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Speaker 1: I want to welcome everyone back to part three of

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my reading of Crying Wolf Hate Crime Hoaxes in America

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by Laird Wilcox. Just a reminder, Thomas and I are

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watching and reviewing movies. If you go to freemanby on

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the Wall dot com forward slash movies, there are links

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to where you can get them. The latest movie we

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did was what was the latest movie we did? We

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did The Warriors nineteen seventy nine. Before that, we did

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Mad Max the original Mel Gibson nineteen seventy nine. So

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go check that out, all right, it's going to jump

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in and start going. So we are up to chapter

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three about the prevalence of hoaxes and fabrications. How common

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are hate crime hoaxes? Civil rights, Jewish and anti racist

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groups stress the view that they are unusual and represent

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them misguided work of disturbed individuals. On the other end

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of the spectrum is to view held by genuine racists

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and anti Semites that a massive conspiracy exists to commit

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hoaxes and publicize them as bona fide hate crimes. The truth,

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as might be expected, lies somewhere between these two extreme positions.

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The problem, however, has long been recognized even by anti

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racist authors and journalists, although a few of them have

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written about it. Ben Has, author of the anti clan

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classic KKK, noted that quote it would be foolish, of course,

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to say that all violence attributed to the clan was

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actually committed by clansmen or as a clan sponsored activity.

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Therein lay the fallacy of the disguise. Any gang of

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hoodlums that could scare up the requisite robes and hoods

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could set out to have some sadistic fund or settle

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personal grudges, and the onus of their misbehavior would automatically

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fall on the clan. In all likelyhood, the actual extent

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of racist and anti Semitic hoaxes can never be known

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as long as in as long as unsolved cases are

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uniformly regarded as actual and not merely suspected hate crimes.

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Police who investigate alleged hate crimes cases privately report that

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a surprising large percent are suspicious and likely hoaxes or pranks.

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In talking with college and university security officials, I encountered

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responses ranging from a few not too many to damn

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near all of them. Most officials were cautious and reluctant.

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To talk without some assurance of anonymity, and several merely

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referred me to administrators who were even more paranoid. When

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a figure for hoaxes was ventured, however, it was often

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in the area of twenty to twenty five to thirty percent.

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This figure has a kind of reasonableness about it, allowing

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that it probably doesn't hold true for every environment. Deliberate misrepresentations, hoaxes,

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and frauds are surprisingly commonplace in American political life. They

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are more likely to occur in those issues where taboos, sensitivity,

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or fear of being called names are operational, or where

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the moral imperatives of noble social causes and crusades overwhelm

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individual judgment. Let's look at a few proven hoaxes involving blacks.

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In these examples, most people are deeply affected by the

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emotional impact of the message, few ask whether the message

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is actually true. New heading Roots a search for black origins,

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as an example. Perhaps one of the greatest literary hoaxes

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with strong racial overtones was committed by Alex Haley, author

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of the spurious book Roots, which fraudulently purports to TRACE's

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ancestry back to a village in Africa. What is particularly

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troublesome about this hoax is that although knowledgeable researchers doubted

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Haley's work from the beginning, it wasn't until December nineteen

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seventy eight, when Haley settled a plagiarism lawsuit with Harold Coreyer,

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author of the nineteen sixty seven novel The African, for

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six hundred and fifty thousand dollars, that it became clear

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how seriously Haley had fudged his facts. In the meantime,

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the book had sold one point five million copies and

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Alex Haley had won Appulitzer Prize. Ironically, Haley was quoted

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York Times quote, it would be a scoop to beat

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all hell if Roots could be proved to be a hoax.

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And that's one of the reasons why it's so important

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to me to document as best I could. The Roots

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hoax had enormous consequences for the story it fabricated, was

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used to inspire militancy in a generation of black people,

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and was a significant factor in the development of black

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and nineteen eighties. Its influence persists to this day. Although

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the hoax had widely had received widespread publicity, it's still

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widely regarded as an authentic and inspirational ledg not uncommonly

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shown in the nation's schools in order to sensitize white

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students to the black experience. The television mini series that

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generated was viewed by an estimated one hundred and thirty

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million people and broke existing Nielsen TV ratings. I remember

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watching that shit in my house. My parents were half

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retarded most of the time when it came to bullshit

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like this. Subsequent research showed that Haley stole passages from

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other books and fabricated many of the characters. Even his

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pre Civil War US research, which some records were where

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some records were available, was faked. When University of Alabama

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professor Gary Mills and his wife Elizabeth, editor of the

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National Geographic Social Society Quarterly, attempted to document Haley's genealogical work,

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they concluded quote the records showed that Haley got everything

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wrong in his pre Civil War lineage one hundred and

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Family have no basis in fact. So extensive was the

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hoax that Harvard professor Oscar Hanlin observed quote a fraud's

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a fraud. Historians are reluctant cowardly about calling attention to

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factual errors when the general theme is in the right direction.

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That goes for foreign policy, for race, and for this

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book new heading The Liberators Black Jewish Reconciliation. A more

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recent example of a hoax involved fake black history is

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the nineteen ninety two Public Broadcasting System film The Liberators,

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which purports to tell of the part played by the

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all black seven hundred and sixty first Tank Battalion in

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the liberation of the Docout concentration camp in April nineteen

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forty five. Viewed by an audience with three point seven

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million people, the film was nominated for an Academy Award.

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The film, largely the work of William Miles and Nina Rosenbloom,

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producers of politically correct documentaries on blacks and women, was

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designed to ease strained Black Jewish relations from Black and

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Jewish communities. Viewed a special showing of the film and

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spoke of a common history of oppression. Good sentiments aside,

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they had chosen a fraudulent vehicle to bring the groups closer.

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Michael Jones talks about this all the time, and also

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he points out that our current Secretary of State, what's

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his name, Benjamin Netanyahu's lawyer, Anthony Blincoln is he uses

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this saying that I believe. He says his father in

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law was a part of this. He was when they

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came to liberate the concentration camp. He was in it

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was a tank and reached down a black hen to

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bring him up to total horseship, total horseship. In a

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February nineteen ninety two interview in The New Republic, Rosenbloom

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attack critics of the film as Holocaust revisionists. Atributed their

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criticism to racism, but according to former Army Captain David

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Williams of the seven hundred and sixty first, the unit

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was nowhere near Dachau when the camp was liberated. He says,

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quote on April twenty nine, nineteen forty five, the seven

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hundred and sixty first was near Strawbing, which is about

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seventy miles from Dachau. As the crow flies bridges were down,

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the tanks were all beat up there wasn't enough gas.

