[TomKnighton] Time and time again, we’re told we live in a racist nation. We’re told that white people are so racist that the entire system is rigged against minorities.In fact, white people are so racist, they can’t even carry out their own hate crimes. It seems that we expect black people to do that for us.
What am I talking about? Well, this:
A school in Sacramento, California, suspended two black students after fake money containing racist imagery against black people circulated throughout the campus last week, the Sacramento Bee reported.
WHAT ARE THE DETAILS?
Sacramento City Unified School District officials told KOVR-TV the fake money handed out Tuesday at Kit Carson International Academy was for buying fried chicken and alcohol and contained the N-word as well as a derogatory image of an African-American.
The Bee said Principal LuTisha Stockdale wrote in a now-deleted Facebook story post, "I’m sooooo pissed!!!!! To answer your question 2 Black students made these and were passing it around." The paper said efforts last week to reach Stockdale were unsuccessful.
"I’ve been on an emotional roller coaster today. This is the third time we’ve had perpetrators of a racially motivated incident identified as African-Americans," Sacramento attorney Mark Harris — contracted last year by the district as a diversity, equity, and inclusion monitor — told the Bee. "It’s pretty bad when our kids, for whatever reason, think that it would be popular for them to have a negative depiction of our own."
It’s not just at this school, either.
In fact, it seems pretty much every "hate crime" I’ve seen reported in the news turned out to have been either nothing at all—like ropes supposedly being nooses—or were actually false flag-type hoaxes.
My only conclusion is that since there aren’t enough actual "hate crimes," black men and women have decided that they have to pick up our privileged slack and do what white folks apparently believe they’re too good to do.
I’m sure there will eventually be an op-ed all about how black folks have to perpetrate their own hate crimes because white people refuse to do their own work.
Seriously, this is a problem, if for no other purpose than it makes it harder to accept true acts of racist vandalism as real.
The Little Boy Who Cried Wolf was a cautionary tale, after all; one that some of these students should do well to learn.
Racism still exists. I know it and you know it. I’m not interested in pretending it doesn’t.
But you only benefit the actual racists with this kind of nonsense. It means if they do something like this, people are far more likely to just roll their eyes and move on instead of actually trying to find the racists.
Frankly, I’ve never understood the "false flag" thing in a situation like this. I get why a nation might consider such an operation, but for private individuals to try and pretend there are racists everywhere, obviously knowing it can’t be as prevalent as they’re trying to present, just makes no sense to me.
Especially since they tend to be found out sooner or later.
So, to these students—three times in just one school, mind you, I say congratulations. You’re giving all the racists around you all the cover they could ever want. Absolutely brilliant work, dipsticks.