Liberals like to portray elections as a conflict between the politically correct and sinister racists. For evidence, they might turn to last year’s mayoral race in Colorado Springs:

In the early morning hours of April 23, 2023, a burning cross in front a campaign sign for then-candidate Yemi Mobolade was found at the intersection of Union and Fillmore. The sign had been defaced with a racial slur.

Mobolade is not merely a Person of Politically Preferred Pigmentation but a native of Nigeria.

The burning cross was good to be true from the moonbat point of view. Sure enough — it was staged:

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado (USAOC) now says the entire scene was a hoax, intended to make citizens think that there was a group of racists in Colorado Springs strongly opposed to a Black mayoral candidate.

In a news release Tuesday, the USAOC announced 35-year-old Derrick Bernard Jr., 40-year-old Ashley Blackcloud, and 38-year-old Deanna West had been indicted by a grand jury for their “maliciously conveying false information about a threat made by means of fire” and “their alleged roles in a conspiracy to spread disinformation about the threat.”

The culprits needn’t feel too bad. Mobolade won the election, and they won a place on the Hate Hoax List.

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