A ‘woke’ liberal arts college in Ohio is in a lot of financial hot water. After Oberlin College falsely accused a family-run Ohio bakery of racism, the shop was awarded $36 million in damages, and the owner called the payout \u201cbittersweet.” After the liberal arts school finally forked over the settlement this month for the November 2016 incident, Lorna Gibson, of Gibson\u2019s Bakery, appeared on \u201cFox & Friends Weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is definitely bittersweet,\u201d said Gibson on the Fox News show. \u201cIt took a tremendous toll. A lot of stress, a lot of financial toll. It definitely hit us hard,\u201d said the bakery owner. Sadly, as the lengthy legal battle over the incident played out, both Gibson\u2019s father and husband died, the New York Post reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n Eventually, the bakery won its defamation suit against Oberlin. The whole issue started when three African-American students were caught shoplifting wine and claimed the store racially profiled them. The students were then chased out of the bakery by Gibson\u2019s son, Allyn, and a scuffle ensued. The police then arrived, and the three students claimed Allyn racially profiled and assaulted them.<\/p>\n Things then got even worse for Gibson, as soon after, protesters gathered outside the bakery and demanded a boycott of its products. It was claimed by an Oberlin College staffer that the family had a \u201clong account of racial profiling and discrimination\u201d and disturbed fliers calling for the boycott.<\/p>\n In September, Gibson wrote in a piece for The Post: \u201cA week after the incident, the school canceled all of our standing orders\u2026The school put out a statement that implied that this wasn\u2019t an isolated incident.\u201d \u201cOur business from the students themselves and administrators\u2026 dried up completely. And the students kept showing up to protest.\u201d wrote Gibson.<\/p>\n Even though it was a win on paper for the family and its bakery, as the shoplifting students eventually pleaded guilty to attempted theft, the bakery itself lost a lot of business and suffered reputational damage, the family said.<\/p>\n In order to rebuild the store, they plan to use the money they have gotten from the settlement. \u201cThis should\u2019ve really been a teaching moment for the college\u2026 and the students learned, they admitted their guilt, they apologized and went forward,\u201d Gibson\u2019s attorney Lee Plakas said. \u201cThe college still doesn\u2019t get it,\u201d added Plakas. \u201cThe teachers refused to be taught or accept the lesson,\u201d the attorney concluded.<\/p>\n Gibson hopes the case teaches people not to jump to conclusions, as she says. \u201cI just hope that if incidents occur that people step back and try to find out what really happened and not jump to conclusions or listen to just a few to escalate something,\u201d concluded Gibson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A ‘woke’ liberal arts college in Ohio is in a lot of financial hot water. After Oberlin College falsely accused a family-run Ohio bakery of racism, the shop was awarded $36 million in damages, and the owner called the payout \u201cbittersweet.” After the liberal arts school finally forked over the settlement this month for the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":25607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}