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Nobody could have just taken a Sherman tank on one

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hundred and forty mile round trip and not have been

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noticed missing. We would have been court martialed. Philip Latimer,

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president of the seven hundred and sixty first Veterans Group, said,

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all anybody had to do is look at our history.

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There's no mention of Dochau or Bookenwald. Other doubts about

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the documentary arose, and articles questioning its veracity appeared elsewhere. Finally,

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in February nineteen ninety three, w NetTV, a PBS affiliate

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involved in the film's production, decided to withdraw The Liberators

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from circulation, admitting that the seven D in his sixty

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first tank Italian did not in fact liberate two concentration

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camps as described in the film. This is just a

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real problem. You know, World War Two was bad enough,

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was horrifying enough for everyone involved. If you want to

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tell the story of World War Two and what you

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went through, what your people went through, what your family

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went through, just tell the story. You don't need to

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make shit new heading. Doctor Charles drew Death by discrimination.

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One of the more enduring hoaxes has been the falsified

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account of the death of doctor Charles Drew, a black

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physician credited with developing the blood bank system. According to

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the hoax, doctor Drew bled to death following a nineteen

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fifty five automobile accident because a white only hospital refused

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to treat him. This unfounded tail was repeated by National

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Urban League director Whitney Young in a nineteen six syndicated column,

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and black historian William Lauren Katz. That doesn't sound black

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at all, William Lauren Katz HU wrote of the spurious

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incident in his nineteen seventy one book Eyewitness the Negro

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in American History. Katz has since acknowledged the error really

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admitted a mistake. I find that Hart's belief. Doctor Charles

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Mason Quick, also a black physician, has said he wants

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to stamp out this perpetual lie about doctor Drew. Quick

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says he personally saw three emergency room doctors worked for

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two hours trying to save doctor Drew's life. Drew's injuries

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included brain damage, and he died in the emergency room.

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Cecil Adams, author of the Straight Dope column in Washington,

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DC's City Paper, reported that doctor John Ford one of

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the passengers who was injured in doctor Drew's car, reported

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that we all received the very best of care. The

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doctor started treating us immediately. Adams also mentioned a similar

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hoax involving a famous black blues singer, quoting the true

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story is strangely similar to one told about blue singer

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Bessie Smith. She too, supposedly bled to death after an

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auto accident when a white hospital refused to admit her.

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The alleged accident, which occurred in Mississippi in nineteen thirty seven,

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was even the subject of a play by Edward Albee.

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Tell the same Just go to the well, the same well,

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over and over again, and people aren't supposed to notice.

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And if you do notice, they call you race sister.

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An antie summit new heading. Doctor Martin Luther King a

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case of plagiarism. There has been no greater Black icon

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than Martin Luther King, whose name became synonymous with the

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civil rights movement in America, Yet controversy plagued his life

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until his terrible assassination in nineteen sixty eight. It became

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widely known that he was abusive to women and frequented prostitutes.

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As he traveled across the country. Several of his closest

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associates had long tides to the Communist Party. What was

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known until long after What was not known until long

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after his death, however, was that his degree as doctor

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was unearned and in fract the product of fraud. King's

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degree was awarded for a supposedly original thesis entitled A

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Paul Tillick and Henry Nelson Wireman. He has submitted to

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Boston University in nineteen fifty five as part of his

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requirements for a PhD. Over the years, rumors built up

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about the originality of the work, and in nineteen ninety

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the university established a committee to investigate the alleged plagiarism.

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In October nineteen ninety one, the committee released its findings.

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There is no question but the doctor King plagiarized in

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the dissertation by appropriating material from sources not explicitly credited

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in notes or mistakenly credited or credited generally and at

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some distance in the text from a close paraphrase or

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verbatim quotation of these highly damaging findings. However, the committee

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said that no thought should be given to the revocation

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of doctor King's doctoral degree from Boston University. Committee members,

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through their spokesman John Cartwright, MLK, Professor of Social ethics, said,

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New heading the absence of healthy skepticism. Most Americans take

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a surprisingly uncritical and unquestioning attitude towards this problem, because

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if they question it, they get in trouble. They get

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called names, and you lose your banking and you know,

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all sorts of things, You're a bad person. They seem

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to believe that whatever is said or written or done

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in the service of a good cause must be truth,

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particularly if that cause is fighting racism and anti Semitism. Why,

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after all, would anyone lie, fabricate, exaggerate, or distort when

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it seems clear that they are peer of heart. And

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what if they did, aren't they doing it for a

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good cause? And what are those who exposed these deceptions?

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Isn't this evidence of some kind of covert racism or

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anti semitism? Why would anyone talk bad about a good cause?

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In short, those who lie in distort earn the good guys,

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and those who pursue the facts of the matter are

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the bad guys. This is a pretty incredible situation. Indeed,

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for example, the elaborate rape hoax concocted by Towana Brawley,

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her mother, and Reverend Al Sharpton was accepted at face

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value by politicians in the media. It brought about a

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virtual orgy of white guilt and anti racist agitation, and

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we were made to feel that, in some metaphysical way,

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we were all somehow responsible for what happened to this

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young black girl. Finally, an intensive investigation revealed the hoax

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that should have been suspected early on. There are still

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people who believe that the story must have something to it.

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the victim and alleged victimizers, and not one of facts

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or evidence. For many people that Tojana Brawley was black

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was all they needed to know. Nothing else carried as

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much significance as her minority status. New heading victimhood pays

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in terms of cost benefit analysis. The actual payoff for

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victimhood can be very high, and the risk of discovery

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of a hoax is very small. The issue of secondary

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gain plays an important part in racist and anti Semitic hoaxes,

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and the search for an answer to this troubling phenomenon

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is well served by the question who benefits when a

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hoaxer gets caught, which isn't often they are fallback. There

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are fallback positions which can put a positive spin on

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the incident. The hoax or status may be reframed so

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that blaming the victim can be invoked, whereby the hoax

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is understandable, or he may become mentally ill, which also

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removes any responsibility for the hoax. Barry dav Schutz, Jeez,

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what a pattern responsible for several apparently anti Semitic arsons.

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Wanted to keep awareness of anti Semitism alive, and until

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he was caught, accomplished it through a series of arsons

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in Hartford's Jewish community. I'm not even going to go

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into that story, but hearts for Hearts for Jewish community,

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the genesis of that and how that was established. Oh oh,

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I'm planning on having somebody on who told me the

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story of that. Maybe we'll maybe I'll bring that up.

