The manager of an Ohio bakery at the heart of a racism row with a nearby woke college has urged the institute to settle its multimillion dollar legal debt before the 137-year-old business goes broke and shutters for the last time.
Lorna Gibson, widow of the former owner of Gibson’s bakery, wants Oberlin College to cough up $36 million owed after losing its defamation case over a shoplifting incident at the store involving three black students in November 2016.
Her comments in an opinion article follow the Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday saying it would not take up an appeal of a $25 million judgment against the liberal arts college in Oberlin, southwest of Cleveland.
The discredited allegations of racism over the shoplifting incident destroyed a once-thriving business, Lorna Gibson wrote. The ‘shelves are bare’, it has only a trickle of customers, staff have been laid off and the family, which is white, is deep in debt.
‘If I got the money from the college, I wouldn’t buy a house, or go on vacation, or leave Ohio. I would replace the compressors for the refrigerators and replace the fryers and proofers that we use for our dough,’ she wrote.
‘If the money doesn’t come through within the next couple of months, I’ll be forced to declare bankruptcy and shut the doors of Gibson’s for good.’
The 137-year-old Gibson's Bakery in Oberlin, Ohio, will shutter unless nearby Oberlin College pays its multimillion dollar legal debt after losing a libel suit over false claims of racism
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