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The discovery of racist graffiti galvanized the Air Force Academy in September, and the superintendent of the Colorado campus turned that into a teaching moment with a speech about diversity and tolerance that found more than a million viewers on the internet.
Now officials say the scrawled slur in a dormitory was a hoax by one of its targets, a black cadet candidate.
The words “Go home,” followed by a racial slur, were found scrawled in marker on message boards outside the rooms of five black cadet candidates at the Air Force Academy Preparatory School in late September. The discovery led to an uproar on campus, and the widely shared video of a speech by the superintendent, Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria.
“If you demean someone in any way, you need to get out,” General Silveria said in the speech, which was viewed more than one million times on the academy’s YouTube channel. “If you can’t treat someone from another race, or different color skin, with dignity and respect, then you need to get out.”
Although the slurs were discovered at the preparatory school, a 10-month program that prepares candidates for admission to the academy proper, General Silveria said “it would be naïve” to think the episode did not reflect on the academy and the Air Force as a whole.
Academy officials swiftly began an investigation. They said in a statement on Tuesday that the cadet candidate had admitted to writing the slurs and was no longer enrolled at the school.
“We can confirm that one of the cadet candidates who was allegedly targeted by racist remarks written outside of their dorm room was actually responsible for the act,” the academy said. “The individual admitted responsibility and this was validated by the investigation.”
General Silveria said Tuesday that he stood by the underlying message of his speech, which invoked some of the nation’s most divisive racial events.
“Regardless of the circumstances under which those words were written, they were written, and that deserved to be addressed,” he told The Colorado Springs Gazette, referring to the slurs. “You can never overemphasize the need for a culture of dignity and respect — and those who don’t understand those concepts, aren’t welcome here.”
The academy said it would provide no further details on the matter, even though there may be “additional information already in the public space.”
That was an apparent reference to the report by The Gazette, which said the candidate had committed the act in a bid to get out of trouble for other misconduct.
The episode over the racist graffiti was propelled into national attention weeks after white supremacists rallied in Charlottesville, Va., and amid protests by N.F.L. players over racial inequality, events that General Silveria discussed in his speech.
Tracye Whitfield, the mother of one of the students whose message board was written on, posted a photo on Facebook of the slur, saying the country had to do better. “So many young black men are getting killed, and there is no justice for them,” Ms. Whitfield told KKTV. “It’s a nerve-racking feeling. These racial slurs cannot be tolerated.”
As news spread online that a black student had written the slurs, some called on General Silveria to directly address the episode as a hate crime hoax.
The episode renewed concerns that falsely reported hate crimes could make it more difficult for people with legitimate grievances to be taken seriously, particularly in a time when the reports of hate crimes are highly politicized.
“There are opportunists who try to paint this problem as indicative that they are not occurring, when they actually are,” said Brian Levin, the director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism. While hoaxes form a tiny percentage of total hate crime reports, Mr. Levin said he had an “anecdotal sense that we have seen somewhat of an increase in these hoaxes over the last year or so.”
One such instance came in December 2016, when an 18-year-old Muslim woman who claimed that three men attacked her on a Manhattan subway and tried to pull off her hijab was charged with filing a false report.
“Any false reports of bias incidents are seized on by those who want to create the impression that no hate crime reporting is legitimate,” said Ibrahim Hooper, the spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations. “We have seen an unprecedented spike in the number of hate- and bias-related incidents targeting American Muslims and others across the board.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/08/us/air-force-academy-racist.html
Now officials say the scrawled slur in a dormitory was a hoax by one of its targets, a black cadet candidate.
The words “Go home,” followed by a racial slur, were found scrawled in marker on message boards outside the rooms of five black cadet candidates at the Air Force Academy Preparatory School in late September. The discovery led to an uproar on campus, and the widely shared video of a speech by the superintendent, Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria.
“If you demean someone in any way, you need to get out,” General Silveria said in the speech, which was viewed more than one million times on the academy’s YouTube channel. “If you can’t treat someone from another race, or different color skin, with dignity and respect, then you need to get out.”
Although the slurs were discovered at the preparatory school, a 10-month program that prepares candidates for admission to the academy proper, General Silveria said “it would be naïve” to think the episode did not reflect on the academy and the Air Force as a whole.
Academy officials swiftly began an investigation. They said in a statement on Tuesday that the cadet candidate had admitted to writing the slurs and was no longer enrolled at the school.
“We can confirm that one of the cadet candidates who was allegedly targeted by racist remarks written outside of their dorm room was actually responsible for the act,” the academy said. “The individual admitted responsibility and this was validated by the investigation.”
General Silveria said Tuesday that he stood by the underlying message of his speech, which invoked some of the nation’s most divisive racial events.
