It was a cold Chicago night in 2019, and actor Jussie Smollett, a star of “Empire,”—a Fox show about a hip hop record label and the black family that struggles for control of it—decided to go out for a Subway sandwich, even though it was 1:00 a.m. and the temperature was 16 below zero.
Smollett told police that as he was going to the Subway sandwich shop he was confronted and beaten by two masked men who wore “MAGA” hats, yelled that “this was MAGA country,” yelled racist slurs at him, poured bleach on him, and put a noose around his neck.
But from the start, nothing added up about Smollett’s story. He asked the interviewing officers to turn off their body cameras. Chicago PD also said when they arrived at his apartment, Smollett was still wearing the noose he said the attackers had put around his neck; reportedly, he wore it throughout their entire 40-minute interview. He said he was on the phone with his manager when the attack happened, and the manager was the one who called 911 dispatch, but he would not turn his telephone over to the police.
Smollett’s story soon fell apart. The police discovered that Smollett had actually hired two Nigerian immigrant brothers, Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo, to rough him up, and then told police and many news outlets that he had been the victim of an extremely unlikely hate crime.
Although it was obvious early on that Smollett’s story was nonsense and that Smollett had wasted a lot of police time and resources with his tall tale, the Cook County District Attorney, Kim Foxx (yes, that’s really her name), decided to dismiss the charges against Smollett (reportedly at the urging of Michelle Obama’s former chief of staff and White House legal advisor, Tina Tchen).
But letting Smollett off rubbed a lot of people the wrong way, and they pushed back. Eventually Foxx was recused and the court overseeing the case appointed a special prosecutor, Dan Webb, both to prosecute Smollett and to look into the strange goings on at Kim Foxx’s office.
As most of you know, last Thursday Smollett was found guilty of five of six counts of disorderly conduct arising out of the hate crime hoax.
“Maybe the Chicago Police Department is not perfect, but I’ll tell you this, what they did on this case was extraordinary police work,” Webb said. “And the fact that this jury convicted him on virtually all counts was based on testimony from Chicago police officers and the Osundairo brothers, and I believe it’s a complete vindication of everything the Chicago Police Department did to thoroughly and conscientiously investigate this case.”
The usual communist outlets—the New York Times, the Washington Post, etc—will try to tell you that hate crime hoaxes are rare, but they are as common as dirt. Do a little research, and you’ll find many long lists of hate crime hoaxes.
A day after the 2016 presidential election, a female Muslim student at San Diego State University claimed to police that she had been assaulted and robbed by two men who “made comments about President-Elect Trump and the Muslim community.” Two months later, police dropped the investigation because the “victim” no longer wanted to cooperate.
The same day, another Muslim woman at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette claimed that two white men had assaulted her, robbed her, and snatched a hijab from her head. She described one of them as wearing a white Trump hat. A day later, investigators said she confessed to having fabricated the entire incident.
On Dec. 1, 2016, Yasmin Seweid, 18, told New York City police that three drunken white guys had taunted her about Trump’s election victory and tried to pull a hijab from her head on the subway as other passengers watched without intervening. A month later, she confessed that none of it was real. “Nothing happened, and there was no victim,” New York police said. The Daily News thereafter reported that Seweid had made up the story “because she didn’t want to get in trouble for breaking her curfew after being out late drinking with friends.”(Take solace, however, in knowing that Seweid’s parents, disappointed by her hoax, reportedly punished her by making her shave her head.)
In November 2016, immediately after Trump’s election, The Indianapolis Star reported that St. David’s Episcopal Church of Bean Blossom, Indiana, had been vandalized with graffiti on its walls. In black spray paint were a swastika, “Heil Trump,” and “Fag church,” an apparent reference to the church’s reputation within the community for welcoming gays. Six months later, 26-year-old gay man George Nathaniel Stang, an organist at St. David’s, admitted to police that he was the perpetrator. He had sprayed the graffiti because he was “disappointed in and fearful of the outcome of the national election.”
On Nov. 3, 2018, a synagogue in Brooklyn, New York, was defaced with graffiti spelling out “Die Jew Rats,” “End it Now,” and “Jew Better Be Ready.” After reviewing surveillance video that clearly showed the perpetrator, police detained 26-year-old James Polite, a black gay male who, as fate would have it, was highly active in local Democratic politics. Polite had worked as an intern in the office of Democrat city councilman Christine Quinn, a lesbian who in 2013 lost her bid for mayor. Polite’s job for Quinn included oversight of local hate crimes.
