You Blew It, Vulcan Person

At an East Baltimore firehouse, a noose was planted along with a note

And so the local NAACP chapter, the Vulcan Blazers will need to stand by their prior statements...that there are racial issues and that whoever did this has committed a hate crime on the federal level. In fact Marvin L. "Doc" Cheatham, who is the Baltimore Vulcan chapter's president, said "It's got to go federal." The Vulcans went further to say they weren't surprised, really, that it's finally just come outward and there will be no toleration for such hate crimes.

I'm soooo all about that, Doc, oh, but wait! It wasn't so? The African American firefighter planted these items himself? Okay, that's not very nice, Mr. Firefighter. But it's still a hate crime, right? Just not not against the African American, but against the white firefighters in that firehouse in East Baltimore. Still, these things cannot be tolerated, Mr. Cheatham said so.

And here is what Mr. "Doc" Cheatham of the NAACP had to say about the incident once the firefighter confessed:

"It really saddens us to hear that evidently things have reached a stage that even an African-American does an injustice to himself and his own people as a result of a negative culture in that department,"

This is me working on my "are you for real?" look--it's coming along. Is anyone going to say something here? We have to take a stand or we are guilty right along with the people who hate so much they don't care who what when or where.