“The administration claimed that such hate-crime hoaxes are “isolated and rare”
Notice how they lie in order to cover for the hoaxers. Also, notice how the media never apologize for spreading these hoaxes far and wide, they just move on to the next hoax. Everyone should keep in mind that the Covington Kids hoax came just a few weeks before the Smallett hoax. That is how brazen they are with their lies.
“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
― Booker T. Washington