San Francisco has been ground zero for the wokefication of America. You might think it at least would be free of racism against anyone except Caucasians. But no; a black dog walker named Terry Williams says he has been racially menaced.

The San Francisco Standard reports that according to Williams…

…he received packages, each containing a blackface doll with a noose around its neck, on April 26 and May 5 at his Grove Street home.

Sounds doubtful. Then the story gets more serious:

Weeks later, Williams’ home was burned down; the cause of the fire remains unknown. …

On Friday, the SFPD named a suspect in the case — 67-year-old San Francisco resident April Martin Chartrand…

A warrant has been issued for her arrest.

“The San Francisco Police Department does not tolerate racism of any kind,” the department wrote in a press release Friday.

Looks like Chartrand sent the dolls and then set his house on fire to be racist. But wait: Chartrand is black too.

A LinkedIn page that appears to be Chartrand’s indicates that she has a master’s degree in psychology from San Francisco State University; an Instagram account under her name lists her as a dominatrix. A landing page on SFSU says her research has focused on, among other things, the “subcultured, racialized and marginalized” and women of color in the Bay Area fetish scene.

Unsurprisingly, Chartrand also claims to be a victim of racism:

On Facebook last month, Chartrand published a post urging people to condemn bigotry after describing how “an evil hegemonic woman” yelled a racist comment at her in front of about 30 people in the Mission District.

Getting a master’s degree in psychology from SFSU isn’t a complete waste of time. You learn how to use words like “hegemonic.”

Chartrand proclaimed that she found the incident “triggering” and screeched ungrammatically about the “undercurrents of racism and bigotry that is pervasive in all of society and also in San Francisco (USA).”

It’s not clear what makes police believe Chartrand is a suspect in the case of the racist threats or if she’s also suspected in the fire that destroyed Williams’ home.

Another suspect could be Williams himself. He says he…

…cut ties with people who thought he manufactured the hate crime and subsequent house fire.

“My circle of friends got smaller,” he said.

Why would his own friends think he was staging a hate hoax?

A motive in some hoaxes is the worshipful sympathy bestowed upon victims of racism:

Community members held a rally for Williams soon after the hate crime made headlines. In the months since the fire displaced his family, the burned-down building became a makeshift monument to solidarity: Hundreds of people left uplifting notes and art that now cover the exterior.

Whoever is behind the dolls and the arson, the motive is likely to have more to do with mental illness than racism.

On a tip from Steven S.