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Psychiatric treatment was the major part of his punishment. The

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rest was probation in a suspended sentence. In the case

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of Sabrina Collins, who fabricated harassment and death threats, the

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county prosecutor said she needed counseling and treatment, not prosecution,

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for her hopes. I did not uncover a case where

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a white, non minority defendant in a crime prosecution was

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treated so generously or relieved of responsibility in such a manner.

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With hoaxes, the nature of the offense makes discovery difficult.

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Telephone harassment, for example, usually leaves no forensic evidence unless

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the problem is severe enough for police to order a

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monitoring device. Obviously, now that's almost impossible. This happened in

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several of the hoaxes mentioned in this essay. A telephone

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message service by the Oklahoma White Man's Association was being

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sabotaged by endless incoming calls tying up the line. The

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group complained to the police and the telephone company who

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install telephone company installed tracing equipment on the line. An

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investigation showed that the local Jewish community center, where a

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computer was apparently automatically dialing call after call, was the

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very source of the problem. In spite of hard evidence

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of the contrary, Jewish Community director David Bernstein said, we

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have no computers here and we're not jamming any phones.

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Charges were filed. In other cases, both buzz Cody and

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Laurie Wrecked, both of whom fabricated anti Semitic death threats,

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were entrapped with telephone tracing equipment. In the case of

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defacing property with racist and anti Semitic graffiti, investigation is

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made only slightly easier. Spray painted graffiti, unlike handwritten or

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typewritten material, cannot be pinned down. In two cases mentioned

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in this study, the discovery of the very spray can

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in the possession of the victims led to their prosecution,

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but both were acquitted on the basis of insufficient evidence.

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They just saw it. It was just laying on the

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ground that they picked it up, and they just decided

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to walk with it, just a spray can in their hand.

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I don't know that that was your argument, but that's

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I guess if I was a fucking moron, a piece

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of shit lawyer, that's what i'd come up with. The

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eyewitness account is often an important factor in hoax investigation.

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In many cases, it was this that led authorities to

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suspect fabrication. The factor here was inconsistent testimony or different

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hoaxes by different witnesses, different stories by different witnesses, or

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physical evidence of lying. Where the possibility of hoax exists,

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the victim the witness, who is often the victim, should

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be interrogated by a person's skilled in that area. Surprisingly,

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the cover story often isn't very well prepared and can

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be cracked with reasonable effort. In the case of Quenton Banks,

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who faked a racist assault in death Threats, it was

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a skilled interrogator who caught him in a number of

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contradictions and broke the case. New heading temptations to fabricate

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hoaxes is strong because bonafide, organized racist and anti Semitic

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incidents are relatively unusual today, and because they serve valuable

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functions for the victims and their constituencies when they occur,

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the temptations to fabricate incidents is strong. Victims are usually

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treated as heroes who have been ennobled by their experience

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and the rage against the suspected perpetrator, as well as

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represented as of their race genderer class can be amazing

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in terms of sheer effectiveness. Nothing works quite as well

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as a racist or anti Semitic incident to intimidate an institution,

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sensitize a population, polarize an issue, or silence critics. Victimization

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genuine or faith can accomplish more in minutes than months

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of organizing, agitation, and propaganda. The personal benefits are impressive

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as well. Many hoaxers have received substantial assistance from sympathizers

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and well wishers, as in the case of Patricia Anderson

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and Lee Williams, who vandalized their own house and received

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offers of clothing, gifts, and money. Laurie Wrect, who faked

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death threats and graffiti, became a celebrity for her victimhood

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and wound up with a scholarship and an honorary Doctor

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of Humane Letters before her hoax was discovered. The most

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important benefits of victimization are psychological. However, the delicious sense

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of importance and meaning to one's life that victimization brings

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is often overlooked as a motive in hoaxes of the

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time illustrated here. I suspect it plays a very significant role.

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The paranoid personality, with its tendency to interpret everyday experience

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in vigilant and suspicious terms, revels in the attention of

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recognized victimization. Victimization gives dignity to the undignified, importance to

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the unimportant, and it kind of I told you so,

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self fulfilling prophecy that explains failure and disappointment as few

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things can not being liked because becomes less of a

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question of what is wrong with you than what is

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wrong with others who don't like you? Oh wow, I'm

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Some people become important and valued for what they do,

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their contributions to their loved ones, to their careers into society,

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others for what is done to them. In the former case,

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many years of forming character traits and a reputation are required,

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and the resulting importance can be seen as a reward

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for recognized accomplishment. In the latter case, no such accomplishment

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is required, only that one is victimized. Victimization is instant fame,

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instant sympathy, and, often in some form or another, instant compensation.

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Whatever shortcomings on popularity or character flaws one has are

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eclipsed by the wickedness of one's alleged persecutors. Having the

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right enemies can often lead to acquiring the right friends.

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In a prospective article on victimization appearing in the New

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York Times magazine a few years ago, Joseph Epstein discussed

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the issue of motivation quite perceptively, quoting victimhood has not

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only its privileges, but its pleasures to begin with. It

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allows one to save one's sympathy for that most sympathetic

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of characters, oneself. The pleasures of victimhood including imbuing one's

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life with a sense of drama. The drama of daily

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life is greatly heightened if one feels a society is

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organized against one. To feel oneself excluded and set apart

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is no longer obviously or even necessarily a bad thing.

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People who count and call themselves victims never blame themselves

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for their condition. They therefore have to find enemies new

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heading hate crimes harmful to bonifide racists hate groups. There's

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a very important point that needs to be understood here.

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Bonafide racist and anti Semitic harassment is invariably counterproductive for

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bonafide racists and anti Semites. The quickness and skill with

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which racist and anti Semitic incidents, including hoaxes, are used

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to galvanize anti racist support in the community is amazing.

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No benefit accrues to racist and anti Semites, and the

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costs are enormous. Not only does law enforcement immediately start

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targeting suspects for questioning, but efforts to entrap them and

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other offenses steps up as well. Who benefits The honest

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answer is not white, racist and anti Semitic groups. So

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damaging to real anti Semites and racists are desecrations in

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graffiti that one bonafied anti Semite, Joseph malt Morose of Salem, Massachusetts,

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was arrested for attempting to paint over anti Semitic graffiti

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on a local synagogue. He claimed that the graffiti was

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intended to create a false impression of anti Semitic harassment

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in the community. Malat Moros was charged with malicious destruction

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of property over two hundred and fifty dollars in civil

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rights violations, both felonies, according to newspaper reports. Although evidently

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not a hoax, a Lomita, California graffiti case demonstrates the

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counterproductiveness of racist and anti Semitic vandalism and the skill

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with which these incidents can be exploited to generate sympathy

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and mobilize opposition to alleged perpetrators. In nineteen ninety one,

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Janis brett Elspas and her beIN Shlomo found a Nazi

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swastika and the words white Power sprint painted on the

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garage doors of their house at seven thirty am one morning.

