Oberlin College pays out $36M to Gibson's Bakery in defamation suit

Well it finally happened. Oberlin College, in Ohio, handed over the $36,000,000 they owed to a local campus bakery after they accused the family-operated business of being racist. [H/T New York Post.]

The bakery won a defamation lawsuit against the school that called them racist after three black students were caught stealing from the business in November 2016.

“We can confirm that all funds have been disbursed and that the family is continuing with the process of rebuilding Gibson’s Bakery for the next generations,” Brandon McHugh, the Gibson family’s attorney, told 3News last Thursday.

“It’s definitely about right and wrong. And to be quite frank, the three students that shoplifted, they admitted their crimes,” added McHugh. “It was Oberlin College that could never admit that what they did was wrong.”

Is it possible that, as a country, the term 'racist' is thrown around a bit too much? Sounds like that's the case.

The bakery was first started when Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden were both in diapers 137 years ago. The store plans to rebuild with the money they were awarded as they had lost much of it after the false accusations and the Fauci-China pandemic hit at the same time.

“I would replace the compressors for the refrigerators and replace the fryers and proofers that we use for our dough. I would pay off the mortgages on my properties that I’ve taken out in the past few years. I’d hire back employees and ramp up production,” Lorna Gibson wrote in a September piece for The Post.

The defamation suit was filed by Gibson's Bakery in 2017 after the shoplifting incident in which one of the perps tried to use a fake ID to purchase a bottle of wine, while swiping two more bottles, according to court documents.

Lorna's son, Allyn, chased the three stooges, Jonathan Aladin, Endia Lawrence and Cecelia Whettstone. A kerfuffle ensued outside the store and when police arrived, the stooges claimed Allyn racially profiled them.

Clueless protestors virtue-signaled and picketed the business after the three stooges claimed they were racially profiled.

An Oberlin College staffer created and distributed flyers claiming, without any proof whatsoever that the family had a “LONG ACCOUNT of RACIAL PROFILING and DISCRIMINATION.” The flyers urged shoppers to boycott Gibson's and business went down the tubes because of the allegations, Gibson said, in spite of the fact that the three stooges admitted in 2017 that they had not been racially profiled and pled guilty to attempted theft.

The Gibsons decided to sue the college because the family’s patriarch, 89-year-old Allyn Sr. “who had dedicated his life to the business, did not want to die being falsely branded a racist,” Lorna Gibson said. 

He died in early 2022.

Oberlin College was initially fined $11 million in 2019 after they were found to have defamed the bakery when the staffer made the flyers. Oberlin tried to appeal the ruling but in September, the Ohio Supreme Court denied the school's bid to hear its appeal and ordered them to pay the Gibson's over $36 million.

“It’s definitely about right and wrong. And to be quite frank, the three students that shoplifted, they admitted their crimes,” McHugh said Thursday. “It was Oberlin College that could never admit that what they did was wrong.”

Oberlin College is the poster child of the Left and wouldn't know a racist, even if they looked in the mirror.

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Oberlin rich kids want a socialist dining hall

Oberlin socialists (aka students) boycotted some of the on-campus dining halls this month in an effort to rid the campus of good food and replace it with socialism food. 

Socialism food is the food grown in a collective like a commune, where everyone pitches in and somebody always screws off and angers the collective. It's human nature.

The brittle snowflakes want to end the school's contract with Bon Appétit Management Company believing they should switch "to a self-management food service model."

They are upset that the company "is doing it for the money," and not for altruistic socialist concerns.

Tuition at Oberlin with a room is $66,870 per year with fees. Let's see their socialist parents fork that kind of dough over to the school times four years. 

But wait, the school is only in it for the money too if they're making a profit so why are the fine young socialists going there?

The Oberlin's Student Labor Action Coalition held a panel discussion with student employees and food-service workers. From the discussions, "worker concerns with Bon Appétit's management surfaced." Students decided to strike to show solidarity after hearing about alleged unfair labor practices, such as a company wanting to make a profit.

Oberlin food supply of the future

Fortunately for the young leftists, they were given sustenance by the Agave Burrito Bar & Tequileria and two college co-ops and didn't die of starvation.

The Marxists decided it best for the school to have an in-house dining system with the college directly hiring its own staff. They actually believed it would lead to better food and a more equitable outcome (aka money and lots of time off) for employees.

Counter cook and cashier Matt Kubach said:

"When we report to somebody, we're reporting to an organization that's a for-profit . . . The rest of the campus is a non-profit, and obviously you've got to make money, but that doesn't necessarily mean you've got to make a ton of money. I kind of feel Bon Appétit wouldn't be here if they weren't making money. I don't think they're here for good will. I think for me, personally . . . what I would like to see in the dining program is to just try to break even--provide fair wages, try to lower the room and board cost. I think if you're cutting out a large chunk of what you're paying Bon Appétit, you can achieve that a little more easily."

And Kubach's father heard the flushing as all his son's tuition money went down the dumper.

An economics of history major; Matt Kubach and most socialists are not. If they were, they'd see socialism never worked and the leaders of socialists countries got rich by capitalism or inheritance.


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Ohio prof fired for anti-Semitic Facebook posts

After "extensive consideration" [and probably fear of BLM reprisals] the Board of Trustees at Oberlin College fired Ass. Prof. of Rhetoric and Composition Joy Karega for anti-Semitic social media rants.

The Ass. Prof. came under fire after a series of anti-Semitic Facebook posts in which she blamed Israel and Jews for 9-11, the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack and the creation of ISIS. She was also planning to make a case that Jews across the world have caused global warming, AIDS and snow in Hawaii. 

For more on this moron, go here.

Marvin Krislov Oberlin's president, initially defended Karega's freedom of speech until he realized that it was going to cause him a problem, and then, after a "comprehensive review" and recommendations from multiple commttees and his input, the Board of Trustees voted to fire Karega for "failing to meet the academic standards" that Oberlin requires of its faculty and students.

"Dr. [really] Karega attacked her colleagues when they challenged inconsistencies in her description of the connection between her postings and her scholarship," the board said in a statement released Wednesday.

The anti-Semitic Karega told FoxNews.com that her social media posts were taken out of their original context and "grossly misrepresented" in published reports. She then went into a rant about how she is the victim and if it wasn't for Jews, this would be a non-issue. 

Conservative columnist Michelle Malkin, an Oberlin alum, called for Karega's firing in March. She said she was glad to see Oberlin finally take action. "Good riddance to Joy Karega," she said. "She was an untenured and unhinged loon whose anti-Semitic diatribes and barely literate social media rantings shamed Oberlin and all of American higher education."

Malkin said that when she studied at Oberlin, she saw similar Israel-bashing and anti-Semitism, and a "stubborn intolerance of diverse political viewpoints."

Ass. Prof. Karega vowed to fight the ruling. She used the "blame them for what they're blaming me for" strategy:

"I will challenge the college's decision and assault on my substantive rights through all the avenues I have available to me. The Oberlin community doesn't deserve this racist, arbitrary attack which has damaged the name and reputation of 'Oberlin.'"

Calling Karega out for what she actually posted and then her denying it, doesn't make it go away. Hopefully she will go away and maybe take up a different occupation. Perhaps she can become a leader in the BDS movement--it's right up her alley.


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