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Media go all-in on apparent volleyball racism hoax at BYU
Posted on: September 1, 2022 at 10:45:10 CT
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We were past due for another racial hoax. Sports media and Brigham Young University have apparently just helped Duke volleyball provide us with one.
The controversy started when the godmother of Duke’s only black starter, Rachel Richardson, claimed that a BYU fan called her the N-word every time she served. This controversy predictably blew up, and one fan was banned indefinitely from BYU games.
This story was picked up by professional race-baiters Jemele Hill (the Atlantic) and Mike Freeman (USA Today). ESPN bit on it, giving an interview to Richardson while ESPN personalities condemned the incident. It even bled into establishment media. CNN’s Brianna Keilar gave a segment to Richardson’s father, who smeared the entire BYU crowd as racist due to the “atmosphere” in the arena. It was picked up uncritically by NPR, ABC, NBC, the New York Times, and the Washington Post.
The problem with this? None of it appears to be true.
BYU police reviewed footage of the fan who was banned and determined that he did not yell any slurs when Richardson was serving. The fan wasn’t even present when Richardson was serving the first time, and he was on his phone during Richardson’s second serve. Those were the only two times she served in front of the BYU student section. A BYU student newspaper reached out to several people in the student section, none of whom had heard any slurs.
Not a single person has since come forward to report to BYU police that they heard the alleged slur. Black members of BYU’s basketball team were also in the student section, yet they did not react and have not come forward to say they heard anything.
And Richardson’s godmother, who started the whole controversy? She locked her Twitter account after people discovered her history of racist tweets directed at white people. She also happens to be running for office in Texas.
The story never made sense on its face, but the media did not care. A black player claims to hear a slur, so the media assume there was one. The media pressure scared the cowards at BYU into banning one fan indefinitely without evidence, just as it scared the Colorado Rockies into threatening to ban one fan whom the media claimed was yelling the N-word at a game — even though no one in the crowd even reacted to it. (That fan was actually yelling the name of the mascot, but establishment media didn’t care to find that out before reporting on it.)
Even the scenario that some other fan was the one yelling the slur seems unlikely, given everything we know now. We know thanks to BYU police that the fan who was banned certainly didn’t say it. But there will be no reckoning or accountability for our media, because raising a five-alarm fire over any reported incident of racism, no matter how unlikely or unproven, is all establishment media do these days.
We were past due for another racial hoax. Sports media and Brigham Young University have apparently just helped Duke volleyball provide us with one.
The controversy started when the godmother of Duke’s only black starter, Rachel Richardson, claimed that a BYU fan called her the N-word every time she served. This controversy predictably blew up, and one fan was banned indefinitely from BYU games.
This story was picked up by professional race-baiters Jemele Hill (the Atlantic) and Mike Freeman (USA Today). ESPN bit on it, giving an interview to Richardson while ESPN personalities condemned the incident. It even bled into establishment media. CNN’s Brianna Keilar gave a segment to Richardson’s father, who smeared the entire BYU crowd as racist due to the “atmosphere” in the arena. It was picked up uncritically by NPR, ABC, NBC, the New York Times, and the Washington Post.
The problem with this? None of it appears to be true.
BYU police reviewed footage of the fan who was banned and determined that he did not yell any slurs when Richardson was serving. The fan wasn’t even present when Richardson was serving the first time, and he was on his phone during Richardson’s second serve. Those were the only two times she served in front of the BYU student section. A BYU student newspaper reached out to several people in the student section, none of whom had heard any slurs.
Not a single person has since come forward to report to BYU police that they heard the alleged slur. Black members of BYU’s basketball team were also in the student section, yet they did not react and have not come forward to say they heard anything.
And Richardson’s godmother, who started the whole controversy? She locked her Twitter account after people discovered her history of racist tweets directed at white people. She also happens to be running for office in Texas.
The story never made sense on its face, but the media did not care. A black player claims to hear a slur, so the media assume there was one. The media pressure scared the cowards at BYU into banning one fan indefinitely without evidence, just as it scared the Colorado Rockies into threatening to ban one fan whom the media claimed was yelling the N-word at a game — even though no one in the crowd even reacted to it. (That fan was actually yelling the name of the mascot, but establishment media didn’t care to find that out before reporting on it.)
Even the scenario that some other fan was the one yelling the slur seems unlikely, given everything we know now. We know thanks to BYU police that the fan who was banned certainly didn’t say it. But there will be no reckoning or accountability for our media, because raising a five-alarm fire over any reported incident of racism, no matter how unlikely or unproven, is all establishment media do these days.
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