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This was allegedly the ninth time their home had been

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the target of anti Semitic attacks. A public relations professional,

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Miss brett Elspas, immediately went into high gear, and by

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eight thirty am she was faxing a news release to

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area television and radio stations, quoting. By noon, we had

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finished several newspaper interviews and had posed for photos for each.

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Throughout the day, we did more interviews by phone and

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two major Los Angeles all news radio stations, and a

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variety of local, national, and international Jewish publications. And when

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five television crews shout up at four PM, just one

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hour before the start of the Jewish Sabbath, we held

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an impromptu press conference in our living room. Within a week,

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the Los Angeles Times had done three major stories, and

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The Daily Breeze of Torrens Daily published three major articles

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based in interviews with the couple. Numerous radio and TV

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stations that covered the incidents, and stories ran in several

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Jewish newspapers. The incident and resulting publicity were instrumental in

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rewriting a city ordinance dealing with hate crimes, and an

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ad hoc committee was formed to deal with graffiti and

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hate crimes. At the time of this writing, the case

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remains unsolved all right Chapter four. On the campus, the

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college and university campus, because of its young and imaginative population,

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and also because of the immense pressure for political correctness,

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is a hot hot bed of sensitivity and awareness of

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ethnicity and race. It is not surprising that a large

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number of hoaxes and pranks occur there, including some of

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the more imaginative cases. It's also on the campus that

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most of the unreported hoaxes occur, i e. They are

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discovered to be hoaxes early enough that they simply are

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never reported in the campus or community press. Cases. Quentin Ebanks,

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a black student at Northwest Missouri University in Maryville, reported

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a racially motivated assault in death rights against themselves to

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university officials in October nineteen eighty eight, following extensive media

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attention rumors of a ku klux clavern among n mu's

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students emerged and the campus shifted into a crisis atmosphere.

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Even the president of NMU, Dean Hubbard, bought the story, saying, quote,

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we believe the clavern is made up of about five

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students who are distributing the leaflets and letters on the

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student's cars and under their doors. The US Marshall's Office

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and the FBI have told us that this is a

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violation of the student's civil rights. We'll catch one of

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them these days at it. At a campus rally, some

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two hundred students, faculty, and administrators protested that racism instigated

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by the ku Klux Klan didn't belong on campus or

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in Maryville, and that it would not be tolerated. In fact,

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there was no Claveran at NMU, although as many as

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fifteen black students had reported finding KKK flyers on windshields

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and dormitory doors. James A Moran gran Dragon of a

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two man KKK claverrate in nearby Kansas City, took advantage

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of the publicity and announced will grow and prosper off

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their paranoia, with plans to exploit the situation. Newspaper accounts

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portrayed the campus as a hotbed of racism. As the

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situation gained the national spotlight. The case unraveled a month

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later when the principal victim came clean and confessed to

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having fabricated the entire story. On the strength of the

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original complaint by Banks eighteen, the university had summoned assistance

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from the FBI and a special unit of the Justice Department. Later,

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when President Hubbard began noticing inconsistencies in banks account of

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the alleged incident, he summoned a special investigator from the

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Missouri Highway Patrol. During the course of an interrogation by

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Sergeant larryed R. Stobbs of the Patrols, broke down and

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confessed to his hopes. During the several week period when

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Banks's story had been believed, he had been a campus hero,

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talked about and admired for his victimization. School officials encouraged

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Banks to address freshman classes on his alleged experiences found

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a flyer. According to Hubbard, the student became the center

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of much attention following the incidents. Banks was subsequently suspended

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for school for two years. He claims that all he

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did was devise a really big calculated plan to test

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university policy on non discrimination. At the University of Kansas

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at Laurence, students awoke one January nineteen ninety two morning

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to find flyers from a purported conservative Christian crusade posted

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throughout the campus. The flyer contained neo Nazi icons, a

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border resembling a series of swastik as, a flaming sword

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at three imperial eagles at the bottom. The content in

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the flyer was calculated to provoke the radical, anti racist,

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and multicultural forces on the campus. It stated, in part,

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aren't you tired of minority special interest groups being given

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preferential treatment on this campus as to radical minority pressure

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groups indulge in historical revisionism. It is our duty to

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oppose the orgy of white male bashing threatening to destroy

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academic structure of our university. Join your brothers on Friday,

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January seventeenth on westco Beach at noon to show the

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administration and the community of cultural extortionists the power of

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our voices. We must be heard. When the appointed date came,

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the area was filled with two hundred anti racist, feminist,

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gay rights and multicultural counter demonstrators, all expressing their indignation

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over the message on the flyer that couldn't have smelled

474
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:58,240
good at all. Ugh Led by Anne Wike, Chairman, chairwoman

475
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:02,759
of the Lawrence Allons and Dean of Social Welfare Department

476
00:31:02,799 --> 00:31:06,119
at the university, the group was apparently disappointed that no

477
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:10,440
one from the Conservative Christian Crusade had decided to appear. Nevertheless,

478
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:14,079
a good conscious illness raising time was had by all,

479
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:19,720
including speeches condemning racism, sexism, homophobia and so on. In

480
00:31:19,759 --> 00:31:21,440
point of fact, there was no such group as a

481
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:25,240
Conservative Christian Crusade. A hunt on and off campus failed

482
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:27,880
to turn up a single member or even anyone who

483
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,400
said they had heard of the organization prior to the flyers.

484
00:31:30,759 --> 00:31:33,480
The KU Department of Religious Studies was not familiar with

485
00:31:33,519 --> 00:31:36,400
the group. Campus police checked all local print shops and

486
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,519
failed to find any who had printed the flyers. KU

487
00:31:39,559 --> 00:31:42,240
Police Lieutenant John Mullen said, as far as we know,

488
00:31:42,279 --> 00:31:45,920
there is no organization whatsoever by that name. He also

489
00:31:46,319 --> 00:31:49,359
said the flyer was a hoax. The writer contacted the

490
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bonafide of the few bonafide right wing students on the campus,

491
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,519
and none of them had heard of the group, although

492
00:31:56,519 --> 00:32:02,920
they acknowledged they would like to Quoting Lard Wilcox, former

493
00:32:03,039 --> 00:32:06,920
KU student and founder of the Wilcox Collection of Contemporary

494
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:10,200
Political Movements, said that the flyer was obviously designed to

495
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:14,079
stigmatize the ideas associated with and arouse anger and hatred

496
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:17,640
toward them. The quasi swastika, the burning sword, and the

497
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:22,200
imperial eagles are not particularly subtle attempts to evoke Nazi connotations,

498
00:32:22,279 --> 00:32:25,680
both on a conscious and subconscious basis. He said, the

499
00:32:25,799 --> 00:32:29,759
terms conservative and Christian, as well as well the reference

500
00:32:29,799 --> 00:32:32,680
to skin color and race, white male bashing, and brothers

501
00:32:32,759 --> 00:32:37,440
name and brothers named the groups intended to be stigmatized.

