At Albion college, Michigan, the students, faculty and administration were agog and aghast that someone had placed brazenly racist graffiti against Blacks and Jews in a dormitory.
MLive: Racist graffiti found in college dorm condemned by Albion community leaders
Albion College, city of Albion and local NAACP leaders came together virtually Tuesday to stand with Albion College students and the community against racist graffiti found on a dorm wall.
Robert Dunklin, the NAACP’s Albion branch president, condemned the graffiti, which included racist epithets and multiple references to the Klu Klux Klan.
“Students have been dealing with issues like COVID-19, locked in their dorms and now they have to deal with racial graffiti. It is not acceptable in this community. And we are here to stand with this community and the community of Albion College,” Dunklin said. “Whoever it is, they’re best to come forward or get out of town.”. . .
The NAACP has been fighting violence against Black people since its founding in 1909, and the organization will continue to fight any time there is an injustice, said Yvonne White, president of the Michigan State Conference of the NAACP.
“To the Albion NAACP, we stand with you. To the Albion citizens and community, we stand with you as well,” White said. “We will fight until we win.”
As one may suspect by now, the perpetrator was not, as it turned out, some White Supremacist type.
MLive: Student responsible for racist graffiti that was found in Albion College dorm, officials say
Burying the lede just a tad there.
Once you hit the second paragraph you find out it was a Black student that did the deed:
Albion police brought the 21-year-old Black male in for questioning on April 6, according to Chief Scott Kipp. The student admitted to creating most of the graffiti, and video evidence from Albion’s Campus Safety Department confirms the statements made by the student, Kipp said.
No follow up in the article to see if the NAACP will condemn this fake hate crime and advocate that the Black student is run out of town. It will be interesting to see if charges actually pursued - as they should be - and also if the college will truly stand against hate and make his now temporary suspension permanent.
Of course the college instead of condemning racial hoaxes that cause division and create racial tension, instead called for generalized woke racial healing:
“We know the acts of racism that have occurred this week are not about one particular person or one particular incident. We know that there is a significant history of racial pain and trauma on campus and we are taking action to repair our community,” college officials tweeted. “We will change and heal together as a community, because we are committed to doing the work.”
"Not about one particular person or incident" - really? Will "doing the work" include teaching people not to create fake hate crimes, perchance? Don't count on it.
