Author Colin Flaherty Commentary Video "Racist note left on CMU dorm door, students unite to denounce hate" "Black man fined $2,000 for racist graffiti that rocked ‘quiet’ Michigan community" "For second time in two years, racist slur at Kansas State was a hoax, police say"
https://www.abc12.com/content/news/Racist-note-left-on-CMU-dorm-door-students-join-together-to-denounce-hate-500109092.html
By Amy Hybels | Posted: Fri 12:02 AM, Nov 09, 2018 | Updated: Fri 1:08 AM, Nov 09, 2018
MOUNT PLEASANT (WJRT) (11/08/18) - Students at Central Michigan University gathered for a peaceful protest Thursday evening after a racist message was written on a whiteboard outside the door of three African American students who live on campus.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/racist-graffiti-eddie-curlin-eastern-michigan-university-n-word-kkk-racism-ypsilanti-a8363616.html
Clark Mindock New York @ClarkMindock
Tuesday 22 May 2018 14:57
A black man who spray painted racist messages against African Americans at a Michigan college has been fined $2,000 for the action, which he admitted to doing.
Eddie Curlin, a 29-year-old former student of Eastern Michigan University, found out about his punishment after pleading guilty to malicious destruction of property. The incidents occurred late last year and into the spring, when the three messages of hate shocked the otherwise quiet campus in Ypsilanti.
The first of those three messages came in September, when students were shocked to find “KKK” written in red, white, and blue paint on the side of a dormitory alongside a threat that told African Americans to “leave” the school.
The second came on Halloween when a similar message was scrawled on a different building near a monument to Reverend Martin Luther King Jr, this time using the n-word to tell black students to leave.
The final ugly message was left in a men’s restroom stall.
“It really has rocked our community,” Judith Kullberg, a political scientist at the school, told The Washington Post. “In this whole context of a very tense presidential election, it has raised anxiety here considerably.
Campus police have said that the over 1,000 hours of investigation have revealed that the incidents weren’t motivated by politics, or even race.
“It was an individual item done by one individual, Robert Heighes, the campus chief of police, told the student newspaper the Eastern Echo.
The United States saw a disturbing increase in hate crimes during President Donald Trump political ascension in 2016, after years of decline in the number of reported cases.
The number of those crimes jumped by nearly 300 incidents in 2016 compared to 2015, according to data from the FBI released in November. All told, there were 6,121 reported incidents that year, compared to 5,850 the year before.
https://www.kansas.com/news/local/education/article221373355.html
BY JASON TIDD November 08, 2018 04:50 PM Updated November 08, 2018 07:55 PM
For the second time in two years, the person who reported a written racist slur found on or near Kansas State University has admitted that it was a hoax, police said.