502
00:32:38,039 --> 00:32:41,599
The reference of the academic structure of our university completes

503
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:45,000
the suggestion of linkage between the interests of conservative Christians,

504
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:49,799
white male's Nazi imagery and the university administration and its policies.

505
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:55,519
It's actually a rather clever creation. Wilcox also said that

506
00:32:55,599 --> 00:32:58,839
any thinking conservative Christian or white male activists would realize

507
00:32:58,839 --> 00:33:01,039
that the flyer would create ant negative response will be

508
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:05,759
entirely counterproductive. Ask yourself who actually benefited from this incident.

509
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:09,400
It certainly wasn't any conservative Christians or white males who

510
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:13,319
wound up being portrayed as Nazi sympathizers and racists. A

511
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:15,559
year and a half later, a year and a half

512
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:18,960
after the incident and ongoing investigation had failed to turn

513
00:33:19,039 --> 00:33:24,799
up any trace of the group conservative Christian crusade. Black

514
00:33:24,799 --> 00:33:28,240
students at Williams College in Massachusetts were horrified in February

515
00:33:28,319 --> 00:33:31,200
nineteen ninety three to find three Rachel slurs written on

516
00:33:31,279 --> 00:33:34,160
notebook paper posted on the door of the Black Student

517
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:37,920
Union building. The event took place five days before the

518
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:41,920
start of a Black History Month. The campus convulsed with

519
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:47,640
social consciousness spasms and indignant speeches condemning racism. Seven point

520
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,319
seven percent of the students at Williams are black. The

521
00:33:50,359 --> 00:33:55,240
notes posted on the rice door had said die and

522
00:33:55,400 --> 00:34:01,119
words go home, and words and worth less than dirt

523
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:05,680
under this the dirt under this house. Wonder how much

524
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:10,840
of this was really misspelled? The Black Student Union covered

525
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:13,880
the campus with posters deploring the act and challenging students

526
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:18,000
to examine themselves for racist attitudes. Shortly afterwards, dean Joan

527
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:21,719
Edwards informed the campus, without specifying the student's race, that

528
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:25,039
a student had confessed to the act. Although rumors spread

529
00:34:25,039 --> 00:34:27,320
on campus, it was a full ten days before the

530
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:31,079
Williams record, the campus newspaper reported that Gilbert Moore, a

531
00:34:31,119 --> 00:34:36,159
black student, had been suspended. Interestingly, even though Moore had

532
00:34:36,159 --> 00:34:38,239
informed the Black Student Union of his acts when he

533
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:43,280
confessed to university authorities, the BSU continued to exploit the

534
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:46,000
incident as a bona fide case of white racism until

535
00:34:46,039 --> 00:34:50,039
the student newspaper reported otherwise. The newspaper had criticized the

536
00:34:50,039 --> 00:34:56,840
BSU for perpetrating an implicit lie through silence. In February

537
00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:00,480
nineteen ninety three, Lewis Williams, a black sophomore and resident

538
00:35:00,519 --> 00:35:05,079
dormitory assistant at Slippery Rock University near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, returned

539
00:35:05,119 --> 00:35:08,360
to his room to find a racial epithet head and

540
00:35:08,519 --> 00:35:12,280
word scrawled on his door with a black marker. Two

541
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:16,000
other black students, James Kenny and Darryl Carpenter, also found

542
00:35:16,039 --> 00:35:20,000
the word N on the door of the room they

543
00:35:20,079 --> 00:35:25,039
share in the same building. Williams reported the incidents. He

544
00:35:25,119 --> 00:35:27,800
opined that the slurs were related to Black History Month

545
00:35:28,159 --> 00:35:31,920
currently being observed on the campus. The incident reminded students

546
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:34,960
of an off campus prank crossburning three years previously, in

547
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,719
which two white students were expelled in charge with ethnic

548
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:43,719
intimidation and harassment. As might be expected, the campus was electrified. Williams,

549
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:46,159
a member of the Black Action Society, was quoted in

550
00:35:46,199 --> 00:35:50,159
the Pittsburgh Post Gazette as saying racism is not something

551
00:35:50,199 --> 00:35:54,079
you're born with, It's something you're taught. Students didn't have

552
00:35:54,119 --> 00:35:56,320
to wait long for the culprits to come clean. It

553
00:35:56,400 --> 00:36:00,159
was Williams himself who confessed to both incidents before campus police.

554
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:04,400
Police filed criminal mischief, a summary offense, and ethnic intimidation

555
00:36:04,519 --> 00:36:07,960
charges a misdemeanor against Williams, none of which were likely

556
00:36:08,039 --> 00:36:13,400
to involve jail time. An attempted racist frame up occurred

557
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:19,199
at Ohio Dominion College in Columbus, Ohio, December nineteen eighty eight,

558
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:21,960
when white student Michael A. Smith, twenty two, found himself

559
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,840
under arrest for sending threatening letters to thirteen black students

560
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:27,719
and faculty members. The threats were worded in the same

561
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:30,000
way as was a section of a term paper on

562
00:36:30,119 --> 00:36:33,239
prejudice he had submitted to Janist Hamlet, a black teacher

563
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:36,599
at the school. Hamlet had pointed out the similarities in

564
00:36:36,679 --> 00:36:42,400
the documents, which immediately implicated Smith. The letters stated death

565
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:46,760
to all ends and dumb Puerto Ricans at canvouch for

566
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:52,280
the second part. However, two Columbus police detectives who had

567
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,280
taken a class from Hamlet took an interest in the case.

568
00:36:56,000 --> 00:37:00,039
Hamlet had been outraged by Smith's use of n in

569
00:37:00,079 --> 00:37:03,480
his term paper and had tried unsuccessfully to get him expelled.

570
00:37:03,679 --> 00:37:06,719
Forensic examination of the envelopes that threatening letters had been

571
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:11,360
mailed in turned up Hamlet's fingerprints, and an examination of

572
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:14,119
her typewriter determined that the letters had been written on it.

