10. Professor at Claremont College Vandalizes Car. Holds Anti-Hate Rally to Protest
Kerri Dunn gave a barn-burner speech at Claremont College in California about racial discrimination and hatred. After her speech, she went to her car where she found it had been spray painted and vandalized with the words “kike whore” and “n***er lover.” She immediately went back to the event and reported she was a victim of a hate crime. The school shut down classes for an entire day. The president of the college Pamela Gann released a statement.
Students and others responded spontaneously and forcefully last evening. They justifiably want Wednesday to be a day to gather to respond to this event and earlier events at The Claremont Colleges. The students have organized numerous events throughout the day on Wednesday, including a sit-in on the North Quandrangle, and a 5-College rally on the CMC campus at 8:00 PM Wednesday night. In light of these events, I have also directed that CMC cancel classes today, and the other Claremont Colleges have also cancelled [sic] classes. One never lightly cancels classes, for to do so in some way suggests that we can be bullied by the perpetrators of such a heinous crime. Yet, we need every single person in this community to come together, to follow his or her conscience, and to start a process of regaining control of our community. In this way, we can hope to tell the perpetrators that they will in the end be defeated and repudiated.
The haters of hate had a big rally and just when everyone was whipped up into a racially fueled frenzy, two eyewitnesses came forward to report that Dunn had done the damage herself. (Cue leaking balloon sound effect.) Adding to her long history of criminal activity (shoplifting, driving on a fake license, theft,) she was convicted of two felony counts of attempted insurance fraud and one misdemeanor count of filing a false police report. The college then went on to “defeat and repudiate” the offender by suspending her with pay and renting her a replacement car. The president of a Scripps College wrote this missive when informed of the hoax illustrating why leftists should not be allowed in education.
Above all, we must focus on this: even if the vandalized car and slogans were a hoax, our responses last week were right and appropriate — in our community meeting March 10 in Balch Auditorium and in our strong participation in the evening rally at CMC with all The Claremont Colleges. However painful and confusing this latest development is, we cannot forget the reasons we were outraged in the first place; we cannot avoid the challenges that hatred poses to our community, to our country. We will continue to work to make our campuses welcoming, open, diverse, and productive so that all of us can freely teach and learn to the best of our abilities.
See now, I would think this would be a great time to teach your students about the consequences of breaking the law, lying and inciting hatred in order to further political ambition. (It also wouldn’t hurt to organize a bake sale to pay the taxpayers back for the entire wasted day of school, canceled classes and rally clean-up, all of which totaled around 1 million dollars.)
Next: Another professor with a lively imagination.
