The Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination will determine whether black Boston Red Sox employee Thomas Sneed suffered racial discrimination. In June 1996, Sneed claims that an office desk photograph of himself and his white fiancee was defaced with a racial epithet. Then, Sneed claims that about a year later someone covered a photograph of his fiancee with that of a woman recently murdered. Now, we have few details. But based on published accounts, let's examine this.
Some jerk writes a racial epithet on a black guy's desk photo.
Someone once placed a box of feces in the campus mailbox of an unpopular law professor. A student in my college dorm woke up to find a taped picture of Adolf Hitler on his door. Sometimes, stuff happens. A friend recently saw a black guy wearing a T-shirt. We live in a population where 10 percent of the people believe that Elvis is still alive and 8 percent believe that if you send him a letter, he will get it.