573
00:37:14,639 --> 00:37:16,760
In fact, she had copied part of Smith's essay and

574
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,760
mailed it to the thirteen Blacks, and then discovered that

575
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:23,199
they were worded in the same manner. Ethnic intimidation charges

576
00:37:23,199 --> 00:37:25,920
against Smith were dropped, and Hamlet was charged with two

577
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:29,880
felon accounts of ethnic intimidation and two misdemeanor accounts of

578
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:34,320
aggravated menacing. The unequal treatment of Smith and Hamlet raised

579
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:38,280
considerable controversy on the campus. Smith was immediately suspended without

580
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:41,320
a hearing after being accused of sending the flyers, while

581
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:45,320
university officials appointed a factfinding committee to investigate the charges

582
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:48,679
against Hamlet. Also, Smith was arrested at the school and

583
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:50,880
hauled off in handcuffs in a patrol car to a

584
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:54,880
patrol car. One would think that that such a damaging

585
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:59,199
fabrication would have ended Hamlet's career. At last report, however,

586
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:02,840
she had returned to Kent State University to complete a PhD.

587
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:06,800
Michael Smith subsequently filed suit against the university for six

588
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:11,039
million and was awarded an undisclosed account. In nineteen ninety,

589
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:16,920
in Atlanta, Georgia, a black freshman at Emory University claimed

590
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:19,039
she had been the victim of racist attacks in her

591
00:38:19,119 --> 00:38:22,440
school dorm in April nineteen ninety. She had discovered the

592
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:26,840
phrases hang ends and die and die written under a

593
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:29,480
rug in her closet, as well as carved on her

594
00:38:29,599 --> 00:38:38,519
tampons in a drawer. Sabrina Collins, eighteen, also claimed to

595
00:38:38,559 --> 00:38:41,920
have received two letters threatening to lynch her. In addition,

596
00:38:42,079 --> 00:38:45,320
bleach was poured on some of her clothes and stuffed animals,

597
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:49,000
and the phrase and hang was written on the wall

598
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:57,440
of her closet leach huh huh, smolette huh never mind.

599
00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:01,800
Despite an alarm that Despite an alarm that police installed

600
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:05,800
in Collins's room, the incidents continued. Police eventually determined that

601
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:08,840
a threatening letter had a grammatical error. The victim commonly

602
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:11,840
made that it was typed on the sort of typewriter

603
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:14,519
found in her place of employment, and it had no

604
00:39:14,599 --> 00:39:17,800
fringer prints on it, but hers. In the meantime, Collins

605
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:21,360
was hospitalized and became mute. Two weeks later, she was

606
00:39:21,559 --> 00:39:26,480
released after having recovered her speech. The incident triggered a

607
00:39:26,519 --> 00:39:28,639
march by seven hundred students and a sit in in

608
00:39:28,639 --> 00:39:31,840
front of the administration demanding a cracked down on campus racism.

609
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:35,519
Black leaders in Atlanta got into the act, perpetrating demands

610
00:39:35,519 --> 00:39:39,239
against hate crimes. Although it was speculated virtually from the

611
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:42,280
start that Collins might be responsible for the events, considerations

612
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:45,039
of sensitivity kept the lid on this aspect of the

613
00:39:45,079 --> 00:39:48,679
case for several months. Finally, police reports for leak that

614
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:54,519
confirmed suspicions to Cab County Prosecutor Ralph Bowen announced that

615
00:39:54,559 --> 00:39:57,039
he will not pursue charges against Collins. He said that

616
00:39:57,079 --> 00:40:02,760
Collins needs counseling and treatment, execution, that it almost seems

617
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:06,599
like a script. The Collins case is interesting in a

618
00:40:06,679 --> 00:40:10,360
number of respects Otis Smith of the Atlanta chapter the NAACP,

619
00:40:10,559 --> 00:40:13,719
perhaps without realizing it, admitted the utility of hoaxes in

620
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:18,000
the following statement quote, it doesn't matter to me whether

621
00:40:18,039 --> 00:40:20,400
she did it or not, because of all the pressure

622
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:23,400
these black students are under at these predominantly white schools.

623
00:40:24,119 --> 00:40:27,239
If this will highlight it, if it will bring it

624
00:40:27,559 --> 00:40:29,760
to the attention of the public, I have no problem

625
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:34,320
with that. According to Harvard's Law school professor Alan Dershowitz,

626
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:38,559
quoting mss Collins first submitted her reports of racial harassment

627
00:40:38,599 --> 00:40:41,360
shortly after she was formally accused of cheating on a

628
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:47,400
chemistry test HMM, Dershwisz noted that the ends justify the

629
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:50,840
means when it comes to racism, mentality will inevitably lead

630
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:56,800
to false accusations being directed at innocent people. A widely

631
00:40:56,800 --> 00:41:00,800
publicized case of anti Semitic graffiti bears specially attention because

632
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:03,199
of the manner in which it was handled. Although the

633
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:07,920
suspected perpetrator was eventually acquitted of the charges, students at

634
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:10,599
the State University of New York and Birmingham were shocked

635
00:41:10,639 --> 00:41:14,360
to find anti Semitic slogans spray painted inside the door

636
00:41:14,559 --> 00:41:18,880
of the Jewish student Union office in November nineteen eighty eight.

637
00:41:19,119 --> 00:41:27,239
The slogans kill Circles and Zion Nazi racists were sprayed

638
00:41:28,079 --> 00:41:31,519
the day after the fifth anniversary of Crystal Knacht, where

639
00:41:31,599 --> 00:41:43,320
Nazis terrorized Jews in nineteen thirty eighth Germany. Jeez, why

640
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:51,480
authorities and was it who actually did? Never mind? Authorities

641
00:41:51,519 --> 00:41:54,639
investigating the incident soon zeroed in on a suspect. He

642
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:59,079
was James Oppenheim, former president of the Jewish Student Union.

643
00:42:00,639 --> 00:42:04,079
According to the bene Brith Hillell Foundation in Washington, Jewish

644
00:42:04,119 --> 00:42:07,239
students represent fifty percent of the school's enrollment, one of

645
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:10,000
the highest ratios of any public university in the nation.

646
00:42:10,519 --> 00:42:14,199
Sunny Binghamton's president, Richard D. Dye, responded to the accusation

647
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:17,760
with the statement that Oppenheim is entitled to full participation

648
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:20,880
in all aspects of university life and that this should

649
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:23,960
not be an occasion for prejudicing a person or a group.

