It’s amazing the difference a few weeks has made in the City of Lunenburg:
Was it only a few weeks ago that we learned how racist the Town of Lunenburg in general and the football team in particular? That the football team in was responsible for painting: “Knights don’t need niggers” on the house of a bi-racial family with a young and very talented football player on the team who was subject to a spate of bullying?
Didn’t we have editorials decry the racism of the town, didn’t the governor weigh in, weren’t commentators talking all about this.
Didn’t Good Morning America weigh in?
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and compare it to the Miami Dolphens scandal?
The Lunenburg story has echoes of the rookie hazing scandal that has enveloped the NFL’s Miami Dolphins.
Veteran Richie Incognito was suspended indefinitely on Nov. 4 after rookie Jonathan Martin turned in voice mails and text messages that allegedly showed Incognito using the N-word to describe Martin and threaten his family, according to ESPN.
The controversy came to light after Fox Sports reported that Martin and other rookies had been forced to pay thousands of dollars for dinner tabs and vacations for more veteran members of the team.
And didn’t the Lunenburg Football team forfeit the rest of the games and have their traditional Thanksgiving game cancelled?
Well that was only fair, after all you can’t let racism like that stand. As far as all right thinking people were concerned they had it coming….
…what a difference a few weeks and an actual investigation makes.
First the Football team is cleared:
Police in Lunenburg, Mass. say high school football players were not responsible for racist graffiti found on the side of a junior varsity player’s home.
So with the football team cleared, the question remains: Who is responsible for the racist graffiti sprayed on the home?
And the parents who had plenty to say before …
Chief Jim Marino said the Phillips parents are not talking to police anymore.
…are now singing a different tune:
Anthony Phillips returned to the end of his driveway to wait for his children to get off the school bus. Asked about rumors that he might have been involved in the incident, Phillips replied, “That just shows you how racist this town is.”
And Today the worm turned…big time:
The Boston Globe:
Police search Lunenburg home where graffiti found
Police focus turns toward victim’s mother in Lunenburg racist graffiti case
The Worcester Telegram and Gazette:
Search warrant issued at Lunenburg home where racist graffiti was reported
The Lowell Sun
Investigators focusing on mother of Lunenburg graffiti victim
And the Sentinel & Enterprise :
Investigators are focusing on the mother of a Lunenburg teen whose home was spray painted with racist graffiti last month, according to court documents.
Former Lunenburg High School football player Isaac Phillips’ mother Andrea Brazier, replied “OK” when an FBI agent suggested she was the one who spray painted graffiti on the house, according to an affidavit.
The Sentinel has been all over this story from day one.
Now that the case has gone the full circle from outrage confirming liberal prejudices to yet another race hoax it’s time for the question to be asked
Where does the town of Lunenburg go to get their reputation back, where does the football team go to get their Thanksgiving game back and who pays for all the police, local state and federal that were used in the attempt to sell this BS?
And will the sites in Atlanta, Metro US, The UK Daily Mail, Sports Illustrated, Fox Chicago and the Huffington Post be reporting on these new developments with the same gusto?
Update: Stacy McCain links (sorry I hit the sack early last night and had the PC off) and he knows something (Bill Sparkman) about hoaxes
Ruh-roh. If she lied to the FBI, she could be in big trouble. But since when is it the FBI’s job to investigate racist graffiti? And if real racist graffiti is a federal offense, what is fake racist graffiti? The alleged hate crime was a big deal last month:
Two quick thoughts:
1. It really boggles the mind that someone would be willing to tar a group of teenagers, their families, a school and really an entire Town for the sake of a personal agenda. That degree of selfishness is incredible in its narcissistic depth.
2. If it turns out that the mother is the culprit she has done more damage to her son and her marriage than any amount of teaching or racist words could have done. And it will follow her son for years. How does a parent not realize that?
Update 2: Michael Graham reports Lunenburg school folks haven’t learned much:
Now, with egg splattered all over their faces, the Lunenburg administrators STILL INSIST they did the right thing!
“I never looked at the cancellations as punishment, although it was certainly viewed that way by many. In the end, the safety of students and attendees at the games was deemed as of paramount importance. At no time did I or any employee of the schools indict or implicate players,” said Lunenburg Superintendent of Schools Loxi Jo Calmes.
Lunenburg’s superintendent and high school principal defended the decision to cancel the rest of the football season amid allegations against the players of writing racist graffiti.
“I thought would I have brought my own kids to that game? And the answer is no way. Why? Because it wasn’t safe to play,” Principal Brian Spadafino said.
The Lunenburg high football game “wasn’t safe?” From what–marauding bands of spray-painters? Hordes of KKK members?
I think the next batch of town elections in Lunenburg are going to be very interesting.
Update 3: Ace finds the story.
Update 4: Liberty Unyielding notes that all “hate graffiti” is created equal in media eyes:
As an important aside on an unrelated case, about 50 miles away from Lunenburg High, Masslive.com revealed yesterday that three teens were in custody “in connection with 13 incidents in October and November where homes, churches and cars were either vandalized or set on fire.”
The article reads in part,
“Symbols, slurs, sexually explicit images and, in the case of United Church of Ware, an expletive directed at God and the words “Catholic burning,” were spray-painted…” [added emphasis]
This author can find no other mention in any other source of the anti-Catholic slur. Is the FBI involved in that case? Will this anti-Catholic incident be investigated as a “hate crime?”
I guess some targets of hate are more equal than others.
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