Looks Like Another Hate Crime Hoax
By • 4/1/08A noose showed up on black Columbia Teachers College professor Madonna Constantine’s door last October. Constantine is claiming that it was a hate crime, but the grand jury investigating the case is suspicious. It turns out that Constantine was under investigation for plagiarism.
Last month, Teachers College announced that Constantine was responsible for two dozen incidents of stealing the work of a faculty member and two students under her tutelage, including lifting passages from their dissertations and hijacking their ideas. Constantine has denied the charge…
The revelation that Constantine had been under university review provides a possible motive for a sympathetic friend to consider placing a noose on her door - thinking it could whip up support for her, sources said.
There’s a list a long, long list of stories on hate crime hoaxes at American Renaissance.
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I think the thing that we need to do, more effective than criminal penalties, is to shame these hoaxers. Shame is an extremely effective tool. Unfortunately, we have almost become a society without shame, but not quite. If manipulated properly, and I use the word “manipulated properly but with regret, this could be a very powerful tool to stop hoaxes and all manner of other crimes against our people. The trick is to bring it to bear effectively.
Shame is the tool being used against us in Political Correctness; it has absolutely no other power at all. It is completely hollow, because even the power to shame through PC is contrived, and if we simply deny it, it goes away. But we have allowed ourselves to be manipulated to the point that we accept it as dogma and dare not to go against it (at least most do).
We must find a way to use shame against those who would work against us. Think hard about this matter. It is the most powerful, as well as nonviolent, means at our disposal. We must bring it to bear.
By on 4/1/08 at 7:47 pm
To Dr. D, regarding:
“I think the thing that we need to do, more effective than criminal penalties, is to shame these hoaxers. Shame is an extremely effective tool.”
Wrong!
You cannot shame the shameless and that is exactly what Comrade Constantine is, a shameless black criminal.
In some respects, if our movement is to be successful, we need to take one principle into account, that through the political and legal systems there is an offered chance to have vengeance against our enemies. This worthless black “professor” has slandered our race to cover up her academic thefts and libels; she and many like her kind, encourage hatred and violence against whites, through their promotion of a phantom “racism.” They have demanded that so-called “hate crimes” be penalized beyond normal punishments for criminal activity; thus, if a white mugs a black (no matter how ridiculous that likelihood is) and they use the wrong twist of phrase, they can be given much greater sentences.
Yet, if a group of blacks commits some planned atrocity against white victims, it is never classified as such? Yet, if such happens, not only do blacks from their so-called “community” often support them and celebrate what they have done, white “officials” openly twist themselves into pretzels to deny that racial hatred was the motivating factor!
Thus, not only will I call for a campaign against hate-hoaxers to be condemned to serving a sentence in prison equal to what the actual “hate crime” by a white perpetrator would see handed down, but also that when an actual incident of violence against whites occurs such as Knoxville, that we be equally vociferous in demanding it be considered racially motivated.
End of story!
By on 4/2/08 at 7:00 pm
John PM —-
Sir, you are simply wrong. You clearly know not whereof you speak.
We are talking about an academic here, a person who lives and breaths in a very small atmosphere where pride is the oxygen of that atmosphere. Anywhere pride is a key element, shame is a possibility. All that is required is to find a way to bring about that shame. If you re-read my post, you will notice that I used the words “manipulated properly;” this is the key.
If she can be properly shamed and disgraced before her peer group, her world will crumble and she is effectively silenced permanently. And this does not require large amounts of legal expense or the cooperation of some half wit political appointee judge. It only requires the proper determination of what will constitute shame in this circumstance and then how to cause it to come about.
Even among the “shameless,” there is almost always pride and therefore the possibility to induce shame. It is just a matter of the proper manipulation of things. This takes skill in the presentation of the facts and the appearance of those facts.
I stand by what I said in the first place. Shame is the tool we are failing to use that is far, far more effective than any sort of legal battles. We must find a way to make it work for us.
By on 4/2/08 at 7:55 pm
To Dr. D, regarding:
“I stand by what I said in the first place. Shame is the tool we are failing to use that is far, far more effective than any sort of legal battles. We must find a way to make it work for us.”
And what greater shame could be doled out to an arrogant “academic” hate-hoaxer, then a stint in prison?
A place where, “a person who lives and breaths in a very small atmosphere where pride is the oxygen of that atmosphere,” is reduced to wearing cheap blue uniforms and scrubbing the toilets that crack dealers (that they once celebrated as “entrepreneurs”) defecate and vomit in?
In your own way, “you clearly know not whereof you speak.”
Enough said!
By on 4/2/08 at 9:34 pm
No, John, you really don’t get it.