“Regardless of the circumstances under which those words were written, they were written, and that deserved to be addressed,” he told The Colorado Springs Gazette, referring to the slurs. “You can never overemphasize the need for a culture of dignity and respect — and those who don’t understand those concepts, aren’t welcome here.”
The academy said it would provide no further details on the matter, even though there may be “additional information already in the public space.”
That was an apparent reference to the report by The Gazette, which said the candidate had committed the act in a bid to get out of trouble for other misconduct.
The episode over the racist graffiti was propelled into national attention weeks after white supremacists rallied in Charlottesville, Va., and amid protests by N.F.L. players over racial inequality, events that General Silveria discussed in his speech.
Tracye Whitfield, the mother of one of the students whose message board was written on, posted a photo on Facebook of the slur, saying the country had to do better. “So many young black men are getting killed, and there is no justice for them,” Ms. Whitfield told KKTV. “It’s a nerve-racking feeling. These racial slurs cannot be tolerated.”
As news spread online that a black student had written the slurs, some called on General Silveria to directly address the episode as a hate crime hoax.
The episode renewed concerns that falsely reported hate crimes could make it more difficult for people with legitimate grievances to be taken seriously, particularly in a time when the reports of hate crimes are highly politicized.
“There are opportunists who try to paint this problem as indicative that they are not occurring, when they actually are,” said Brian Levin, the director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism. While hoaxes form a tiny percentage of total hate crime reports, Mr. Levin said he had an “anecdotal sense that we have seen somewhat of an increase in these hoaxes over the last year or so.”
One such instance came in December 2016, when an 18-year-old Muslim woman who claimed that three men attacked her on a Manhattan subway and tried to pull off her hijab was charged with filing a false report.
“Any false reports of bias incidents are seized on by those who want to create the impression that no hate crime reporting is legitimate,” said Ibrahim Hooper, the spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations. “We have seen an unprecedented spike in the number of hate- and bias-related incidents targeting American Muslims and others across the board.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/08/us/air-force-academy-racist.html
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Face palm infinity level
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This is what happens when you define yourself by being oppressed
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This happens alot lately....i didnt make the threads bcuz people would cry about it
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People who do this ? need their ? whooped as bad as the people who do the real ? .
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K state kid?
An incident in which racist slurs were painted on a car near the Kansas State University campus last week was a hoax, and the man who painted the slurs has apologized.
Riley County Police reported Monday afternoon that the owner of the car, Dauntarius Williams, 21, of Manhattan, admitted to investigators he was responsible for the graffiti.
Law enforcement officials, however, decided not to file charges against Williams.
Police said that after learning that Williams had defaced his own vehicle, Riley County Police Director Brad Schoen and the Riley County Attorney Barry Wilkerson held a series of conversations.
The two law enforcement agencies concluded that despite having filed a false report, criminal charges against Williams would not be in the best interests of the citizens of Manhattan.
In a news release, police said Williams expressed genuine remorse “and expressed sincere regret that his actions had resulted in the negative media attention that resulted.”
“I would like to deeply apologize to the community,” Williams said in a statement released by police.
“The whole situation got out of hand when it shouldn’t have even started. It was just a Halloween prank that got out of hand. I wish I could go back to that night but I can’t. I just want to apologize from the bottom of my heart for the pain and news I have brought you all,” he said.
Williams had called The Star after the incident and said he was a K-State student and was leaving the university. K-State said it had no record of Williams being a student.
Last Wednesday Riley County Police Department were called to an apartment parking lot on Claflin Road and found a car that had been defaced with racial slurs and threats.
The N-word was written with yellow paint across the rear windshield of the car. Other racially offensive language — “White’s Only,” “Die,” and “Date your own kind,” was also painted on the windshield and side doors of the car.
Reports of the incident led African American students on the campus to call a meeting that evening to talk about possible racism near the K-State campus.
http://amp.kansascity.com/news/local/article183086416.html
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This is what happens when you define yourself by being oppressed
You just described 80% of the Posters here. Some of these cats are natural born victims let them tell it. -
CACS do ? and blame us all the time and we DIE or get MAD jail time behind it. Remember Susan Smith? How many countless others blamed brothers 4 their fuckery? It brought race conversation 2 the table! Front and center: Mission Accomplished!
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Yeah, you'll have folks that'll do these sort of things in attempt to make a group look bad... or for other reasons.
http://www.masslive.com/news/worcester/index.ssf/2017/06/wife_of_millbury_police_office_1.html
https://splinternews.com/a-firefighter-has-been-charged-after-allegedly-pinning-1793864146
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-vandalizes-truck-blames-black-lives-matter-article-1.2366871
http://hiphopwired.com/510538/attemp-frame-blacks-rule-attack-quickly-deemed-jig/ -
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