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Remember when, during the 2008 presidential campaign, a young woman named Ashley Todd carved her own face? She claimed that a large Black man assaulted and robbed her with a knife as he threatened her for supporting John McCain.
Now we just learned that Bethany Storro, the woman in Vancouver WA who was hospitalized with a terrible acid burn to her face, just confessed that the injury was self-afflicted. People came running to support her, since she spoke of forgiveness and said she was grateful she still had her eyesight.
"God is watching over me," Storro, of Vancouver, told CNN affiliate KATU in Portland, Oregon, at the time. "I believe in him. That his hands are on me and I can't live the rest of my life like that -- in fear. I can't let what she did to me wreck my life."
I always suspected this woman was lying, but why did she blame her attack on a Black woman? Is it because it's so easy to convince Americans that a person of color is responsible for such a horrific crime?
This is not "racism in the age of Obama." It's racism, period. Susan Smith, the woman in SC who killed her own kids around 13 years ago or so, claimed a Black man carjacked her and abducted her kids. I know there are other stories like this before Obama took office, and there will unfortunately be those that happen after he's out of office.
This is not "racism in the age of Obama." It's racism, period. Susan Smith, the woman in SC who killed her own kids around 13 years ago or so, claimed a Black man carjacked her and abducted her kids. I know there are other stories like this before Obama took office, and there will unfortunately be those that happen after he's out of office.
True, but I guess this had a different effect on me because I've never read about people actually mutilating their own faces.
I would bet Obama how wishes he had never even heard of the rev Wright.
What does this have to do with people who accuse a person of a different race of committing a terrible crime?
Although your comment is off-topic, it makes me wonder how many people who like to talk about Reverend Jeremiah Wright and Obama's association with the minister of a United Church of Christ are the same who say Obama is a Muslim.
What does this have to do with people who accuse a person of a different race of committing a terrible crime?
Although your comment is off-topic, it makes me wonder how many people who like to talk about Reverend Jeremiah Wright and Obama's association with the minister of a United Church of Christ are the same who say Obama is a Muslim.
The title of the thread includes "Racism in the age of Obama." Fair game. Not off topic by any stretch.
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