650
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:28,719
In September nineteen eighty nine, Oppenheim, twenty, was arrested by

651
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:32,199
state police in Charge with fourth degree criminal mischief and

652
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:36,079
third degree false reporting of a crime. These relatively minor

653
00:42:36,079 --> 00:42:40,360
misdemeanor offenses rarely result in jail time upon conviction. The

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00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:43,320
manner in which the case was handled is a fascinating study.

655
00:42:43,679 --> 00:42:47,920
State police investigator Charles Gould responsible for filing charges stead

656
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:53,000
of Oppenheim. He's not a bad kid. The Binghamton Press

657
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:58,119
Son bulletin quoted police investigators as saying, quote, Oppenheim was

658
00:42:58,119 --> 00:43:01,679
trying to broaden recognition of NCCIS Semtism. Following a mediocre

659
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:04,159
showing at a memorial to the victims of the Nazi

660
00:43:04,199 --> 00:43:10,239
Crystal Knock program, student Association president Craig Spiegel read a

661
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:14,440
statement that warned against judging Oppenheim before due process takes it.

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00:43:14,559 --> 00:43:19,599
Courus is courus at reminding students that anti Semitism, racism, sexism, homophobia,

663
00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:23,480
and other forms of oppression existed on our campus. Three

664
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:28,440
weeks later, Oppenheim was selected to the Harpoor College Council.

665
00:43:28,519 --> 00:43:32,760
The Liberal Arts College of Sunny Binghamton. Rabbi Arnold Ferdigg

666
00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:37,960
described Oppenheim as an emotionally highly committed young man devoted

667
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:43,800
to Jewish causes on the campus, and we cancel our radicals.

668
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:51,719
In addition to being portrayed as sincere if misguided, Oppenheim

669
00:43:52,079 --> 00:43:55,679
had another advantage. His father was an attorney and knew

670
00:43:55,679 --> 00:43:58,800
that the evidence against his son could be challenged Aside

671
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:02,360
from non specified circle sbstantial evidence. The primary item was

672
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:06,079
the very can of spray paint with James Oppenheim's fingerprints

673
00:44:06,079 --> 00:44:09,599
found hidden in his desk at the Jewish Student Center.

674
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:13,559
Not even a good criminal, this would seem incriminating enough,

675
00:44:13,599 --> 00:44:16,440
but the case was made that Oppenheim had just picked

676
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:19,280
up the can and hit it so it wouldn't get lost.

677
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:24,880
The judge accepted this account. In December nineteen eighty nine,

678
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:28,719
Oppenheim was acquitted of all charges. In all Fairness' decision

679
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:31,719
for acquittals should be respected. At the time of this writing,

680
00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:34,679
no one else had been apprehended and there were no

681
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:40,719
other suspects. The Dartmouth Review, a politically conservative student weekly newspaper,

682
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:43,480
had been a thorn in the side of high ranking administrators,

683
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:48,320
some professors, and campus leptives campus leftists at Dartmouth University

684
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:51,360
in New Hampshire. For ten years. Its editors have been

685
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:54,760
harassed and vilified for their values, opinions and beliefs, and

686
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:57,480
their more extreme critics have gone so far as to

687
00:44:57,559 --> 00:45:01,480
accuse them of racism and anti Semitism. These critics had

688
00:45:01,559 --> 00:45:04,480
their fondest dreams fulfilled when a copy of the Review

689
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:08,679
appeared on the eve of Yam kapor In on October third,

690
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:12,880
nineteen ninety with their usual credo, a quotation from former

691
00:45:13,039 --> 00:45:17,239
US President Theodore Roosevelt replaced with a quotation from no

692
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:22,159
less than Adolph Hitler himself quote, I believe today that

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I am acting in the sense of the almighty Creator

694
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:28,239
by warding off the Jews. I am fighting for the

695
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:34,440
Lord's work. Interestingly, like many conservative campus publications, the Review

696
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:38,280
had been exceedingly strong in support of Israel against the Palestinians,

697
00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:41,320
but that brought them no protection from false charges of

698
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:51,199
anti Semitism. It will not do not bend an inch

699
00:45:52,800 --> 00:46:02,239
a centimeter to your enemies. Ever, the substitution was immediately

700
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:07,760
recognized as sabotage. Review editors and staff quickly apologized, even

701
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:10,440
taking out ads in the campus newspaper, and began searching

702
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:15,519
for the culprit. Amazingly, Dartmouth University President James Friedman, along

703
00:46:15,559 --> 00:46:18,880
with numerous leftist student groups and off campus activists, persisted

704
00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:21,639
in treating the quotation as if it was actually represented

705
00:46:21,679 --> 00:46:25,440
the policies of the paper and was collectively was the

706
00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:29,679
collective responsibility of everyone who wrote for it. Appalling bigotry

707
00:46:29,679 --> 00:46:31,519
of this kind has no place at the college or

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in this country, Friedman said. Review editor in chief Kevin Pritchett,

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who was black and rather sensitive to racism, was not amused.

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Our knowledge is that it was an inside job by

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one or more staff members. Friedman's tirade against a review

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was so vituperative that former US Treasury Secretary William E.

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Simon responded in an essay in The New York Times

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to the effect that quote Friedman led the campus in

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a nationally publicized rally against hate, metamorphosized metamor metamorphosed into

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an instrument of hate, hate directed against student journalists, who,

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as a result, suffered death warnings of threats of violence,

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as well as means spirited accusations. As a result of

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the furor and as a result of complaints about the

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reviews editorial content from anti racist groups, Barry Palmer, chairman

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of the New Hampshire of New Hampshire's Human Rights Commission,

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undertook a review of two years back copies of the paper,

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said Palmer. I read every single thing they wrote about teachers,

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I reviews, editorial I reviewed editorials and editorial cartoons, and

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I didn't find any hints of bigotry or prejudice. After

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reviewing two years of the publication, I began wondering what

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all the fuss was about. Although no one was ever

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charging the hoax, suspicion boiled down to a couple of

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staff members who have since left the paper. Pedro House,

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Junior of Cranford, New Jersey, was caught in the act

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of painting a series of racist and anti Semitic slurs

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on a restroom wall inside of building on Union's County

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College's Cranford campus in December nineteen eighty nine. House, who

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is black, is a postal employee in South Orange, New Jersey,

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and a part time student at the college. Cranford Police

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Captain Harry Wilde said that offensive graffiti was found in

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the same restroom on eight different days within the past

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two months. The graffiti had become an issue around which

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anti racist groups had rallied on the campus. Police also

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seized materials allegedly used to mark the drawings at epithets,

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which included swastikas in quotations about white power, Adolf Hitler,

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Jews and blacks. House had been active in anti racist movements.

