Yale Daily News

of course it didnt, alice. of course it didnt.

Well I'm glad to see Yale's management knows how to exonerate itself.

precisely.

i feel sorry for the guy in the middle of all this. and he still has to go into work, day in, day out, with a manager or co-worker who dont trust him.

this is very sad.

What would profiling even mean in this context? Is anyone saying that the library staff/management actually discussed among themselves that they should report this employee because of his race? If anything occured, it would have been unconscious, i.e., the employee who saw him and assumed drugs may not have made that assumption if Rogers had been white, but he did not consciously make a racial association. This is NOT racial profiling, but it may still call for an apology.

This has absolutely nothing to do with race, it was just bad judgment by the library employee/manager. The library should apologize and tell Rogers that they shouldn't have called the police when they had so little reason to suspect illegal behavior, especially if Rogers probably had been working at the library longer than the manager. The library also shouldn't have given him such a hard time the next day if he wanted to take the day off. I am white and I would have been upset if it had happened to me too. But people really need to stop making everything about race, this just gets old.