CollegeFix: Was the incident that recently provoked a massive protest at Clemson University based on a hate-crime hoax?
The answer to that question remains elusive as campus officials refuse to identify the people who hung bananas from a banner commemorating the plight of African Americans in the Civil War at South Carolina’s second largest university.
The act was widely perceived as a racist gesture and precipitated an eight-day sit-in by racial-grievance protesters last month.
Asked point-blank by The College Fix this week whether the incident was a hate-crime hoax, a university spokeswoman replied via email with only the following: “The incident has been investigated. There were no criminal charges applied to the individuals who came forward to express their involvement, and the case has been resolved.”
Perhaps now we can find out if the black students can actually peel those things with their feet.
We have made a world where
a harmless, stupid joke turns
people into mindless, foaming
mouth, carpet chewers. Shame
on us all.
Clemson, out them and kick them out.
Why is there no punishment for perpetrating a hoax?
Claudia, Because it’s not a hoax “hoax” if a minority does it…the cisheteropatriarchy and its privilege FORCED them to do it. Get it?!?
(nyuk nyuk nyuk)
Harry Belafonte
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMigXnXMhQ4
hardest hit.
This reminds me of the Monty Python skit on how to defend yourself against someone who attacks you with a banana or a pointed stick. Anyone care to drop a 16 ton weight on these idiots?
If the perpetrators are white, I think they would be punished and their photos spread all over the internet and their lives threatened. I think it was a false hoax perpetrated by black students; the race baiting, perpetually aggrieved sort.
The local Cincinnati news media refuses to identify wanted criminals by their color – if they’re black. (but they’ll show mug shot photos) However, they do identify wanted WHITE criminals (what few there are) as being white, therefore identifying black criminals by the process of omission. I’m sure they don’t “get it”.
Hurts foot-a-ma-ball recruiting.
Good grief! Bananas! Frickin’ bananas!
This country is going to be invaded by clowns and everyone will be on the ground crying.
Ban Bananas! There is no other way forward, Ban Bananas! The Banana is the most hurtful of all fruits. “You can have fruit, but no one needs a Banana.”
Sheesh – bananas are pretty wimpy if the idea is some sort of African symbolism. Much better would have been, say, photos of the aftermath of one of Winnie Mandela’s home jewelry parties (the ones focusing on necklaces), or piles of Tutsi body parts surrounded by grinning Hutus.
Yes! We have no bananas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDd8shcLvHI
I’m guessing they used bananas because the banner wouldn’t support the weight of the watermelons.
😛
“I loathe bananas.”