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John Grace, a black freshman at Milbury College, and at

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Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont had been at school less

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than a week in September nineteen eighty three before he

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got the first racist note taped to his window. The

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next day, he got a second note, which said die

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n Black's on the campus, rally to his side. Erica Wannacott,

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dean of students, began her investigations uncovered the horrible racist

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who had victimized Grace. She didn't have to look far.

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We conducted a vast handwriting check and it was pretty

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clear it was his handwriting. He was confronted with it

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and admitted he had done it. In addition to the

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fake notes, Grace had also broken a window. The school, however,

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did not press charges. Missus Wilcott said, he's obviously a

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young man with a lot of problems. He said a mouthful. Berkeley,

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California police reported that there had been four attacks on

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white students by black students at Berkeley High School following

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the appearance of a racist leaflet on the campus in

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December nineteen ninety one. The leaflet thanked blacks for killing

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one another in gang violence, among other things, and mimicked

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the stereotype of a white supremacist production. Two days later,

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police had located the flyer's author. He was black journalist

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Matthew Stelly, a reporter for the black weekly Milwauk Courier.

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The leaflet claimed to originate from the KKK. Handed out

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to students at a Berkeley public transportation station, the leaflet

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brought an immediate, almost immediate reaction, according to Oakland Tribune

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reporter Robert Hollis, quoting that morning, seven or eight black teenagers,

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whose school officials said were angry over the leaflet, attacked

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a number of white students, four of whom were injured.

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Police arrested one fifteen year old sophomore after he was

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identified by one of the students. Stelly is quoted as

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saying he wrote the flyer as a reverse psychology ploy

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to try and get these people gang members to stop

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this madness. Planned carefully, the risk of discovery of a

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racial hoax is minimal. However, even when a hoax is discovered,

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it may still serve its intended purpose. An example of

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this occurred at Pennsylvania State University at State College, when

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an unidentified man placed six help once it ads in

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the student newspaper asking for colored nannies in January nineteen

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seventy nine. The expected and intended outrage resulted in several

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demands upon the administration, quoting about seventy five students met

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with Provost Edward d Eddie and demanded that the school

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increased a number of black students, professors, and programs, and

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provide more financial aid for blacks. The newspaper printed an

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apology and its help Wanted columns, but editor David Skidmore

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said a second apology would not be run. He said

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the incident was being used to bring attention to a

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host of complaints by local black organizations. The six phony

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ads had been accepted by a junior staff member and

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were not approved by the newspaper senior staff. The hoax

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was discovered after a search for the man who placed

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the ads. It was learned that the ads originally appeared

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in a South African newspaper and that they were placed

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in oppositions to South Africa's racial policies. Two break ins

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at Rockville, Maryland's Richard Montgomery High School resulted in incredible

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six hundred and fifty thousand dollars in damages in nineteen ninety.

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Included in this figure was damaged to the library, computer

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storaging administration offices. In addition, gas jets were opened in

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the chemistry laboratory, filling the school with natural gas, threatening

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an explosion. According to news reports, the culprits, in an

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00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:21,599
effort to implicate white supremacist skinheads, drew swastika is on

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00:52:21,639 --> 00:52:25,440
the walls and books and life threatening anti Semitic messages

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00:52:25,519 --> 00:52:31,000
signed by Nazi youth. Investigators soon found those responsible when

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two students reported another student's account of the destruction. Arrested

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were Jason Wesley Knight, who was black, and Stephen Lawrence Bonner, eighteen,

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who is Jewish. Bonner reportedly said that Knight wanted to

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destroy the school, and Knight's attorney, Myra P. Kovach, said

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00:52:48,320 --> 00:52:52,039
mister Bonnard took the lead. The incident, as intended, was

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originally reported as a hate crime. At San Bernardino Valley College,

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a campus officer brought KKK flyers to work in order

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to make others aware that such litterature was being circulated.

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The flyers were left on a table so other officers

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could familiarize themselves with them. However, when Arthur Johnson thirty seven,

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a black campus security officer, found one of the flyers

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in the campus mailbox in January nineteen ninety two, he

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00:53:18,159 --> 00:53:20,440
charged a fellow officers that placed it there as a

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00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:25,039
form of harassment. Later, he confessed to placing the flyer

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in his mailbox himself. News reports noted that quote Johnson's

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00:53:30,360 --> 00:53:35,360
accusations prompted an FBI investigation and sparked complaints about alleged racism.

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Reached it home by phone. Johnson declined to say much.

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I want to make all the right moves, said Johnson,

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a five year veteran of the campus police force. Let

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me see what their hand is going to be. You know,

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I'm no fool or nothing. You know, I had a reason.

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Chancellor Stuart Bundy commented that the affair had had taken

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a serious toll in the college. That department has been

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totally demoralized, the board of trustees has been charged as race.

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He said, all right, so next time we get together,

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start on chapter five and yeah, I hope you're getting

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something out of this. And I think at this point

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if nothing is really just showing the genesis of where

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we are now. One of the things I'm looking at

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00:54:22,199 --> 00:54:28,679
in this is that all of these people are claiming

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00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:37,000
victim status when they're basically many of them, like the

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girl at Emery, it's probably there as far as part

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00:54:40,599 --> 00:54:44,159
affirmative action. A lot of them probably don't even belong there,

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00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:49,599
and they're playing the victim card when they're not a victim.

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Some of us, when we talk about the way you know, Europeans, whites,

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00:54:57,280 --> 00:55:01,239
Christians are being treated, we get accused of playing the

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victim card. Yet you can watch the evening news, you

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00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:16,199
can watch cable news, and they're openly declaring a war

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on a white population. They're saying they're doing it. I mean, imagine,

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I know, imagine if the roles were reversed and pointing

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out hypocrisy or anything like that is just old at

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00:55:31,639 --> 00:55:34,559
this point. But if that was white people on the

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00:55:34,599 --> 00:55:38,960
TV talking about how, you know, black people are no

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00:55:39,039 --> 00:55:45,920
good and their time has come, you can just imagine.

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But no, they're openly calling out white Europeans, Christians, white men, women,

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00:55:54,840 --> 00:55:58,280
conservative women, women who want to stay home and have children.

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00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:05,639
It's not you're not playing the victim when you can

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00:56:05,719 --> 00:56:09,960
present over and over again, you know videos that have

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00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:13,280
been compiled where they just show that white people need

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00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:26,679
to be destroyed. This isn't victim. We just have to

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understand where we are, understand who we are, and figure

856
00:56:37,039 --> 00:56:42,039
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