A family-owned bakery in Ohio is celebrating a big win over a nearby college. Gibson’s Bakery sued Oberlin College, claiming the school supported student demonstrations accusing the bakery of racial profiling and discrimination. Straight Arrow News contributor Star Parker believes this case is representative of the liberal dogma taking hold on campuses nationwide.
Oberlin College lost the case filed against them and now must pay $33 million in punitive damages and $11 million in compensatory damages to Gibson Bakery.
In brief, what happened? Well a black student from Oberlin was chased down by the son of the store’s owner because he knew that he had shoplifted a bottle of wine. The student, and two of his friends who then became involved in this case, were arrested by the police and all subsequently pleaded guilty. They even said it wasn’t about race. They were stealing and they said, “We’re caught.”
But the incident set off student demonstrations outside this “mom and pop” bakery, started by David Gibson–the great-grandfather, in 1885 he started this business.
The owners–they’ve been pillars of the community, very involved in the university–but they were branded because of this incident as racists and flyers were handed out claiming that the store had a history of “racial profiling and discrimination.”
Some members of Oberlin faculty were directly involved in the onslaught of protests, harassments, intimidations against the bakery brought on by its students.
Oberlin is now on the line for millions of dollars in damages because its own school administrators are so self-absorbed in their own liberal dogma that they can no longer think clearly. They can’t be honest or objective.
In a study published in 2020 by the National Association of Scholars, 12,372 college and university faculty were surveyed in this study regarding their political affiliation.
What did they find?
Well over the full sample, 8.4 were registered Democrats to each registered Republican. At Oberlin College this ratio was 10.8 to 1.
Given that the whole population of America, the ratio of those identifying as Democrat to Republican, is about 1 to 1, we get a picture of the incredibly distorted reality that has captured our higher education and universities.
The nation is indebted to the Gibson family for refusing to be intimidated by left-wing dogmatists at Oberlin and all over the country and for standing hard and fast for what is true.
