Binside TV: BONNIE SWEETEN CARJACKING HOAX RACIAL LIES ABOUT JULIA RAKOCZY ABDUCTION VIDEO

Bonnie Sweeten told a bold faced lie and made up a story when she falsely reported that she and her daughter were abducted by Black men. This is awful and so wrong.

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The alleged kidnapping of Bonnie Sweeten and her 9-year-old daughter smelled foul from the start, said Shaun Mullen in The Moderate Voice. The media treated the carjacking tale “as if it were Armageddon on wheels”—a blonde, blue-eyed suburban Pennsylvania mom and her girl were reportedly snatched by two black men in a Cadillac. Now police say she made the whole thing up—she and her daughter were found at Disney World. It’s too bad real kidnappings of black children in Philadelphia don’t get this kind of coverage.

Let's hope they enjoyed Disney World, said Maria E. Andreu in the Newark, N.J., Star-Ledger, because now Bonnie Sweeten is facing charges for calling in a false report to 911. But the rest of us should be ashamed, too, for failing to mend our ways after Susan Smith’s infamous false and racially-tinged report 15 years ago. “Our collective consciousness still holds stereotypes that make it too easy for the ‘criminal black man’ to be a short-hand we share.” [THE WEEK]