This latest entry in our Real Racism series speaks to a sad, increasingly recurring theme: a minority individual or group concocting a racial incident out of thin air, and then claiming victimhood.
Excerpted from Ray Sanchez and Haimy Assefa’s article at CNN.com:
Three State University of New York at Albany students who claimed to be hate crime victims are being accused of fabricating a racially motivated attack, according to campus police.
Do we know for certain whether the allegations against these three Black women are correct? No, we do not. There has not yet been a trial and the evidence has not yet been presented.
But unless Albany University’s police chief is lying – very difficult to believe (if the interviews and videos showed anything other than what he says, there is no doubt he would be fired) – this is an intentional effort to create a racial incident…and to tag an innocent person as both a perpetrator and a racist.
Isn’t there enough actual racism in this country without utter BS like this taking place? Do bogus incidents really have to be invented?
Maybe these three figured that, at the worst, they’d be treated as victims deserving of sympathy…and, at best, maybe file a lawsuit to get some serious $$$ out of it.
If Freddy Gray’s family could cop a $6.4 million dollar settlement from Baltimore before even one police officer went on trial, thus no evidence was presented to prove he was mistreated, why not them too?
Well, right now prospects for either of those outcomes do not look promising. If the allegations against them are true, an expulsion from the university and conviction on the criminal charges seem much more likely.
Real racism. It comes in all forms from all sources. No group is immune to it or from it. Even when it is invented out of thin air.
