Ravenwood - 03/19/04 06:30 AM
Kerry Dunn, a California psychology professor, was preparing to give a lecture about racism when her car was vandalized. The words "shut up" were scrawled on it, and it was covered with racist and anti-semitic slurs. But as Scott Norvell points out, it wasn't really the 'hate crime' that she made it out to be.
Police say a California professor's claim that her car was vandalized in a racially motivated hate crime have turned out to be a hoax, reports the Los Angeles Times.Police will likely charge her for filing a false police report, and she could face felony charges of lying to federal investigators. There was no mention of it, but if she also tried to collect insurance damages, she could face fraud charges as well.Kerri Dunn, a psychology professor at Claremont McKenna College, was preparing to give a lecture about racism on campus when she claimed someone scrawled the words "shut up" along with racist and anti-semitic slurs. She said she was targeted for her outspokenness about injustice on campus.
Now, police say she vandalized that car herself.
Campus leaders last week had condemned the vandalism as a hate crime, shut down the Claremont consortium of colleges for a day of anti-hate rallies and called in FBI investigators.
Dunn's supporters claim that even if she did lie about the situation, she still raised awareness about hate crimes. They think the end justified the means. If only we could convince gun grabbers like Sarah Brady to help out their cause by staging their own shooting deaths.
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This isn't a new phenomenon. Thirty-two years ago, when I was a senior in college, a black girl -- a rather well-placed, prestigious black girl who'd been elected Treasurer of the student government -- staged an elaborate racial-persecution hoax (against herself, of course) with the help of several white students. They roped quite a number of other students -- all of us white -- into multiple all-night vigils and watch-standing arrangements, to catch her fictitious persecutor.
When what they'd done was fully exposed, they claimed that it was 1) a psychology experiment, 2) an attempt to raise consciousness about racial problems on campus, 3) not meant to hurt or inconvenience anyone.
Behold the true face of racialist politics as practiced by the Good Intentions Brigade.
Me! ME! Pay attention to MMEEEEEEEE!!!
grrrrr . . how much did that broad cost in taxpayer money? Somebody take it out of her hide!!
Posted by: Persnickety at March 19, 2004 12:45 PMI went to Harvey Mudd College, another school in the Claremont Consortium along with CMC, and this incident, along with a previous one, reflected very poorly on the entire consortium. People were starting to wonder if the whole place was a latent hotbed of racism. The arrogance required to paint us all with that brush simply for attention is galling.
She was so eager to prove her twisted worldview that she artificially created a hostile environment, an undoubtedly put many minority students under stress, simply for self-validation.
Posted by: Aaron at March 19, 2004 2:28 PMWomen aren't wrapped too tight. Just buy flowers and hope for the best.
Posted by: Ron Hardin at March 20, 2004 3:52 AMI just thought the last line was well said, these people don't really surprise me much. They are getting too boring for contempt.
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