Imagine if someone like Tim Allen had staged being beaten by someone from Black Lives Matter and tried to say Obama words caused it and it was found out Allen lied, wasted government resources and made an ass out of himself my bet is you would have wanted Allen thrown under the jail...
Okay, I don't have to imagine it.
It already happened.
Morton Downey Jr, right wing racist radio host, faked a hate attack in an airport where he claimed two neo-Nazis drew a Swastika on his forehead. What gave it away was the Swastika was backwards because he drew it in a mirror. While he WAS turned into a national joke for it (as Smollet was), no one made a federal case out of it. It just wasn't that big of a deal.
You’re just cherry-picking a case that happened 30 years ago to try to make a bogus case for racism. I can cherry pick cases where blacks committed serious offenses and did little to no jail time as well. BTW did Tawana Brawley go to prison?