Hate Crime Hoax: Outrageously Racist Graffiti Sparked Days Of Protests.
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The absurdity of the messages should have been the first hint that
these were not written by someone who genuinely believed them.
Graffiti messages that included phrases like “white power” and “let’s
kill all N*****s on campus” and that sparked days of protest at Albion
College in Michigan were actually written by a black student, MLive
reported.
On April 5, students from the college started tweeting about the
dozen-or-so “racist incidents” that had occurred the previous week,
referring to the messages. As The Post Millennial reported, a since-
deleted tweet from one student included photos of the graffiti, calling
the messages “blatant racism.”
The messages included phrases such as “white lives matter”, “666” atop
a Star of David, and references to the Klu Klux Klan, among others.
Discovery of the messages prompted days of protests from students, who boycotted classes in the name of racial justice.
On April 6, after reviewing campus security footage, a 21-year-old
black male student was brought in for questioning by the Albion
Department of Public Safety. The student reportedly admitted to writing
most of the graffiti, with the surveillance footage supporting his
statements. Police Chief Scott Kipp told MLive that the student was
released after questioning and that after the department has completed
its investigation, the Calhoun County Prosecutor’s Office will
determine if any charges should be filed related to the incident.
Charges are unlikely in such a case, as fears of being called racist
abound even when a student has committed a hate crime hoax.
On Twitter, Albion College said the student was acting alone, but
rather than providing a teachable lesson to students about committing
such hoaxes, the school demurred, talking about “a significant history
of racial pain and trauma on campus.” The tweets suggested the school
needed to do more to fight racism, even though the charges of racism
were false.
Further, the school did not acknowledge that the student who wrote the
racist and anti-Semitic messages was black, allowing those who did not
read news articles to assume the perpetrator was indeed a racist white
person.
“We know the acts of racism that have occurred this week are not about
one particular person or one particular incident. We know that there is
a significant history of racial pain and trauma on campus and we are
taking action to repair our community,” the school tweeted. “We will
change and heal together as a community, because we are committed to
doing the work.”
This incident is merely the latest in a long list of examples where
claims of racism – or sexism – on campus have turned out to be hoaxes.
In November 2020, The Daily Wire reported that a black teenager who
claimed to have found racist messages on his SUV had written the
messages himself. Earlier that year, another student who claimed to
have found racist messages on their vehicle was also determined to be
the culprit.
It’s not just students who commit the hoaxes. An Oregon politician
claimed he received a racist letter, but it was determined he wrote the
letter to himself.
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