At Emory University, a black employee vandalized vending machines and wrote racist graffiti and swastikas; after he was caught, the university did not disclose the race of the employee.
A black woman pretended to be a 6-foot-tall white Klansman and sent death threats to her neighbors.
A black student at East Carolina University posted an invitation to a fraternity party that read, “No blacks.”
A black student wrote racist graffiti in Parkway Central High School in Chesterfield, Missouri; even after it was exposed as a hoax, the superintendent said that the culprit’s race “does not diminish the hurt it caused or the negative impact it has on our entire community.” Four years previously, an identical incident occurred.
Samantha Wells, a student at St. Olaf College, claimed that she had received a racist, threatening, note which threw the campus in turmoil and resulted in racist insults at whites. It was a hoax.
Michigan State University was in an uproar after a coed found a hangman’s “noose” in the residence hall. Police discovered that “the hate object” was actually someone’s shoelaces packed at the factory in a way that could seem to resemble a noose – but only applying substantial imagination. When it was first reported, the college president, Lou Anna Simon, said, “I want to recognize the courage it took for the student to report this incident.”
Fynn Ajani Arthur, a black student at Goucher College, wrote racist graffiti against Latinos and blacks (“all n**gers on campus would be killed”), including himself, with the usual KKK/swastika kitsch. The usual demonstrations took place before he was found out and arrested.
A sports team has Banana Fridays. They left the uneaten bananas in the locker room for whoever wanted them. A visiting black football team saw the bananas and howled that it was racist.
Dauntarius Williams, a Kansas State student, claimed to be the victim of racist graffiti. Student activists used the “incident” to demand a “multicultural center.” At the same college Broderick Burse found a racist note pasted to her door that she had posted herself.
A black child urinated on a 5-year-old black girl. A white man, a convicted sex offender, was falsely accused and arrested before it was revealed to have been a lie.
An unnamed Drake University student sent herself racist letters. “To demonstrate shared commitment to Drake University’s students of color, the campus community will join together to paint the Painted Street Black, a powerful statement of solidarity and anti-racism. This historic action is intended to be pivotal moment in university history.”
Toni Christina Jenkins, a black nursing student working at a restaurant, claimed to have found a racist insult on a lunch check. $10,000 was raised for her in the subsequent social media campaign. The defamed customer says she made the whole thing up and he is suing her.
The NAACP became involved in the person of one Rev. Jerrod Moultrie, who was stopped for a traffic violation and was subjected to demeaning racial profiling – a complete lie, as evidenced by the officer’s body camera recording.
The principals, assistant principals, and superintendents from both high schools in the Piedmont Unified School District jumped at the chance for indoctrination of faculty and students on the usual “systemic racism” claptrap when a children’s jumping rope was found in a tree and someone thought it was a “noose.”
Eastern Michigan University students saw KKK graffiti written on a dorm, having been made by a black felon named Eddie Curlin.
A Bowling Green State University student reported seeing a KKK person in a building – which turned out to be the dust cover for a piece of equipment.
Oberlin College was thrown in a panic when a KKK figure was sighted. The Atlantic wrote an article full of indignation. It was someone wrapped up in a blanket.
Just before the presidential election, a black church in Mississippi was set on fire and spray-painted with the words “Vote Trump.” The Washington Post and The Atlantic blamed it on Trump. The perpetrator was Andrew McClinton, a black member of the congregation.
Near Sacramento, Romey Kang’s face was beaten up by a “Caucasian man in a white shirt” for no other reason than “he didn’t like the color of my skin.” But then the “Caucasian man in a white shirt” became two “Caucasian men in a white shirt.” Then the two “Caucasian men in a white shirt” became three “Caucasian men in a white shirt.” Then, local security cameras showed that he was lying. Thanks to Yahoo and CBS, Kang received $20,000 through GoFundMe to help him get over the trauma.
At an auto repair shop cars were vandalized and swastika and KKK kitsch were written. Security cameras showed two black men doing it.
An Indian-owned business was set on fire in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, with the message, “Our newly elected president Donald Trump is our nation builder for White America. You all know that. We want our country back on the right track. We need to get rid of Muslims, Indians and all immigrants.” It was signed White American. The perp: Curtis Flournoy, a black man.
