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July 13, 2016

Yale Worker Destroys Racist Stained-Glass Panel: "It's 2016; I Shouldn't Have to Come to Work & See Things Like That"
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And in New Haven, Connecticut, an African-American dishwasher has lost
his job at Yale University after he intentionally smashed a
stained-glass panel that depicted enslaved Africans carrying bales of
cotton. Corey Menafee worked at Yale's residential dorm Calhoun College.
He says he used a broomstick to knock the panel to the floor a month ago
because the image was "racist [and] very degrading." He said, "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.'" Calhoun
College is named after former Vice President John C. Calhoun, one of the
most prominent pro-slavery figures in history. Students have demanded
the building's name be changed, but Yale has refused to rename the
building.


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