BY VICTORIA TAFT |
P J MEDIA
AP Photo/Markus Schreiber
Someone really should do something about all the racism
on college campuses. Among those Leftist institutions there appears to be more
racist-y racist racism than anywhere else in rest of the United States of
America. People worried about racism should think about pulling their students
out of these Leftist institutions that produce all these racists.
Take the recent Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
incident, in which a black female student discovered sticky notes scrawled with
racist messages on her dormitory door. A racist sent the student racist text
messages and someone even sent racially insensitive death
threats. Horrible.
The victim reported the incidents on Jan. 23, 2022.
Students were in an uproar. The College Fix reports that students were unslakable
in their thirst to expel and ruin the person or persons responsible. Protests
ensued.
The Fix reported that the notes said “DIE BITCH” and
“BLACK PEOPLE DON’T BELONG.” Evidence of a racist text message thread with the
victim in the fall of 2021 were turned over to campus police.
Local news covered the student protests calling for the
scalp of a “white female student” who was at that point the subject of an
investigation. The head of the Black Student Union demanded she be kicked out
before the results of the investigation were returned because “I feel like
she shouldn’t be on campus period. Because you threatened to lynch students on
this campus.” He predicted that the black student population at the school
would dwindle because of this incident.
The entire SIU Edwardsville campus apparatus was deployed
to mitigate the damage to the students’ psyches. Police, housing, the campus
EEOC office, Title IX officials, and even the Secret Service immediately sprang
into action to soothe students and punish the perpetrator.
The white student was cleared, and we now know who the
perpetrator is, according to charging documents.
The perpetrator, it turns out, is also the victim.
Authorities charged Kaliyeha Clark-Mabins on Friday with
three counts of disorderly conduct for reporting a hate crime. Clark-Mabins
stirred up the campus with the hoax and created division among the community. A
fellow student’s reputation was sullied because she was wrongly accused. Her
peers wanted her tossed off campus. Where does she go to get her reputation
back?
The administration claimed that such hate-crime hoaxes
are “isolated and rare” but did note that this incident should remind everyone
“how important it is to preserve and protect due process and fairness.”
As I pointed out in PJ Media in December after a jury convicted Jussie
Smollett of making up his “hate crime,” there are so few racist incidents that
people have to make them up. “[As] commentator Clay Travis once said of Jussie
in 2019, ‘The demand for racist hate far exceeds the supply of any racist hate
incidents.’ Because of this, we are seeing one racial hoax charade after
another.”
People just aren’t happy until they become a victim —
the highest form of power on the Left.