18-year-old Clifton Eutsey in Buffalo had a BMW that was vandalized with the usual racist and anti-gay kitsch, as well as a “Trump for President” message. Eutsey was arrested for insurance fraud and a host of other charges.
During Black History Month, a man spray-painted racial slurs on the Cecil B. Moore mural and at Brightside Academy and Habitat for Humanity in Philadelphia. Who was behind this racist, white supremacist outrage? A black man, according to videos at the location.
The leftist magazine ProPublica published a tear-jerking story about a 15-year-old black girl in Michigan who was sent to jail for not doing her homework. There were instant cries of indignation over this child being sent to jail for such a trivial matter, which reveals the “systemic racism” in this country. Except that in reality, her probation for a prior offense had been revoked. For years, she had been stealing, and assaulting her mother.
Police determined that Adwoa Lewis had fabricated her story that she had been harassed in New York by four Trump supporters who later slashed her tires.
Rep. John Thompson in Minnesota tried to avoid getting a parking ticket by claiming that a cop pulled him over for “driving while black.” He was driving with a suspended driver’s license.
A “noose” was found in New York City, Andrew Cuomo: “I am disgusted by the recent discovery of a noose – the epitome of hatred and an evil icon of our nation’s racist past – in Harlem’s Marcus Garvey Park.” Cuomo’s later statement read, “New York is no place for hate, and the progress we’ve made as a society will not be undone by the work of a few cowards.” It was a rope that was used in construction scaffolding.
In Houston, a black girl was gunned down. A hack journalist and BLM supporter by the name of Shaun King fingered Robert Cantrell as the murderer simply because he was white. Cantrell committed suicide. It turned out that the murderers were two black men doing a drive-by shootings. King expressed no remorse over the man he wrongly accused.
A black cadet at the Air Force Academy Preparatory School wrote racist graffiti in the dorm room, which created the usual media frenzy and had Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria pompously posturing before the cameras, so full of indignation.
A Hispanic waitress in Texas accused deputies of leaving racial slurs on a check.
15 FBI agents were dispatched to the Talladega, Alabama, racetrack after black NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace claimed to have found a noose in his garage. The “noose” was a garage door pull rope that had been there for several months before Wallace showed up, and was configured exactly like every other garage door pull rope on the property.
The lesson is that the Jussie Smollett-type episodes are anything but rare. They are common.
Why? Because, as has often been stated, the demand for hate crimes far exceeds the supply. A whole infrastructure of corporate and institutional civil rights officers and vice presidents of diversity and inclusion has been created, and there’s really very little (legitimate) for them to do. They desperately need for there to be examples of good old fashion race hatred, and there aren’t nearly enough real incidents.
There are not enough real incidents because Americans are a very kind and decent people. We live and let live. Most of us would rather die than be involved in some sort of hate crime or racial slur. We not only would not commit a hate crime, we want blacks and other minorities to succeed; we are very aware of the bad racial past, and want fervently to make sure it stays in the past.
Of course, that doesn’t mean that there is no more racism and no more racists left in the world. Given the human condition, the fallen sinfulness of human nature, that will never be true.
What is true is that this is far from the “systemically racist” country the Marxist Critical Race theorists insist we are. To the contrary, our society is systemically anti-racist in a real, concrete sense (if not in the sense the Marxists use the term). We have laws against discrimination in housing, hiring, government contracting, public accommodations, and provision of other business services. As a practical matter, we discriminate in favor of blacks and minorities in college admissions. Society has been organized to ensure that any residual private racism will have no real world consequences. If we were not that kind of society, no one would bother to try racial hoaxes, much less try them by the scores and hundreds.
And that reality is why the Marxist must reject the whole liberal worldview that has long been the ideal of Western Civilization: equality of opportunity, equality before the law, and holding whites and blacks to the same standards of law and justice. They reject equality under law and equality of opportunity in favor of “equity,” meaning equality of outcome, meaning that everyone ends up the same after the game has been played.
But equality of outcome has never been achieved, can never be achieved, and all attempts to achieve it have led to murder on an unimaginable scale, to a pile of bodies stacked a hundred million high. The whole project is nihilistic, evil, and deeply satanic, and Christians should reject it with one voice.
Equity is in fact the original sin, the original iniquity, that was found within Lucifer: “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of assembly, in the far reaches of the north. I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.” Isa. 14:14.