Those of a certain vintage may remember the case of Tawana Brawley, who was allegedly kidnapped and raped by the local branch of the Ku Klux Klan. Curiously, no one saw them riding off into the night clad in white sheets, because that sort of thing seldom happened in New York State, certainly not in […]
If you haven’t heard of Jesse Lee Peterson, you should check out his YouTube channel and his main website. You may not agree with his religious views, but he talks a lot of common sense about politics, especially about the media’s obsession with race, and the breakdown of family values. In some ways he goes […]
The phrase “hate crime” has been in common usage since only the 1980s, but actual hate crimes have of course been around a lot longer. So too have hate crime hoaxes. The most notorious such hoax of that decade was the Tawana Brawley case. The 1990s saw the two arguably worse hate crime hoaxes in modern history: the murder of Carol Stewart in Boston by her husband, and the murder of her two young sons by Susan Smith in Union County, South Carolina.
