Monday, June 01, 2009

White Woman: A Black Man Did IT!!!


MSNBC: ‘Black man did it’ hoax sparks outrage


Pa. mother's abduction claim latest in string of false accusations




Bonnie Sweeten, left, who claimed she and her daughter had been kidnapped but instead turned up at Walt Disney World, makes her initial court appearance Friday, May 29, 2009 at the Orange County jail in Orlando, Fla. Sweeten waived her extradition rights and will be sent back to Pennsylvania to face charges of filing a false report and identity theft


PHILADELPHIA - It's an old lie, claiming that The Black Man Did It.

But it was trotted out again last week when a white mother from suburban Philadelphia said two black men snatched her and her 9-year-old daughter from their SUV and abducted them in the trunk of a black Cadillac.

Blacks across the country were outraged after Bonnie Sweeten was found in a luxury hotel at Disney World. Authorities quickly unraveled the hoax, but not before an Amber Alert, frantic searches and national news coverage that played into images of marauding black men.

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