African-American millionaire finds note with racial slur in hotel room

NY Post ^ | July 7, 2018 | John Aidan Byrne

[Steve_Seattle]

"Yes, it’s probably a hoax, but unless it is allegedly hotel staff, how does someone sneak in their room, unless they breakdown the door, bringing all kinds of attention to themselves? How does a perfect stranger even know who is staying in a certain room? Does a millionaire even bother staying at a cheap hotel? It doesn’t pass the smell test."

Excellent points. It almost certainly has to be a hoax or an inside job.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Get real. Even if legit, it ain’t front page news. It’s a racial slur, not a death threat.

Yeah, if I were him I’d be angry - so what?. Get over it and get going. This is not an earth shaking event. To read this crap, you’d think it was a prelude to genocide.

[9YearLurker]

If this really is how it went down, what would give them the idea it was someone other than housekeeping?

[Steve_Seattle]

"Get real. Even if legit, it ain’t front page news. It’s a racial slur, not a death threat."

That was my initial reaction. The hyper-intense reporting was also strange, the way the reporter used the term "racist creep," which is not exactly neutral journalism. Given the timing, I wonder if this is a hoax intended to place blame on Trump's recent opposition to affirmative action.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

HOAX

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I wonder if they wrote “you’re” or “your”.

[9YearLurker]

https://www.bucknell.edu/news-and-media/current-news/2018/march/bucknell-receives-5-million-for-diversity-initiatives-and-construction

[Mears]

“It’s a racial slur, not a death threat.”

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Exactly,and involving the police is a waste of taxpayer money.

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[PCPOET7]

this is a nothing burger....I can understand complaining to the hotel but why is it in the media. this could be just the fact that he is a lousy tipper and the staff has a lousy racist that got stiffed on a tip. there was no threat just name calling. My guess is the staff has an idea of who it is but how is it news worthy. people get treated shabbily by hotel staff happens all the time. This should of gone no further then a review on Yelp.

[CaptainK]

The perpetrator wrote "you're".

[gigster]

I'm waiting for the obligatory photo of Gabby Johnson in Blazing Saddles on the roof yelling: "The Sheriff is a*******!

[nopardons]

Then the father did it; plain & simple...or he knew that he couldn't pull it off ( if the son did it ) facing the cops.

None-the-less, this story is NOT for real!

[antidisestablishment]

That’s a keeper!

[RetiredTexasVet]

Unless they were staying in a Motel 6 they should have checked the cameras and discovered who put the note there. Thinking hoax.

[euram]

There have been thousands of these hoaxes over the last 20 years, this one smells rancid to me.

[Chewbarkah]

Almost all hotels have electronic card entry systems that track the exact times rooms are accessed and by which cards. These “guests” were away for a short, indefinite time period (”breakfast”). If a racist moron left the note, he/she would have to be capable of:
1) accessing the room undetected;
2) being on scene unnoticed at the precise moment the Davis duo decided to go out.
3) abbreviating “You are” as “You’re” rather than Yure, your, etc., the typical usage of illiterates.

Diagnosis: Hoax, almost certainly by the son, who wants to be relevant like daddy.
Speculation: Hotel management knew it was a hoax, and subtly offered to let them walk rather than “pursue the matter”, getting rid of race grifters for the cost of some Room Points, leaving the hotel to rent the room to a paying customer.

Random thought: Odd that the note says “You’re a …” in the singular when there were two men. Almost as if one wrote the note for the other to find.

[BobL]

I ALWAYS default to hoax...unless there’s absolute proof otherwise.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“The business executive has donated $5 million to his alma mater, Bucknell University, for a new building and for minority recruitment.”

Well, there ya go! Your Alma Mater KNOWS you’re worth well more than a $5 Million ‘token’ contribution.

No good deed goes unpunished. Sucker. ;)

[hanamizu]

July 4th hate crime in their hotel room during a Florida vacation.
2-by-5 post-it note reading, “You’re a N—-R.”

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Leaving a racist note is a crime? I can understand the man and his son being upset, but a crime? Breaking and entering his room, that may be a crime, but when did leaving a post-it note, no matter what is written on it become a crime?

[deport]