{"id":1781105,"date":"2022-12-20T08:47:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T13:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1781105"},"modified":"2022-12-20T08:47:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T13:47:32","slug":"for-falsely-accusing-bakery-of-racism-oberlin-college-finally-coughs-up-36m-settlement-but-no-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/for-falsely-accusing-bakery-of-racism-oberlin-college-finally-coughs-up-36m-settlement-but-no-apology\/","title":{"rendered":"For Falsely Accusing Bakery Of Racism, Oberlin College Finally Coughs Up $36M Settlement But No Apology"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffor-falsely-accusing-bakery-of-racism-oberlin-college-finally-coughs-up-36m-settlement-but-no-apology%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1781105&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>After six years, justice \u2014 or some version of it \u2014 has finally been served for Gibson\u2019s Bakery in Oberlin, Ohio. After having its name dragged through the mud for alleged racism because it tried to hold an admitted shoplifter accountable for his crime, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gibsonbakery.com\/our-heritage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">almost 140-year-old family business<\/a> last week received a $36.6 million settlement from a defamation suit it filed against Oberlin College in 2017. <\/p>\n<p>The case was appealed all the way to the Ohio Supreme Court, resulting in the upholding of a 2019 judgment against the school when the court declined to hear Oberlin College\u2019s appeal. But the payout wasn\u2019t immediate. It took two-and-a-half more months and an embarrassing op-ed from one of the plaintiffs before Oberlin was shamed into coughing up the money.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released by Oberlin in September of this year, the college said, \u201cWe are disappointed by the Court\u2019s decision. However, this does not diminish our respect for the law and the integrity of our legal system. This matter has been painful for everyone. We hope that the end of the litigation will begin the healing of our entire community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How magnanimous. There wouldn\u2019t be any need for healing if not for Oberlin College\u2019s role in fueling rather than helping to put out the fire that began in front of Gibson\u2019s Bakery on Nov. 9, 2016. One day earlier, on Nov. 8, Donald Trump had won his bid for the White House. Within hours, protests were breaking out in cities around the United States, with some quickly turning violent.<\/p>\n<p>In Oberlin, around 5 p.m. on Nov. 9, Oberlin College student Jonathan Aladin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11195113\/Oberlin-College-pays-36-5m-owes-Ohio-bakery-defamed-racism-claims.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stole a bottle of wine<\/a> from Gibson\u2019s Bakery and was pursued out of the store and down the street by Allyn Gibson Jr., son of David and Lorna Gibson, who along with David\u2019s father, Allyn Sr., owned and ran the bakery. Two female friends of Aladin got involved in the altercation, which ended with Allyn being beaten and the three students being arrested. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Within hours, a student-organized campaign alleging racial profiling and racism by the bakery called for a protest and boycott. The next morning, Oberlin College Dean of Students Meredith Raimondo got involved, attending and speaking at the protest, and on Nov. 14, the college decided to stop placing daily orders with the bakery \u2014 something it had been doing for years. In an op-ed penned in September of this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/will-i-ever-see-the-36-million-oberlin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lorna Gibson described the ordeal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>The school put out a statement that implied that this wasn\u2019t an isolated incident. The school\u2019s student senate passed a resolution urging the school to cut ties with us, which was posted in a display case at the student center. Our business from the students themselves and administrators \u2014 we have a small grocery store and sell beer and wine in addition to our pastries and candies \u2014 dried up completely. And the students kept showing up to protest.<\/p>\n<p>David met with the President of the school, along with other<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some version of justice has finally been served for Gibson\u2019s Bakery in Oberlin, Ohio, but it\u2019s clear where the power lies in this country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":736,"featured_media":1781108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[10523,4262,5447,8251,4023,10524,4305,6919,5321,8256,5243,9811],"class_list":["post-1781105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-36m","tag-accusing","tag-apology","tag-bakery","tag-college","tag-coughs","tag-falsely","tag-federalist","tag-finally","tag-oberlin","tag-racism","tag-settlement"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/736"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1781108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}