November 10, 2014
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U.S. ARMY DISCONTINUES USE OF THE OTHER “N” WORD
The United States Army has apologized “to anyone we offended“ and removed “outdated language” from Army Regulation 600-20, which had the audacity to claim it was acceptable to refer to black soldiers with the term “Negro.” The the [sic] only approved terms now are “Black or African American.”
HATE-CRIME HOAX OF THE WEEK
In Maine”the nation’s only monosyllabic state and a place where one would not expect to see a total of five nonwhite youths, much less five of them gathered together at once”it appears that a lesbian who claims she was brutally assaulted while being called anti-gay epithets by the quintet of young and presumably black males was lying through her canyon-yodeling teeth. Twenty-eight-year-old Janelle Lynn Martel is being charged with “reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon and driving to endanger” in connection with an October 25 incident with five “juveniles.” Martel’s “partner,” who bears the acutely lesbian-sounding name of Lizzy Snyder, sent a text message to Lewiston, Maine’s Sun-Journal claiming the following:
She’s a young gay woman who was followed by five young men, ripped out of the car and beaten….This story needs to be told “ bigotry is alive and well in Lewiston, and justice needs to prevail.
However, after police interviewed witnesses and reviewed surveillance footage, it appears that Martel was the physical aggressor, as well as the one who was hurling racial epithets at the relatively well-behaved youths. As is the case everywhere else in America these days, hate-crime hoaxes are alive and well in Maine.
