fakehatecrimes.org

fake hate crimes: a database of hate crime hoaxes in the usa



The purpose of this site is to compile a comprehensive database of the false reports of "hate crimes" committed (mostly) in the USA. It builds on the work of Laird Wilcox, whose Crying Wolf (PDF) is the original book on this subject. The books Hate Crime Hoax and Hate Crimes: Criminal Law & Identity Politics are also recommended.

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202. The article in the Boise Weekly says "Rachel Dolezal, who is black, says she’s been a target of a se... 2009-09-01 Coeur d’Alene ID

title
Black like me? - Civil rights activist's ethnicity questioned

name
CDA Press

authors
JEFF SELLE and MAUREEN DOLAN

url
http://www.cdapress.com/news/local_news/article_385adfeb-76f3-5050-98b4-d4bf021c423f.html

summary
One of the first articles to 'out' Rachel Dolezal as white. Since then, it's turned into one of the biggest topics whirling around the internet. She claimed to be of half-black parentage, and rose up through the civil rights industry, became chair of Spokane's Office of Police Ombudsman Commission and president of the city's chapter of the NAACP. Then her parents claimed she has no African American in her at all.

date read
2015-06-13

date published
2015-06-11


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