The Rowan University Black Student Union and NAACP followed through late last month with the promise to hold a town hall on racial matters, a major impetus for which was a hate crime that didn’t actually occur.
Sort of.
Early last month, a suspect scribbled “I hate [n-words]” on a black female student’s dormitory door. The suspect “self-identifies” as black.
However, police did not charge the suspect with a hate crime as they believed he was “unaware of the victim’s race.” This upset many in the Rowan community, including a local NAACP official who asked “Do we give him a pass because he’s Black?
