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    Oberlin College Pays More than $36 Million for Accusing Bakery of Racism

    Oberlin College in Ohio paid a local bakery a more than $36 million judgment for defaming them after a 2016 incident at the business.

    "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, attorney for Gibson's Bakery in Oberlin told*Cleveland's WKYC 3News*on Thursday.

    The lawsuit and damages award came after a 2016 incident where the bakery co-owner's son, Allyn Gibson, chased and tackled a Black male Oberlin College student suspected of stealing a bottle of wine from the business.

    "This is a great day for Gibson's Bakery," said national radio host Todd Starnes. "And it's a bad day for every professional race agitator in the nation. The most effective way to deal with this nationwide scourge is to fight back in the courts."

    According to the WKYC report, two Black female students accompanying the male tried to intervene and all three were arrested by police and later pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges in the case.

    The incident led to protests outside of the bakery with flyers handed out by a college vice president and a dean of students claiming the business was racist and included a resolution to that effect from the student senate of the school which was emailed to all students.

    The report said the school also banned its food service provider from using the bakery.

    The bakery sued the school for defamation in 2017 and won the case in 2019, with a Lorain County jury awarding the business $44 million in compensatory and punitive damages.

    "We lost so much of the business after the protests that we weren't getting the business," co-owner Lorna Gibson told the station. "And so, I couldn't afford to keep the shelves filled. And then when the pandemic hit, it was like the perfect storm that didn't help either."

    That amount was later lowered to $25 million and was upheld in September by the Ohio Supreme Court, the report said.

    "We are disappointed by the Court's decision. However, this does not diminish our respect for the law and the integrity of our legal system," Oberlin College stated in a news release to the news outlet after the court's decision. "This matter has been painful for everyone. We hope that the end of the litigation will begin the healing of our entire community."

    The Gibson father and son who started the business both passed away before the payment was made, but Lorna Gibson said the business will continue on.

    "We've always been here," she said in the report. "We've always treated everybody properly and that's all we just wanted. That's all we wanted from the start just to continue on our lives and keep the store going."

    JUSTICE! Oberlin College Pays More than $36 Million for Accusing Bakery of Racism - Todd Starnes

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    That was such an evil move on the part of the college, I'm glad they are finally paying up.

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    Soros probably kicked in to help with the payment. Or any other hellbound organization.

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    For those that don't know Charles Finney was one of the founders of Oberlin. I'm sure he could never imagine in his wildest imagination what his college would turn into.

    Earlier in the summer, a friend of mine told me that an Oberlin tour guide had told them in 2018 that 80% of the Oberlin student body identified as queer, and 15% as non-binary. To be completely transparent, when I told that to a gathering of people studying on the Latinx House patio late on a school night in early June, two people said at once, "Wait, really? Are you sure it's not more than that?"

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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    For those that don't know Charles Finney was one of the founders of Oberlin. I'm sure he could never imagine in his wildest imagination what his college would turn into.
    Seems like the devil hated Finney so much they made a huge effort to destroy Oberlin after his death

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    Interesting history. How things have changed!


    "'Oberlin' was an idea before it was a place."[13]: 12  It began in revelation and dreams: Yankees' motivation to emigrate west, attempting perfection in God's eyes, "educating a missionary army of Christian soldiers to save the world and inaugurate God's government on earth, and the radical notion that slavery was America's most horrendous sin that should be instantly repented of and immediately brought to an end."[13]: 12  Its immediate background was the wave of Christian revivals in western New York State, in which Charles Finney was very much involved.

    "Oberlin was the offspring of the revivals of 1830, '31, and '32."[14]: 12  Oberlin founder John Jay Shipherd was an admirer of Finney, and visited him in Rochester, New York, when en route to Ohio for the first time. Finney invited Shipherd to stay with him as an assistant, but Shipherd "felt that he had his own important part to play in bringing on the millennium, God's triumphant reign on Earth. Finney's desires were one thing, but Shipherd believed that the Lord's work for him lay farther west." Shipherd attempted to convince Finney to accompany him west, which he did in 1835.[15]: 13–14 

    Oberlin was to be a pious, simple-living community in a sparsely populated area, of which the school, training ministers and missionaries, would be the centerpiece. The Oberlin Collegiate Institute was founded in 1833 by Shipherd and another Presbyterian minister, Philo Stewart,[16] "formerly a missionary among the Cherokees in Mississippi, and at that time residing in Mr. Shipherd's family,"[17]: Int. 37  who was studying Divinity with Shipherd.[18]: 281  The institute was built on 500 acres (2.0 km2) of land donated by Titus Street, founder of Streetsboro, Ohio, and Samuel Hughes,[19]: 91, 94  who lived in Connecticut.

    Shipherd and Stewert named their project after Alsatian minister Jean-Frédéric Oberlin, about whom a book had just been published,[20] which Stewart was reading to Shipherd.[18]: 281  Oberlin had brought social Christianity to an isolated region of France, just as they hoped to bring to the remote Western Reserve region of northeastern Ohio.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Valiant Woman View Post
    Interesting history. How things have changed!


    "'Oberlin' was an idea before it was a place."[13]: 12  It began in revelation and dreams: Yankees' motivation to emigrate west, attempting perfection in God's eyes, "educating a missionary army of Christian soldiers to save the world and inaugurate God's government on earth, and the radical notion that slavery was America's most horrendous sin that should be instantly repented of and immediately brought to an end."[13]: 12  Its immediate background was the wave of Christian revivals in western New York State, in which Charles Finney was very much involved.

    "Oberlin was the offspring of the revivals of 1830, '31, and '32."[14]: 12  Oberlin founder John Jay Shipherd was an admirer of Finney, and visited him in Rochester, New York, when en route to Ohio for the first time. Finney invited Shipherd to stay with him as an assistant, but Shipherd "felt that he had his own important part to play in bringing on the millennium, God's triumphant reign on Earth. Finney's desires were one thing, but Shipherd believed that the Lord's work for him lay farther west." Shipherd attempted to convince Finney to accompany him west, which he did in 1835.[15]: 13–14 

    Oberlin was to be a pious, simple-living community in a sparsely populated area, of which the school, training ministers and missionaries, would be the centerpiece. The Oberlin Collegiate Institute was founded in 1833 by Shipherd and another Presbyterian minister, Philo Stewart,[16] "formerly a missionary among the Cherokees in Mississippi, and at that time residing in Mr. Shipherd's family,"[17]: Int. 37  who was studying Divinity with Shipherd.[18]: 281  The institute was built on 500 acres (2.0 km2) of land donated by Titus Street, founder of Streetsboro, Ohio, and Samuel Hughes,[19]: 91, 94  who lived in Connecticut.

    Shipherd and Stewert named their project after Alsatian minister Jean-Frédéric Oberlin, about whom a book had just been published,[20] which Stewart was reading to Shipherd.[18]: 281  Oberlin had brought social Christianity to an isolated region of France, just as they hoped to bring to the remote Western Reserve region of northeastern Ohio.

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    In Finney's Memoirs he talks extensively about going to teach there and events that took place. The links are from his 'autobiography' when is an edited version until a couple of guys in '89 published his memoirs with all the edited out copy restored. There are a few more chapters with Oberlin in the title.

    The MEMOIRS of Charles G. Finney--Chap 24--Early Labors in Oberlin

    The MEMOIRS of Charles G. Finney--Chap 25--Matters at Oberlin

    The MEMOIRS of Charles G. Finney--Chap 36--Return to Oberlin and a Glorious Revival Here

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