I doubted Jussie Smollett, and it breaks my heart that I might be right by Nana Efua Mumford

I doubted Jussie Smollett, and it breaks my heart that I might be right by Nana Efua Mumford

I wanted to believe Smollett. I really did. I know that there is a deep, dark racist history in Chicago and, if proved true, this would be just one more point on the list. I wanted to believe him with every fiber of my being, most of all because the consequences if he were lying were almost too awful to contemplate.

What kind of pathology wants a horrible crime to be true? Example #1 that the racism so widely proclaimed is indeed rare. No one hoped that horrifying stories coming out of Germany from Jews were true.