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A black Virginia Baptist minister who claimed he was the victim of a hate crime has pleaded guilty to setting his home and car on fire. Olander D. Cuthrell, 41, admitted that he poured oil and gasoline on the porch of his house back in March and set it ablaze. Cuthrell’s oldest son discovered the fire and extinguished the flames with water before it spread to the house. Cuthrell, a minister of music at Good Shepherd Baptist Church, pleaded guilty to a felony arson charge for setting fire to the house and to a misdemeanor arson charge for lighting the...

It is a measure of how successfully the United States has overcome racism that there doesn't seem to be enough of it to go around to satisfy the demands of race hustlers. Thus, we have the phenomenon of racism hoaxes metastasizing within the education industry. The latest example comes from New Jersey, where a 16 year black candidate for class president at St. Peter's Preparatory School in Jersey City sent himself racist text messages. Michaelangelo Conte of NJ.com reports: The black St. Peter's Prep student who purportedly received racist text messages warning him to drop out of the Jersey City...

The black St. Peter’s Prep student who purportedly received racist text messages warning him to drop out of the Jersey City high school's student government election sent the texts to himself, a school official confirmed last week. “The entire Saint Peter's Prep community is relieved that this extremely distressing incident has found closure, and we commend the various law enforcement officials for their diligent work on this case over the past months,” said school spokesman James Horan, who confirmed the result of the probe after its disclosure by a police source. The 16-year-old was running for president for the Student...