal racism. It’s the kind that sets unofficial “quotas,” talks about black people and people of color in abstract ways, teaches 50 shades of white American and European history, and has the nerve to ask if you belong there. #IBelongHere

I don’t discourage black students from coming to Harvard. But I would warn them that this place can feel like a desert sometimes. And if you made it here, you didn’t take someone’s place. Despite what some people may say. #IBelongHere