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RACISM HOAXES 1-6
No. 1: The Duke lacrosse team (2006): Three white members of the Duke University lacrosse team were falsely accused by Crystal Mangum, a black student at North Carolina Central University, with having raped her. The charges were all fabricated, but the American media and Duke University faculty rushed to judgment and devoted months to smearing the three lacrosse players and Duke University itself as racist.
No. 2: UC San Diego library noose (2010): 'Student apologizes for noose in UC San Diego library' (Los Angeles Times). A 'minority student' was responsible for placing the noose in the university library. Previously, the Associated Press had reported, 'Anger boiled over on the University of California San Diego campus today, where students took over the chancellor's office to protest the hanging of a noose in a campus library.'
No. 3: Truck at Oakland's Corporation Yard (2014): 'A reported 'noose' tied to the back of a city truck in August, which stirred already simmering racial tensions at Oakland's Corporation Yard, was not an intended act of racial harassment, a city-commissioned report has found' (Mercury News).
No. 4: University of Delaware (2015): 'Nooses' Found Hanging on University of Delaware Campus Were Lanterns' (NBC).
University President Nancy Targett had earlier announced, 'We are both saddened and disturbed that this deplorable act has taken place on our campus.'
No. 5: The LSU noose (2015): It was widely reported that a noose was sighted at Louisiana State University leading to protests against racism there. It was later reported, 'LSU said a picture of what appeared to be a noose hanging from a campus tree Thursday was not what it appeared to be' (WBRZ).
No. 6: University at Albany (2016): 'A state appeals court has upheld the University at Albany's expulsion of a woman who along with two friends falsely claimed to be the victim of a racially motivated attack on a CDTA bus in January 2016' (Times-Union). The three black women had attacked a white woman and then claimed they had been racially attacked.Share
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