It’s so predictable by now the headlines write themselves. A “minority” population member claims to be fighting the good fight against some kind of oppression. And then the activist is found to be a thief or a con artist.
It’s been six years since minor actor Jussie Smollett [1] told the world that he was walking along the streets in Chicago at 2 a.m. when he was accosted by Trump-supporting thugs. Smollett, a gay actor who appeared in the Fox drama Empire, claimed that the “assailants” asked him if he was that “f*ggot” from the show Empire before putting a noose around his neck, pouring bleach on him, and telling Smollett that he was in “MAGA country.”
It’s hard to say which was less believable, this story, or his claim that he was on his way to Subway for a sandwich on foot in the wee hours in the middle of winter.
Then there’s NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace. In 2020 he got himself a bucket load of outraged sympathy for a “noose” [2] that he claims he found hanging in his NASCAR garage. Because it’s *totally* normal and customary in the 21st century for racist white people to sneak into garages and make nooses. We see this so often it doesn’t even seem newsworthy, right?
Of course, and as always, there was no noose, because these lurid tales of 1920–style racism from black celebrities are always lies. There was a rope in Wallace’s NASCAR garage. It did have a loop. Because it was a standard door-pull [3].
Let’s bring this grift up to date with some recent news about Black Lives Matter. This fine selfless gentleman, who headed up the BLM chapter in Atlanta, Georgia, was just put away in prison for 42 months. Seems he was stealing charitable donations to BLM to pay for his own fancy house, personal travel, and “luxury items.”
Get a load of Tyree Conyers-Page. This guy made other people call him “Sir Maejor Page.”
