Posted on 09/15/2022 7:41:22 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Last month, Rachel Richardson—the only black starter on the women’s volleyball team at Duke University—leveled a shocking accusation. She said that during her team’s August 26 match against Brigham Young University, fans inside the BYU arena in Provo, Utah inundated her with racist abuse and threats.
After the match, 19-year-old Richardson told her godmother, Lesa Pamplin, about the incident. Pamplin is a criminal defense attorney running for a county judgeship in Texas, and was not at the game—but the next day, she published a tweet that rocketed the story to national attention: “My Goddaughter is the only black starter for Dukes [sic] volleyball team. While playing yesterday, she was called a [n-word] every time she served. She was threatened by a white male that told her to watch her back going to the team bus. A police officer had to be put by their bench.”
The tweet is no longer available, but it racked up 185,000 likes before it was archived. LeBron James himself responded: “you tell your Goddaughter to stand tall, be proud and continue to be BLACK!!! We are a brotherhood and sisterhood! We have her back. This is not sports.”
Richardson’s story also spread via her father, Marvin Richardson, who is Deputy Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and who spoke with multiple outlets on behalf of his daughter. In an August 27 story about the incident in the New York Times that named him but not his daughter, he described an alarming, potentially violent scene. Despite an onslaught of slurs, he told the Times, his daughter thought the safest choice was “to keep her head down and continue playing.” ...
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Except it didn’t happen.
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“Go spank yourself, because you’re bad”
Media sez, Spank me, spank me!
EVERY hoax the press ‘falls for’ damages conservatives - whites - or Republicans. ]
They never fall for a story that might hurt democrats.
It’s not that they’re stupid - it’s that they’re corrupt. The New York Times and Washington Post and the MSM WANT to be ‘tricked’ so they can reach out and hurt powerless Americans in the name of white liberal elites and their black democrat pets.
“Mob Think”
Nothing will be done to this entitled POS princess who dragged BYU and their students through the racial swamp.
Noosecar , hands up don’t shoot, the gloves don’t fit.... all lies
Disbar the mom and fire the dad. Seriously.
I'm all for it.
I don’t think the media is falling for anything. I think they’re entirely complicit, and their agenda trumps the truth.
There needs to be something done about the USC women’s head basketball coach cancelling a series with BYU. After she was confronted with the fact this was a hoax and asked if she would reconsider her decision to cancel the games she refused. She stood by her decision because of the allegations- not because of the truth.
Nah, the media never falls for a hoax, everything is intentional with them, they’ve been in the lying business for many decades.
They are the new aristocracy. They get to say/do what they want. Seriously.
“How the Media Fell for A Racism Sham”
They didn’t fall for it, they got EXACTLY what they wanted out of it.
At some point we need to accept the above.
‘There should be real consequences for Rachel Richardson creating this lie and slandering everyone attending the game.’
come now; don’t you know that black females are sacrosanct, and inerrant...blessed are they amongst woman...
The media doesn’t “fall” for these hoaxes, they actively encourage them and then joyfully spread the lies far and wide. When the lies are exposed as nothing more than yet another hoax, the media never apologizes, they just move on to the next hoax. They are well aware of the fact that most people don’t actually read the stories. Put the lies on the front page or at the top of the news broadcast, that is what people will remember. Either don’t report that it was just a hoax or bury the story. They then feel that they’ve achieved what they wanted to achieve. How many times have we heard the hoax about Trump saying, “white supremacists are good people” despite that being a boldfaced lie, but we still hear it 5 years later.
Sue
Shameless.
If this lying basketball player has been allowed to stay on the team?, that’s a mistake. She’ll only keep spreading negativity and promoting division. The smarter girls on that team will stay away from her, lest their well meaning remarks get twisted to support the next false flag of racism.
I hope she doesn't win, she would make a terrible judge.
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