Vandy Students Protest Hate Crime. Turns Out The Story Was Dog Crap.

Whoops. The day after a couple of hundred protesters held a protest against racism so they wouldn’t feel left out of the wave triggered by the alleged racist incidents at the University of Missouri, they found a bag of dog poop in the doorsteps of the black cultural center. Their hysterical reaction posted online entailed bewailing the racism of the alleged poop-leaver:

The Hidden Dores team is appalled to announce that our demonstration yesterday was met this morning with a vile act. This morning someone left a bag of feces on the porch of Vanderbilt University’s Black Cultural Center. The center has served as the nexus of many aspects of Black life on Vanderbilt’s campus since it’s inception 31 years ago. The violation of a place that in many ways is the sole home for Black students is deplorable. As many of us sit in grief, recognize that these types of actions are what we speak of when we note the reality of exclusion and isolation of students of color and specifically Black students on our campus. This act has hurt many and will not be received lightly. We will not allow for the desecration of the place we call home.

Wow. “Sit in grief.” The post went viral, even triggering an investigation by university police…. but wait! That dog was not left as a racist message; the person who left the poop wouldn’t know the difference for one salient reason:

She’s blind.

The young female student has a seeing-eye dog that pooped, leaving the car trying to find a trash can. When she failed to find one, she left the poop on the steps of the black center. She posted her version of events on Facebook. Some of the post read:

I would like to inform everyone on this campus that no racial threat occurred. I am a blind student on this campus with a guide dog. I was meeting with a group last night to go over our debate for one of my sociology classes. My dog did her business outside on the grass and I picked it up and put it in a bag like always…I did not want to bring the feces inside and make the building smell, so I left it outside by the door…Everyone is going to point me out now as the blind girl who left her dog feces by the black cultural center. I am sorry that I do not know where all the trash cans are on main campus…The Vanderbilt police were obviously able to look at cameras and figure out that it was Marley and I because I got a call asking if I left her feces outside of the door.

Then she trumped the black students’ claim of racism by adding, “This action of posting a post like this on facebook for everyone to see before investigation isolated and excluded blind people on this campus who also face discrimination.”

“Everyone is going to point me out now as the blind girl who left her dog feces by the black cultural center. I am sorry that I do not know where all the trash cans are on main campus.”

Stephanie Zundel

The black students deleted their accusation, issuing an apology that read:

It has recently come to our attention that we were absolutely misinformed about a situation that happened this morning at Vanderbilt’s Black Cultural Center, where a black bag filled with fecal matter was left at the front doorstep of the place that feels most like home to many Black students on campus. We have discovered that the fecal matter was not left at the BCC by a vindictive member of this community. A VUPD report released at 11:26pm today reads: “The investigation found that the bag was inadvertently left by an individual with a service dog who was authorized to be in the building, who could not find a trashcan near the entrance, and did not want to take the bag inside.” Given the recent elevation in polarization on this campus in the aftermath of our silent protest this Monday, evidenced by tough personal exchanges and anonymous targeted posts, it was too easy for us to believe that a member of our community would stoop low enough to maliciously leave fecal matter at the Black Cultural Center. Nonetheless, we apologize to the Vanderbilt community for jumping to conclusions and for any personal trauma caused by the quick escalation of this situation. We have personally contacted Stephanie Zundel and apologized for our reaction to the nature of this incident. At this moment, we recognize that the needs of students with disabilities on this campus are also often marginalized, and there are improvements to be made to make the perfect Vanderbilt experience accessible for all of its students. In an effort to contain the situation, the original post has been deleted at this time.

“Absolutely misinformed” Blame-shifting, the hobby of the left, raised again by infantile college students.