Once again a widely reported incident of bigotry turns out to be hoax (but that discovery gets much less attention)

This went up earlier today, but I’m posting it here with 47 minutes to spare:

Target of Racist Graffiti Wrote It, Air Force Academy Says (NYT)

Then there was Al Sharpten and Tawana Brawley.

Yeah, it's never happened where a white person falsely accused a black person of something bad.

https://theundefeated.com/features/being-black-in-a-world-where-white-lies-matter/

Last week, Vanity Fair reported that the woman who in 1955 accused 14-year-old Emmett Till of sexually harassing her in a Mississippi store, leading to the black teen’s gruesome murder, fabricated her account of that day.

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Whether it’s a woman in Michigan falsely claiming that a group of black men kidnapped, beat and raped her; another woman claiming a black man kidnapped her 3-year-old and 14-month-old sons (whom she actually killed); the infamous Amanda Knox accusing a black man of the heinous murder she was initially convicted of; or even a man claiming that black men stabbed his wife to death (whom he actually killed). In each instance, the initial story was believable because of the troubling belief that a black man is capable of such a thing.

DaveSchmidt said:

This went up earlier today, but I’m posting it here with 47 minutes to spare:

Target of Racist Graffiti Wrote It, Air Force Academy Says (NYT)

Sure, but the OP says we should be upset because it didn't show up earlier in the day.  While you and I may think it's perfectly fine that a news report be prepared, written, and published at a normal pace, that's not good enough for today's online news consumer.  They're all demanding like Veruca Salt: "I WANT IT NOW!!!"

Just sharing my story as bub has shared his. Not taking sides because I  do believe it happens on both sides.

About 20 years ago I was driving on Broad St in Newark around 2:30 a.m. right by the train station when this poor old black man was slammed by a car.  It threw him flying across the street and wedged him under a bus stop shelter.  I immediately jumped my truck on to the sidewalk to assist the man.  I called 911 and reported it and in the meantime I held his neck and head, covered him with a blanket and tried to keep him as comfortable as possible until the ambulance arrived.

I was the only white person around, but several black people came over to look and a couple helped me.

When the police arrived and asked what happened a young black male said to the police "that f***ing white guy hit him with his truck".  He wasn't even there when it had happened but was quick to point to me.  The police pulled me away and asked for my license, insurance, registration, and asked if I had been drinking, they also wanted to know what I was doing down there at that time of night.  I tried to explain what happened but this guy kept insisting it was me.

Thank God another black male said he saw it all and it wasn't me.  He then asked the one who was accusing me "what the hell are you doing man?  This white guy jumped out to help one of us,  how many other white people do you see stopped and helping?  Why would you do that?" To which he replied " f**k him, he is a whitey." 

I could not believe what transpired.  I thanked the guy who defended me while the other guy stuck to his story And the rest of the crowd just stared at me with hate.  The police looked at my truck and concluded that I did not hit the man.   

I remember that night like it was yesterday.  

So while the majority of incidents are the reverse of mine, it does happen from both sides. 

nohero said:

DaveSchmidt said:

This went up earlier today, but I’m posting it here with 47 minutes to spare:

Target of Racist Graffiti Wrote It, Air Force Academy Says (NYT)

Sure, but the OP says we should be upset because it didn't show up earlier in the day.  While you and I may think it's perfectly fine that a news report be prepared, written, and published at a normal pace, that's not good enough for today's online news consumer.  They're all demanding like Veruca Salt: "I WANT IT NOW!!!"

Har. I feel the same way about results from nighttime Rutgers football games that are missing from the next morning’s paper.

DaveSchmidt said:

nohero said:

DaveSchmidt said:

This went up earlier today, but I’m posting it here with 47 minutes to spare:

Target of Racist Graffiti Wrote It, Air Force Academy Says (NYT)

Sure, but the OP says we should be upset because it didn't show up earlier in the day.  While you and I may think it's perfectly fine that a news report be prepared, written, and published at a normal pace, that's not good enough for today's online news consumer.  They're all demanding like Veruca Salt: "I WANT IT NOW!!!"

Har. I feel the same way about results from nighttime Rutgers football games that are missing from the next morning’s paper.

Agree with Dave Schmidt about the west coast yankee games...  lol 

But I would rather more papers took their time to get the facts and then write the story vs what what we often see with the rush to be first and worry about being correct some other day.

You guys must all be old.

The world does not move on print deadlines anymore. Updates are 24/7. I get weekend NY Times to get on-line access. Often I throw out the paper still in the blue bag because everything in it has been on line as early as the Tuesday before.

Burner said:

You guys must all be old.

The world does not move on print deadlines anymore. Updates are 24/7. I get weekend NY Times to get on-line access. Often I throw out the paper still in the blue bag because everything in it has been on line as early as the Tuesday before.

I read online too but whether in print or online, all stories should be fact checked before printing and that rarely seems to happen anymore.

And when our team wins a big game we like to read online and in print.  

DaveSchmidt said:
 

nohero said:

DaveSchmidt said:

This went up earlier today, but I’m posting it here with 47 minutes to spare:

Target of Racist Graffiti Wrote It, Air Force Academy Says (NYT)

Sure, but the OP says we should be upset because it didn't show up earlier in the day.  While you and I may think it's perfectly fine that a news report be prepared, written, and published at a normal pace, that's not good enough for today's online news consumer.  They're all demanding like Veruca Salt: "I WANT IT NOW!!!"

Har. I feel the same way about results from nighttime Rutgers football games that are missing from the next morning’s paper.

I will cop to having made that complaint in the past, about the Star-Ledger cutting back and not getting later news into the paper version that arrives on Sunday.  I will do so only if you also remind me WHEN that was, because I think it's been a few years and I had forgotten about the MOL discussion about that. 

[Edited to add] Took a try using the MOL search and found it!  September 14, 2014.  I was responding to someone noting that the delivered paper didn't have the coverage of the game the night before.  I wrote, "The sports section had a HUGE feature on run-up to, and the significance of, the Rutgers-Penn State game, which would be appropriate and informative except for the fact that THE GAME HAD ALREADY BEEN PLAYED." And you replied.

Burner said:

You guys must all be old.

The world does not move on print deadlines anymore. Updates are 24/7. I get weekend NY Times to get on-line access. Often I throw out the paper still in the blue bag because everything in it has been on line as early as the Tuesday before.

Not old, just aware that speed doesn't mean accuracy, and breaking news isn't like the features that are prepared in advance to include in Sunday's paper.

I must really be old.  I wasn't even aware of the original accusation until now.

Burner said:

You guys must all be old.

The world does not move on print deadlines anymore. Updates are 24/7. I get weekend NY Times to get on-line access. Often I throw out the paper still in the blue bag because everything in it has been on line as early as the Tuesday before.

Why am I not surprised that you don't recycle. 

Tawana Brawley 

Starsong said:

Tawana Brawley 

Now you are demonstrating the opposite of the OP's thesis: The discovery of one hoax that has gotten more attention FOR THE LAST 30 YEARS than the many real incidents of bigotry. (So much attention, that you repeated it, even though it was already mentioned several posts up the page.)