The discovery led to an uproar on campus, and the widely shared video of a speech by the superintendent, Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria. Now officials say the scrawled slur in a dormitory was a hoax by one of its targets, a Black cadet candidate. They said in a statement Tuesday that the cadet candidate had admitted to writing the slurs and was no longer enrolled at the school. “So many young Black men are getting killed, and there is no justice for them,” Whitfield told KKTV. These racial slurs cannot be tolerated.”As news spread online that a Black student had written the slurs, some called on Silveria to directly address the episode as a hate crime hoax.

Source: thestar November 08, 2017 23:26 UTC