{"id":75045,"date":"2017-09-30T09:36:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T13:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75045"},"modified":"2017-09-30T11:10:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T15:10:49","slug":"air-force-academy-racial-slurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75045","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Academy racial slurs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day, five Black Air Force Academy prep school students awoke and found racially-charged messages scrawled on the boards outside their rooms. The New York Times<\/a> reports;<\/p>\n

The episode attracted national attention when Tracye Whitfield, the mother of one of the students, posted a photo on Facebook of the message, which paired the words \u201cgo home\u201d with a racial slur. \u201cIt\u2019s a nerve-racking feeling,\u201d Ms. Whitfield told a local news station in Colorado Springs, near where the academy is located.<\/p>\n

The preparatory school, usually called the \u201cprep school,\u201d prepares candidates for admission to the academy proper. About 240 students, called \u201ccadet candidates,\u201d attend the school each year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Superintendent of the Academy responded;<\/p>\n

In a five-minute address in front of the academy\u2019s 4,000 cadets and 1,500 staff members, Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria affirmed the Air Force\u2019s belief in \u201cthe power of diversity\u201d and insisted that \u201csmall thinking and horrible ideas\u201d had no place there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In recent months incidents like this have happened across the country. Many times the incidents turned out to be folks just stirring up trouble.<\/p>\n

For example, from Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n

…an Indian-owned store in Charlotte, N.C. was set afire, a rock thrown through the window and a racist note left behind. It read, in part: “We need to get rid of Muslims, Indians and all immigrants.” It was signed, “White America.”<\/p>\n

Days later, police arrested a suspect. He was not a white supremacist, nor a Donald Trump supporter, nor Caucasian. He was an African-American man, 32-year-old Curtis Flournoy. Surveillance video showed him lighting the fire.<\/p>\n

In January, a black restaurant server in Ashburn, Virginia claimed a customer wrote on the receipt, “Great Service, don\u2019t tip black people.” The customer later maintained the slur was written by the waitress herself, who was upset with a one cent tip the customer left in response to her poor service.<\/p>\n

And in December, an 18-year-old Muslim woman who claimed that three men attacked her on a New York subway and tried to pull off her hijab was charged with filing a false report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The National Review<\/a> writes about a few others. Fake Hate Crimes<\/a> lists hundreds of incidents. <\/p>\n

LeBron James, the basketball player, reported to police<\/a> that someone had painted racial phrases on his gate. The Los Angeles police say that they found no evidence of the phrases, or no video evidence from James’ cameras that the crime ever happened. <\/p>\n

I hope whoever did this at the Air Force Academy is caught and punished severely – WHOEVER it turns out to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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