If you are gonna pull a RACIST HOAX, spell the names right.

[Danno 1,228]

The Flaw in this Racial Hoax: She Spelled One Name Right--Her Own

Posted by Mark Bauerlein

Another racial hoax on campus surfaced this week, this one at University of Wisconsin-Parkside. WTMJ reported on Feb 2nd that a noose had been found in a residence hall on the previous afternoon, then threatening notes had been sent to the person who reported the initial incident the next morning, along with other African American students.

The university moved swiftly, with investigations and meetings involving UW-Parkside police, campus public safety officers, the "office of diversity and inclusion," and the dean of students. The university claimed that "the individual who reported the first incident is cared for," and administrators held meetings with 30 students "to hear their concerns."

One day later, WTMJ recounted student reactions. One targeted student said, "I'm all cried out. I don't know where to go from here." Another said, "Oh you scheduled to die in two days. I don't know where to go. I don't want to go to class. I don't want to graduate anymore. Why? Because I fear I'm going to die." The school beefed up security and added five UW-Milwaukee officers to patrol the residence halls. Students had to start signing in and out of the dorms.

Then came this story two days later. A student confessed that she made up the threatening letters, although she says she had nothing to do with the original rubber-band noose. She carried out the hoax, she claimed, because the original threat, the noose, wasn't taken seriously enough. (It isn't fully clear that the string of rubber-bands did, in fact, signify a noose.) She has been removed from campus and is facing charges of disorderly conduct and obstructing an officer. She sent one threatening note to herself, and one reason she was suspected by the police was that her name was the only name spelled correctly on the "hit list."

UW-Parkside Interim dean of Students says that "the school is re-evaluating how it handles racist incidents in the future." One wonders what this means. Meanwhile, we can speculate on how a student concluded that insufficient attention to a hate crime warranted upping the situation by fabricating death threats and bringing the entire campus under fear and surveillance.

It's a curious development. Think about it. The student didn't object to the presumed initial neglect by contacting the administration, contacting reporters, protesting to student groups, or in any other way working through channels to highlight how awful the "noose" event was. If she had, others would have listened and responded. But instead, she adopted the same type of crime, amplifying it to dangerous degrees, interrupting lives, mobilizing police forces, and prompting disturbing news stories. That she frightened African American students--we shouldn't dismiss their fear as overwrought; death threats are shocking--that she became the instrument of terror, and felt entirely right and proper in doing so speaks to more than just one individual's distorted sense of truth and justice. We should extend the case to the climate of race on college campuses today.

http://www.mindingthecampus.com/forum/2012/02/the_flaw_in_this_racial_hoax_s.html

http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/138688714.html

[luckytxn 2,264]

Should be glad a student can at least spell their own name correctly.

[Danno 1,228]

Should be glad a student can at least spell their own name correctly.

It is rather stunning a University student would do so little "home work" to get the names spelled right.... if in fact they struggled with spelling common names, It's not like most Black Americans have oddly spelled names.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Affirmative Action in action.

[Danno 1,228]

This was the funny part, someone actually gets paid to head up the "office of diversity and inclusion,"

I wonder what they are doing to create an inclusive atmosphere for Social conservatives?

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

This was the funny part, someone actually gets paid to head up the "office of diversity and inclusion,"

I wonder what they are doing to create an inclusive atmosphere for Social conservatives?

Promoting them in school when they can't read or write either? Had this young lady been back in the 8th grade where she belonged, learning to read and write, this would not have happened.

Instead her career is likely to be thing slike this, trying to get something for being "discriminated against" Obama's recent abandonment of the pricipal of requiring performance from schools is not going to help.