The ‘Hustle

You might have read about the alleged attack by a black “Obama supporter” in Pittsburgh, perpetrated on a young white woman from Texas, who was volunteering in the Keystone State.

Well, today the truth comes out.

It was a lie. A hoax.

The backstory: A woman named Ashley Todd, from College Station, TX, volunteering in Pittsburgh with the McCain campaign alleged that on Wednesday, she was attacked at a bank ATM while retrieving cash, in the East End section of the city. She was relieved of $60, and when the perpetrator saw her McCain/Palin bumper sticker on her car, the miscreant punched her, pushed her to the ground, and beat her about the head and shoulders.

Then, in a fit of inexplicable political awareness, the villain, described as a dark-skinned, black male, 6-foot-4 and about 220 pounds, produced a “dull butter-knife” and proceeded to carve an upper-case “B” — presumably for “Barack” in to the right cheek of the victim.

She refused medical treatment.

Police investigated, and a story was leaked to the scurillous Drudge Report website, after which a media frenzy resulted. But the lack of medical treatment and other problems plagued police. They were disturbed by inconsistencies in her story, administered a lie detector test, and requestioned her Thursday.

Then today, Pittsburgh Police released a statement saying the woman lied and fabricated the whole mess.

Aside from the obvious wrongs of lying to police, creating a crime from whole-cloth, and the use of a political dirty trick, Ms. Todd had to use as a foil the most race-incendiary target she could: a black man.

And people wonder why black folks are angry? Why couldn’t this woman have said her attacker was a white guy or even Latino?

With the considerable anxiety many caucasians feel about the potential
rise of a black president, this trollop’s clearly race-baiting
allegation was designed stoke the fires of racial animus through guilt
by association: black man criminal -> supporting black man
candidate -> white people will be victims.

She was looking to create her own little Willie Horton situation for Pennsylvania GOPers to hang their hat on.

Susan Smith, Charles Stuart, and others have found easy acceptance of their stories of black men victimizing defenseless white people by doing the unspeakable. Of course, the truth as we later learn, is usually far different.

Unfortunately for society, these claims are all-to-easy to make and still all-to-easily believed by a plurality of white folks.

I guess this situation just proves the addage, “the more things change, the more they stay the same.”

This post is tagged Barack Obama, Crime, Dirty Tricks, Lies, Pittsburgh, Politics, Race, Race in the Race, Smears, Victims