It’s pretty obviously a sloppy hoax. He probably mailed himself those nasty letters too. Juicy Sommelier is such a drama queen; and using all this for leverage, publicity and a pay raise from his TV show producers. They ended up writing him out of the show if I recall. Dude’s got problems.
I imagine there is a lot of mental illness among those who perpetrate hoaxes like this acting on a narrative of racism that is very rare. Look at the number of these in colleges around the country (fake nooses on doors, etc).
When you tell people that something is widespread and examples are rare it is only natural that people may manufacture it for any number of reasons - attention, greed, or just plain crazy.
We have wealthy and mostly white elite that is desperate to push the narrative that we are a racist nation when that does not reflect the reality most of us see and observe. We have entire college departments with multiple majors in grievance ideology.
Our society is just now beginning to really experience what this means as “executives” at Salvation Army, Coca-Cola, and pretty much every Fortune 500 Company as well as governments and schools push their indoctrination out to the rest of us.
It is really disgusting that people want to tear apart our nation and divide us but make no mistake.... it is effective in politics because enough people believe it. It brings in tens of millions to schools and provides high paying jobs to academia and throughout society.
The democrats use it every four years with outlandish statements, manufactured events (Charlotte), and any emotional plea they can make to keep those votes. It is corrosive and destructive to the fabric of our country.
E pluribus unum indeed.