”I am afraid that there is a particular class of race problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well because as long as the disease holds out, they have not only an easy means of making a living but also an accessible medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.” — Booker T. Washington
Will liberals never learn?
The discovery of what appeared to be a noose in a tree outside a San Francisco Bay Area Kaiser Permanente medical office last month stirred up no end of angst as Kaiser officials issued a handwringing statement about the “disgust” and “anguish” the facility’s staff had experienced.
Now, it’s probably more like “humiliation” and “embarrassment.”
As just about anyone who’s followed the news of suspected nooses lately might have guessed, the “noose” that turned up outside the office in Gilroy, California, was not the “painful and triggering symbol of the history of violence against African Americans in the United States,” Kaiser officials described.
In fact, it was a harmless piece of rope, left in the tree by a tree-trimmer who’d used it to climb the tree to cut branches and leaves that were too high to reach from the ground. Granted, there is a portion of the rope in the shape of a “noose,” but the rest doesn’t look like a rope meant for hanging. In fact, it looks a good deal like there’s climbing being done.
It’s an utterly innocuous explanation for an incident that was blown out of all proportion by executives in the Pavlovian atmosphere of the United States in the 21st century, where the boogeyman of “white supremacy” is hiding behind every bush and tree that needs trimming in the country.
……“Hospital officials say it is being seen as a hate crime, and it’s not only an open investigation with police, but it’s also been initiated through a third party for their own investigation.”
This snowflake posted a crying jag on Facebook:
……Kaiser officials had no time to wait for the “noose” to be investigated before they acknowledged “the trauma this incident caused.”
……Well, maybe they should have waited just a bit, since it apparently didn’t take long at all for investigators to look at surveillance video and realize what had happened.
On March 10, two whole days after the first report, KRON informed its no-doubt terrified viewers that the rope was “not intended to be a symbol of hate or racial animus, according to police.”
“Instead, surveillance video shows the rope was used by an individual to propel himself up the tree to cut down normally out-of-reach branches and leaves,” a police statement said, according to KTVU-TV in Oakland reported.
“The rope was inadvertently left on the tree after being used as a climbing mechanism.”
So, no one at Kaiser Permanente even considered the possibility that there was anything but a hate crime involved?
A report last week in SFGate, a Bay Area online news site, noted that, according to the U.S. Census, the Gilroy’s population of about 58,000 is overwhelmingly of white and Hispanic, with a black population of only 1.8 percent.
That really doesn’t leave many targets for a “painful and triggering symbol of the history of violence against African Americans in the United States.”
What it does present, though, is a golden opportunity for white-shoe executives to virtue-signal near and far about how they will not countenance racial bigotry — abetted by establishment media outlets that love nothing better than to present an image of the United States as a racist nation.
……Many KRON viewers had more sense than the station — and were not surprised at how the story ended:
All it takes is an innocuous object to trigger the fervid imagination of leftwingnuts who see racist boogie men everywhere.
The fake hate crimes and contrived ‘racist’ accusations are the livelihood of the ‘woke’ population of screeching rectoids.
Jussie Smollett, gay actor and attention whore, decided to hire a couple of Nigerian brothers to physically ‘attack’ him on a street in Chicago and fling some racial slurs for extra emphasis.
Then there was black NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace, who claimed that a “noose” had been placed in his garage at the Talladega Superspeedway in June 2020. It turned out to be a garage door-pull that had been there since at least 2019.
The airforce academy discovered that racial slurs were a hoax after the superintendent ranted like an idiot at 4000 cadets.
The waiter who wrote a racist note to himself hoax in Texas.
The waitress who wrote a racist note to herself hoax in Texas.
The black church burned in the name of Trump by a black parishioner hoax in Mississippi.
The black woman accosted by Trump supporters hoax at a Philadelphia gas station.
It illustrates the sick, pathetic lengths to which the Left will go to get attention and try to elicit sympathy from an ignorant population of leftist haters.