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Slack.com slash DHQ. Just in time for Christmas, we have got the feel-good story of the year.

Oberlin College has finally forked over $36 million to Gibson's bakery, a local shop that

the college tried to destroy with a baseless charge of racism back in 2016. A lot of people

don't remember this. I actually wrote about it in my book Speechless Controlling Words

of Controlling Minds. Six years ago, there we go. Six years ago, a black Oberlin College

undergrad named Jonathan Alladin tried to pass a fake ID at Gibson's to buy a bottle

of wine. Allen Gibson, who's a son and grandson of the owners, rejected the fake ID and noticed

that the student had hidden two other bottles in his coat. At which point Gibson said he

was calling the cops and raised his phone to take a picture of the would-be thief. The

student then smacked Gibson's phone away, smacked the guy in the face, and assaulted the

store owner, David Gibson. When Gibson chased the student out of the store, a couple other

students joined in. By the time the cops got there, all three students had Gibson on

the ground and were punching and kicking him. This seems like an open and shut case, right?

You throw the criminal kids in prison and you make them apologize to the store owner

that they tried to rob. But we're not talking about a normal community. We're talking about

Oberlin College. And we're talking about a case of a white shop owner and black thieves,

which meant that the students had to be in the right and the shop owner had to be in the

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