The crime occurred in August. Not until last week did we learn that the perpetrator, police allege, is black. Her name: Zaynab Bintabdul-Hadijakien.
Which means that the authorities didn’t want the public to know the identity of the individual charged with tossing rocks at the university’s Luther Porter Jackson Cultural Center.
“Hate,” of course, was the implied motive. And just as surely, hate — or at least racial hatred — had nothing to do with it. It was garden-variety vandalism with a garden-variety motive: anger.
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Last year, graffiti at Albion College contained these messages:
- “Die N****** Please!”
- “Albion is racist. We do exist KKK;”
- “KKK;”
- “KKK White Power.,” and
- a star of David with the Satanic 666
“Hatred and injustice have no place at Albion, and will not be tolerated,” the school warned, with threats of criminal charges and expulsion if the culprit were a student
The culprit was black.