When all you have is racial victimhood, that's the card you play. I'm surprised media outlets aren't more skeptical when they see stories like this.
Blavity, which is presumably a black racial grievance clearinghouse, ran the banner headline, 3 BLACK FEMALE STUDENTS AT SUNY ALBANY ATTACKED BY WHITE STUDENTS ON BUS
A less alarming headline appears at the Albany Times Union, titled UAlbany students allege racially motivated assault on CDTA bus.
The narrative would have you believe that three black women were riding a city bus, minding their own business, when a group of ten to twelve white people started harassing and attacking them.
This incident was reported to Albany police at 1:20 Saturday morning. Might there have been alcohol involved? Even one of the "victims," Asha Burwell (@ashaburwell) wrote on Instagram that the police were skeptical because they "smelled like weed."
Two of the "victims" were treated at Albany Medical Center for "minor scrapes on their faces." Asha Burwell insists that she was "jumped." I won't link her tweets because her account will probably be locked or deactivated today, or her tweets deleted.
My skepticism rose to an even higher lever when supern***** Deray Mckesson tweeted his support. "Let's Get Free," he tweeted.
The video feed from the bus will reveal whether these accounts contain any truth. What I believe is that these women got into a fight, either with an outside group of people, or between themselves. I don't believe that the attack was unprovoked. It's possible that once the fight was joined, people shouted racial epithets.
God help anyone involved if they are white, because America will stand by while their lives are destroyed. They will be expelled from school and polite society. If they are white, they should have meekly accepted a beat-down from the three black women.
There will the obligatory protest today at the campus. The protest will probably be used to present a list of non-negotiable demands to University President Robert J. Jones. He published a tepid statement that read, in part, "Now is the time to recommit to our principles of inclusivity and diversity and send a strong message that we will not tolerate bias, hatred and violence in our University."
Not nearly enough. The message could be written in Black Liberation Theology boilerplate, and it still wouldn't be enough.
Because inclusivity.
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