{"id":403291,"date":"2021-04-09T10:58:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T14:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=403291"},"modified":"2021-04-09T10:58:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T14:58:25","slug":"hate-crime-hoax-outrageously-racist-graffiti-sparked-days-of-protests-a-black-student-wrote-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hate-crime-hoax-outrageously-racist-graffiti-sparked-days-of-protests-a-black-student-wrote-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Hate Crime Hoax: Outrageously Racist Graffiti Sparked Days Of Protests. A Black Student Wrote Them."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhate-crime-hoax-outrageously-racist-graffiti-sparked-days-of-protests-a-black-student-wrote-them%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=403291&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1082.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The absurdity of the messages should have been the first hint that these were not written by someone who genuinely believed them.<\/p>\n<p>Graffiti messages that included phrases like \u201cwhite power\u201d and \u201clet\u2019s kill all N*****s on campus\u201d and that sparked days of protest at Albion College in Michigan were actually written by a black student, MLive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/jackson\/2021\/04\/student-responsible-for-racist-graffiti-found-in-albion-college-dorm-officials-say.html\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On April 5, students from the college started tweeting about the dozen-or-so \u201cracist incidents\u201d that had occurred the previous week, referring to the messages. As the Post Millennial <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/hate-hoax-black-student-responsible-for-racist-graffiti-at-american-college\">reported<\/a>, a since-deleted tweet from one student included photos of the graffiti, calling the messages \u201cblatant racism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The messages included phrases such as \u201cwhite lives matter\u201d, \u201c666\u201d atop a Star of David, and references to the Klu Klux Klan, among others. Discovery of the messages prompted days of protests from students, who boycotted classes in the name of racial justice.<\/p>\n<p>On April 6, after reviewing campus security footage, a 21-year-old black male student was brought in for questioning by the Albion Department of Public Safety. The student reportedly admitted to writing most of the graffiti, with the surveillance footage supporting his statements. Police Chief Scott Kipp told MLive that the student was released after questioning and that after the department has completed its investigation, the Calhoun County Prosecutor\u2019s Office will determine if any charges should be filed related to the incident. Charges are unlikely in such a case, as fears of being called racist abound even when a student has committed a hate crime hoax.<\/p>\n<p>On Twitter, Albion College said the student was acting alone, but rather than providing a teachable lesson to students about committing such hoaxes, the school demurred, talking about \u201ca significant history of racial pain and trauma on campus.\u201d The tweets suggested the school needed to do <em>more<\/em> to fight racism, even though the charges of racism were false.<\/p>\n<p>Further, the school did not acknowledge that the student who wrote the racist and anti-Semitic messages was black, allowing those who did not read news articles to assume the perpetrator was indeed a racist white person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know the acts of racism that have occurred this week are not about one particular person or one particular incident. We know that there is a significant history of racial pain and trauma on campus and we are taking action to repair our community,\u201d the school <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/albioncollege\/status\/1379909910775795714\">tweeted<\/a>. \u201cWe will change and heal together as a community, because we are committed to doing the work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This incident is merely the latest in a long list of examples where claims of racism \u2013 or sexism \u2013 on campus have turned out to be hoaxes. In November 2020, The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/hate-crime-hoax-black-teen-painted-own-suv-with-anti-black-lives-matter-messages-trump-support-in-apparent-insurance-fraud-scheme\">reported<\/a> that a black teenager who claimed to have found racist messages on his SUV had written the messages himself. Earlier that year, another student who claimed to have found racist messages on their vehicle was also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/hate-crime-hoax-student-claims-he-found-racist-notes-on-his-car-police-say-he-wrote-them\">determined to be the culprit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just students who commit the hoaxes. An Oregon politician claimed he received a racist letter, but it was determined he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/hate-crime-hoax-oregon-politician-claimed-he-received-racist-letter-he-wrote-it-to-himself\">wrote the letter to himself<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The absurdity of the messages should have been the first hint that these were not written by someone who genuinely believed them.Graffiti messages that included phrases like \u201cwhite power\u201d and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311909,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1082.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Hate Crime Hoax: Outrageously Racist Graffiti Sparked Days Of Protests. 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