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Hate crime hoax at Ole Miss (Michelle Malkin)
TownHall.com ^ | 12/18/02 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 12/17/2002 9:19:36 PM PST by kattracks

A terrible racial incident took place at Trent Lott's alma mater last month. But you won't hear about it from Dan Rather or Time magazine or The Washington Post or the NAACP.

That's because what happened at the University of Mississippi in the early morning hours of Nov. 6 has all the markings of a fake hate crime: An apparent racial hoax committed by black students against black students, but blamed on whites -- until the suspects were nabbed last week.

Three black freshmen were accused by the college of scrawling racist graffiti on the doors of two other black students in the Kincannon residence hall on the Oxford campus. Among the hateful epithets: "F-----g N----r" and "F-----g Hoe N----r." Also left on walls and doors spanning three floors of the dorm: A tree with a noose and hanging stick figure and vulgar references to genitalia drawn in blue window chalk.

The financial damage was estimated at roughly $600. But the cultural and psychological damage caused by such crude and twisted acts of Tawana Brawleyism is inestimable. The element of racial animus cloaks the hate crime hoax with a false sense of legitimacy. It's a manipulative attempt to exploit old tensions and deflect suspicion from the actual perpetrators.

At the time the racist vandalism appeared, Ole Miss was commemorating the 40th anniversary of desegregation of its classrooms. Local and national observers immediately assumed the vandals were white.

Black students organized a "Say No to Racism" march and demanded more protection against white-on-black harassment. They blasted the school's president for not apologizing quickly enough for the racial slurs. The school's "Minority Affairs" director demanded that the university establish "programs and procedures" to ensure racial sensitivity and prevent hate crimes. The "Institute for Racial Reconciliation" and the "Committee On Sensitivity and Respect" convened meetings. Activists called for criminally prosecuting the perpetrators under state felony laws or federal hate crime statutes.

But now that the race of the suspects has been revealed, some are seeking to minimize the crime as a "prank." The college will not be bringing criminal charges against the trio. Instead, each suspect faces charges involving five violations of the student code of conduct -- not only for the racially explosive vandalism, but also for allegedly making false and misleading statements to investigators.

That's right. It wasn't enough for these accused sickos to adopt racial terror tactics, destroy property, cast false suspicion on others, and cast doubt on all bona fide victims of such perfidy. They apparently tried to lie their way out of it, too.

The Daily Mississippian student newspaper noted that an "irritated Chancellor Robert Khayat said the entire situation was 'regrettable,' but it taught the university community that no members 'should engage in abusive behavior' and 'before we jump to conclusions and start condemning groups of people, we should know what happened.'"

All well and good, but why allow a double standard of justice to prevail? If the attackers had been white, they faced possible federal prison time. Because the suspects are black, the most serious consequence they face is expulsion. Welcome to equal treatment under the law, 2002-style.

Where is the uproar over the hoaxers' callous use of lynching imagery and flagrant exploitation of the N-word -- at Ole Miss of all places? And where is the national press on this matter? Fake hate crimes are an abhorrently common phenomenon on modern college campuses, where race-consciousness reigns in such a poisonous way that it would make integrationists weep. "Students of color" are herded into separate dorms, separate departments, and separate graduation ceremonies.

Segregation is back all right. But while the media elite's crack reporters are busy rummaging through the dustbins of old history in an effort to paint all conservatives as racially insensitive relics, they continue to ignore one of the outrageous race scandals of the 21st century: how the young beneficiaries of the civil rights movement are squandering and desecrating its legacy of equal respect and justice for all.

©2002 Creators Syndicate, Inc.

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1 posted on 12/17/2002 9:19:36 PM PST by kattracks
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To: kattracks; dennisw; SJackson; Alouette; mhking
M. Malkin, great as always.
2 posted on 12/17/2002 9:25:07 PM PST by TopQuark
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To: Sabertooth; madfly
ping
3 posted on 12/17/2002 9:26:56 PM PST by gubamyster
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To: TopQuark
bump for the beautiful Michelle
4 posted on 12/17/2002 9:28:57 PM PST by mcenedo
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To: kattracks
Black students organized a "Say No to Racism" march and demanded more protection against white-on-black harassment. They blasted the school's president for not apologizing quickly enough for the racial slurs. The school's "Minority Affairs" director demanded that the university establish "programs and procedures" to ensure racial sensitivity and prevent hate crimes. The "Institute for Racial Reconciliation" and the "Committee On Sensitivity and Respect" convened meetings. Activists called for criminally prosecuting the perpetrators under state felony laws or federal hate crime statutes.

This is what I would like to see happen next:

White students organized a "Say No to Racism" march and demanded more protection against black-on-white harassment. They blasted the school's president for not apologizing quickly enough for the racial slurs. The school's "Minority Affairs" director demanded that the university establish "programs and procedures" to ensure racial sensitivity and prevent hate crimes. The "Institute for Racial Reconciliation" and the "Committee On Sensitivity and Respect" convened meetings. Activists called for criminally prosecuting the perpetrators under state felony laws or federal hate crime statutes.

