Old Stained Glass Windows Are Racist And Must Be Destroyed

According to this, a black dude by the name of Corey Menafee (pictured above) decided to destroy a stained glass panel in one of Yale’s residential dining halls, because it looked like this:

See that?  It depicts two black people carrying bales of cotton, and we can’t have historical references to slavery on college campuses, you guys.  It’s mean and racist and stuff.  HISTORY IS SO MEAN.

Anyway, Corey decided that he was sick and tired of seeing the “racist, very degrading” stained glass panel, so he took it upon himself to grab a broomstick and shatter it. Pieces of the panel landed on a student, but thankfully did not injure her. Immediately after breaking the glass, Corey “went to the bathroom and shaved” to make sure he “was clean-shaven for the authorities.”

Thoughtful.

He was arrested by Yale University Police and is now facing a felony charge.  He’s also been fired from the university.

The dining hall is named after former US VP John C Calhoun, and there’s a growing fury on campus about the fact that references to Calhoun exist, seeing as how he was a slavery advocate.  Because again, y’all, we can’t go around having historical references on campuses.  THINK OF ALL THE SAFE SPACES we’ll have to create for all of the triggered students.

Anyway, the anger about references to Calhoun extend not just to the name of the dining hall, but the paintings, artifacts, and yes – stained glass panels on display.  A couple months ago, Yale’s president decided that Calhoun’s name would stay.

But back to broomstick-wielding Corey Menafee.  Corey says the students’ activism about Calhoun and the references to slavery in the dining hall didn’t motivate him to break the stained glass panel.  He said:

“When I walked into this job, I wasn’t aware of none of that. And then you know, being there, you start hearing different things. I took a broomstick, and it was kind of high, and I climbed up and reached up and broke it. 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.’ I put myself in a position to do it, and did it.”

 

“I didn’t commit any acts of violence against anyone or any living thing. I didn’t be belligerent, or yell. I just broke the windows.”

He didn’t like the property of the university, so he destroyed it.    He just didn’t feel like he should have to see something he didn’t like.  Not in 2016, you guys. And hey, at least he “didn’t be belligerent or yell.”

Wow.

To be fair, Corey now says he regrets breaking the windows:

“It could be termed as civil disobedience. But there’s always better ways of doing things like that than just destroying things. It wasn’t my property, and I had no right to do it.”

Hear that, kids?  Corey’s learned his lesson (I hope.)