It would be a long, expensive, and very uncertain prosecution to make anything happen through the legal system. There is a very high likelihood that nothing of significance will happen to this person in the way of punishment. Even if a conviction eventually results, you can be assured that a martyr will have been created. That is entirely counterproductive.
You really are out of your depth.
By on 4/2/08 at 11:35 pm
OK, John PM and Dr. D, settle down. If the only thing you disagree about is how to dole out the harshest punishment to hoaxers, you don’t disagree about much. Also, surely we can agree that, morally speaking, it would be legitimate to send Constantine to prison even if that is not currently a practical possibility. As for shame, the hoaxers will get it in buckets if the grand jury concludes that the crime was a hoax.
By on 4/3/08 at 12:40 am
Please refresh my memory. When through history has a black ever been shamed into doing anything?
By on 4/3/08 at 6:08 am
Ian, I think you have evidently missed the point. We disagree about a great deal.
I have not been talking about “how to dole out the harshest punishment to hoaxer,” but rather talking about a much broader strategy for dealing with the problems that afflict our society. Hoaxes are just one of the many problems that we face today.
Shame was long one of the most effective deterrents to misbehavior that society has had. The elimination of shame from society has been a goal of the Left for a long time, and to a significant degree it has been accomplished. This is a point made by John PM.
The point I was making is that even though shame in the traditional sense has lost its effect, as long as there is pride, there is the possibility for shame. Only in some self-effacing group is there going to be no sense of pride, but this certainly does not apply in most of society today, whether it be white, black, brown, or green folks we are talking about. Therefore, shame can be used effectively if it is used creatively.
And in the process, no martyrs are created. Look at the situation with the cop killer Abu Jamal, in prison on death row for well over 20 years, and recently awarded a new sentencing hearing. He is hailed as a martyr. This is what you get when you try to work through the courts.
John PM is entirely uncivil. He made a proposal for how to deal with a problem, and I made another proposal. His response was to shout “Wrong!” and he ends his post with “End of story!” as though this is all that could possibly be said. Such arrogance!
When I said to John PM, “You clearly know not whereof you speak.” I meant just that. I do know whereof I speak since I am retired, having been a full Professor of Engineering. His snide parroting this phrase back to me reveals just how ignorant he really is.
John PM reveals the sort of irrational anger and blind rage that characterizes those with very dark skins. He is seething with fury, not unlike Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
When I have said nothing inflammatory, I will not be told to “settle down,” Ian. I am finished with The Inverted World. You can keep folks like John PM and his sort; I just don’t have time for that. Please remove me from your mailing list.
By on 4/3/08 at 10:55 am
I can still recall (as the original story story broke) how Ms. Constantine was heralded by the white dupes as she stepped outside to give yet another insolent, victimhood speech most blacks seem to have committed to memory.
My main concern is that this story is not buried. Then again that’s up to us.
By on 4/3/08 at 11:38 am
John PM,
I think Dr. D is right that you were uncivil to him, and you should apologize. Of course we’re going to have disagreements here, but posters shouldn’t address others in an insulting manner, such as saying “Wrong!” and “End of story!”
I’m going to be on the lookout for language like this in the future.
Dr. D,
I hadn’t noticed John PM’s incivility when I first approved his comments, and you had not brought it to my attention before. I think you ought to give me a chance to deal with the problem before you abandon IW.
I’m also somewhat hurt that you value this site so little that you would abandon it after one uncivil exchange with another commenter.
By on 4/3/08 at 2:30 pm
I agree with John PM. Hoaxers should be criminally prosecuted and given a prison sentence commensurate with the magnitude of the hoax they’ve perpetrated. Tawana Brawley, Crystal Gayle Mangum, Al Sharpton, et al.,(the list is endless) should be sent to prison. Madonna Constantine should lose her job then be brought up on the same type of charges as someone who shouts “FIRE!” in a crowded theater. Look at the hate and racial tension she generated by her selfish act! She should be punished both criminally an civilly according to the maximum extent of the law.
By on 4/3/08 at 2:31 pm
To Ian Jobling,
Here is yet again another hoaxed “hate crime,” interestingly using the new favorite prop of blacks guilty of auto-atrocity, a noose. Funny, that all of a sudden the fools in congress are contemplating anti-noose laws and Chimp-in-Chief Curious George, is all for it as well.
Personally, I think we should start petitioning congress for anti-hoax laws that dole out punishments equal to the hate crime penalties that an actual perpetrator would be subjected to. These hoaxes, designed to cover up the criminal activities of blacks, are direct assaults on our people and we need not have to put up with it.
Here would be yet again an action alert/activism project well worth considering, Dr. Jobling!
By John PM on 4/1/08 at 5:56 pm