5 posted on 12/17/2002 9:30:18 PM PST by fellowpatriot
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To: kattracks
Oops, it was "just" a "black on black" crime. Move along.
6 posted on 12/17/2002 9:30:21 PM PST by Lord Basil
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To: TopQuark
This fake racial incident stuff seems to happen a lot of college campuses. I guess Tawana Brawley and Al Sharpton got the ball rolling on this one. I think it's a self hating Black thing going on. Similar to the phenomenon of the self hating Jew
7 posted on 12/17/2002 9:30:57 PM PST by dennisw
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To: kattracks
Wonder why Larry king missed this story? I feel like I should send Michelle a donation so she can keep up the good work.
8 posted on 12/17/2002 9:37:41 PM PST by dalebert
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To: dennisw
I am sure that you are right and some of it is present. I believe, however, that for the most part it is (i) a safe prank ("you ain't gonna be mad at me 'cause I am offending my own people"), and (ii) a provocation, whereby you can easily create more problems for whites whom you dislike. As this incident shows, if you acted on such assumptions, you'd be fine.
9 posted on 12/17/2002 9:37:41 PM PST by TopQuark
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To: kattracks
Wonder why Larry king missed this story? I feel like I should send Michelle a donation so she can keep up the good work.
10 posted on 12/17/2002 9:39:00 PM PST by dalebert
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To: kattracks
There were stories last fall about a Muslim college student perpetrating false 'hate crimes' against himself and blaming whites. Maybe illegal aliens will pick up on this psychological terror campaign too. Whites can be 'guilted' into anything ...
11 posted on 12/17/2002 9:39:49 PM PST by spodefly
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To: kattracks
I am saddened, but not surprized. This sort of thing has happened before.

At the Univ. of MD, Baltimore County, anti homosexual slogans were found scrawled in chalk on the sidewalks. This happened several years in a row. What made cynics (like me) suspicious was that this always occured just before events such as "Gay-Pride Day," or "Gay Awareness Week," or some such. Moreover, our campus homosexual activist organization typically covered the sidewalks with slogans and symbols drawn in colored chalk during these events ... and the handwriting of both the Gay-pride chalkings and the anti-homosexual ones were curiously similar. Sure enough, one time, the campus police interrupted 2 or three persons writing anti-gay slogans ... and it was the activists from the campus homosexual group.
Nothing was done; indeed, almost nothing was said. And when, next year, the same crude "gay-bashing slogans" again appeared chalked on the sidewalks just before "AIDS Awareness Week" (or some such), nobody mentioned the incident from the year before. (Except me; I aways was a loud-mouth rable rousing so-and-so)

VietVet
12 posted on 12/17/2002 9:41:48 PM PST by VietVet
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To: TopQuark
Your analysis is better than mine. It's a safe "prank" at minimum. At maximum (and you're not found out) you have furthered the cause of getting Whitey and proving all whites are racist. Same way the RATS and Jesse and his crew have their own little passion play going on that proves all Republicans are really racist.
13 posted on 12/17/2002 9:46:24 PM PST by dennisw
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To: kattracks
... has all the markings of a fake hate crime

No, it was a real hate crime, against whites. These incidents, whether real or fake, are serious. Fake hate crimes need to be prosecuted and punished equal to the severity of the alleged crime.

14 posted on 12/17/2002 9:47:56 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: fellowpatriot
Ole Miss Chancelor Bob Kyatt(sp?) will not permit the kinds of crap that once was the order of the day nor will he put up any new order that will pit races against on another. Of course ther will be those forces that aren't happy with the fact that the chancelor happens to be white.
15 posted on 12/17/2002 9:57:18 PM PST by oyez
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Anyone think Trent Lott is the ideal GOP point man on this?



16 posted on 12/17/2002 9:59:53 PM PST by Sabertooth
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To: gubamyster; Victoria Delsoul; Pokey78; JohnHuang2; MeeknMing; rdb3; mhking; BOBTHENAILER; ...

    

Michelle
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17 posted on 12/17/2002 10:00:51 PM PST by Sabertooth
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To: Sabertooth
Anyone think Trent Lott is the ideal GOP point man on this?

HAAAAAAHAAAAAAA!

18 posted on 12/17/2002 10:13:23 PM PST by kennyo
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To: kattracks
"Students of color" are herded into separate dorms, separate departments, and separate graduation ceremonies.

No, the so-called "students of color" segregate themselves, in some sick attempt to prove that they are independent from whitey. There, in their racist enclaves, they nurture their permanent racial grievances against Whitey.

Really, I think the self-segregation is an admission that they believe that they cannot compete. They believe that they can't compete with Whitey, so why try? Let's all just segregate ourselves in our own little racial ghetto, and talk about how "oppressed" we are. A sad Affirmative Action legacy.

19 posted on 12/17/2002 10:46:40 PM PST by Henrietta
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To: Sabertooth; wardaddy; maica; Freee-dame
BTTT!
20 posted on 12/17/2002 10:53:36 PM PST by Travis McGee
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