On Friday, university student Dossou Nidaye bumped heads with a campus police officer, upset that a visiting high school boy wore a MAGA hat, as reported by the campus newspaper, The Griffon News.
A video of Dossou’s conversation with the officer was published by KMBC 9 News. “It is a symbol of white supremacy. I don’t want to see that,” she said. “I wake up every day and I see my people getting killed — take that s*** off,” she said. “Let’s all start wearing turbans and go to class and see how long it takes for them to come and attack us.”
According to The Griffon News, the student from North Platte High School in Dearborn wore the MAGA hat to decorate a venue at Missouri Western, the location of his Saturday prom. Dossou saw the teen in the Blum Student Union and asked why he was wearing it. The boy apologized and took off the hat, but stood his ground when an older man got involved.
Nidaye and her friend Andrea Gordon made a Facebook video to address the details. “A kid walked in with his hat…and I looked around and it was mostly African-Americans at the time,” said Nidaye. “And we all felt uncomfortable…So I went up to him, peacefully, and I said, ‘Hey, why are you wearing that hat? Why do you think it’s OK to wear it on this campus?’”
According to Nidaye, the man told her, ‘Shut up,’ then told the teen, ‘Don’t listen to her. Put it back on.’ The boy allegedly said, “Shut the f*** up,” and “Leave me alone, I’m 17. I’m just here for prom.”
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Posted by Andrea Gordon on Friday, March 29, 2019