Move over Jussie Smollett, the black mayor of a small South Carolina town has uncovered real hate crime. After discovering that her car had been dusted by pollen Lamar, SC Mayor Darnell Byrd McPherson decided that she must have been targeted because of her race. There is no word if it was “Trump trees” responsible for this hate crime or if it was bees in MAGA hats that perpetrated this cowardly act of racism, but authorities are investigating and will get to the bottom of this.
Newsweek reports that McPherson was the victim of a hateful attack on February 7, when she and her husband’s cars where covered with some substance that “got in all of the grooves” of her husband’s gray sedan.
“My husband went out to the car to get some things out of the garage. ‘Somebody’s painted your car!’” McPherson said.
She recalled that the couple’s neighbor, who had stopped by in his van to pick up some laundry, also chimed in.
“Darnell, there’s something on your car,” she remembered him saying. “They started rubbing it, and it was this yellow, sticky substance. So it was like, What is this?”
She said her husband and the neighbor “started scraping all over” their cars to rid what she described as a “grainy substance” akin to industrial spray foam used to patch concrete.
“It looked like little pebbles,” she added.
Setting in was the deafening fear of an attack.
You got that? This substance was yellow sticky stuff, paint, foam, concrete, and pebbles all at the same time. Here’s what it actually looked like:
“I likened it as a hate crime because No. 1, there’s a history in our town of Lamar,” said McPherson.
If you are going to give examples and start off by saying “#1” you should at least follow that up with a “#2.” Also, Darnell is dude’s name, even in the black community.
“It ignited some fear in my spirit. My God, who would do that? It was something; it was just unnerving to me,” McPherson said.
McPherson called the authorities and two Sheriff’s deputies came out who, “immediately came to the conclusion that the substance had a yellowish tint to it and that it’s a type of powder similar to pollen.”
This was also the conclusion of Darlington County Sheriff’s Office Lieutenant Robby Kilgo who said, “We found it to be pollen.”
But wait, it gets crazier because this happened prior to McPherson calling the cops:
The report went on to detail how the mayor and her husband streaked a finger over the tarnished parts surfacing the car and “realized it was not paint and that the substance could be removed with a finger; similar to pollen.”
It’s safe to assume that the substance on McPherson’s car was pollen, which brings us to this insanity:
Though the possibility was raised that the car’s mysterious coating could have been pollen and not the result of foul play, McPherson remained convinced someone was behind it.
“It’s something,” she said. “Something that’s sticky that’s stuck to my car and took two different solutions to get it off.”
Since the Country Sheriff couldn’t see the hatred behind this targeted pollen attack, McPherson had the Sheriff refer the case to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED).
“Due [to]the suspicion from her of it being a hate crime, we couldn’t say no,” said Lt. Sheriff Kilgo.
And what did SLED determine?
“We reviewed the incident report, but we did not open a formal investigation,” said a SLED spokesperson.
And why didn’t they open a formal investigation?
“Because we did not believe a crime occurred,” the spokesperson said.
Clearly this racism goes all the way to the top.
If her car getting dusted by pollen is a hate crime, what must Mayor McPherson think when a bird shits on her windshield?
Actually, now that I think about it, the other day a crow took a shit on my car in front of my house. I didn’t pay it much mind at the time, but this story makes me wonder. I’m a white man and crows are black, or birds of color as they are known. Could it be that I was the victim of a hate crime as well? Was I targeted for my whiteness by an intolerant hate bird?
