Posted on 09/09/2022 8:19:40 AM PDT by rktman
By now, the story has gone all around the world, as such stories tend to do. As PJM’s Rick Moran noted when the story broke, it all started at “a women’s volleyball game played at BYU in Utah where a black Duke University player alleges that fans hurled racist taunts at her.” But as is so often the case with such incidents, “almost immediately, the story that Rachel Richardson, the only black starter on the Duke volleyball team, told began to fall apart.”
And now it has come to light that Richardson’s godmother, who was the first to tell the story to the world, has a history of spreading hate hoaxes and hate-filled anti-white rhetoric. Color me shocked: this story turns out to be yet another Leftist attempt to shore up its sagging narrative of pandemic racism in the United States.
Rachel Richardson’s godmother is named Lesa Pamplin. She is a lawyer in Fort Worth, Texas, where, according to the Post Millennial, she is running for a seat as circuit court judge. Having a goddaughter who has been a victim of high-profile racist abuse is ballot-box gold for Leftists in this age of the glorification of victimhood, and it was Pamplin who broke the story of Richardson’s ordeal, tweeting (Pamplin’s tweets are now protected): “My Goddaughter is the only Black starter for Dukes volleyball team. While playing yesterday, she was called a n****r 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.”
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Good on them, but it would have been better if they hadn't jumped on the "racist" bandwagon to condemn the student, based on uncorroborated hearsay, in the first place.
until they are sentenced to the jail term they lying about, it will continue...
Story vanished from Frontpage location so here is a cached link:
Thanks to grundle
That is weird. Guess someone got a phone call from some lawyer in the DFW area code? Thanks for the linkage.
It may be sweet she believes the unsupported word of her Goddaughter. But she’s running to become a judge and those potentially coming before ‘her’ bench deserve better than ‘sweet.’ They deserve a dispassionate, impartial, thorough investigation of the evidence. Which this incident shows she’s not disposed to make. Rather it shows she’s unfit for the bench, even though she may be perfectly qualified to stand before a bench as an advocate, so long as the other side has its own competing advocate. I hope candidates running against her run ads pointing out her failure to be judicious in this nationally high profile incident.
Bottom line: there is so little genuine racism that they have to fake it.
Did she stab her boyfriend to death?
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