A black family in South Carolina is suing their
daughter's school for failing to protect her from racially motivated abuse at
the hands of other students. However, both the abusers and the victim are the
same race.
The high-achieving girl is black, and she is being abused
by other black students because her success is apparently too
"white."
The parents of an academically stellar African-American
student are suing a South Carolina school district alleging school officials
did not prevent continued verbal and physical abuse of their daughter from …
other black students.
Students at Richland School District One’s Hand Middle
School “called (the girl) racial slurs like ‘Oreo,’ ‘white girl,’ ‘wannabe
white girl’ … and generally maligned her for ‘acting white,’” the lawsuit
says, according to The State.
Hand’s student body is approximately 50% black, but the
girl was just one of a few African-American students in her advanced courses.
“During those years, she also was “repeatedly pushed,
shoved and tripped in hallways and other locations around Hand Middle School …
(and) suffered several notable physical assaults,” the lawsuit
continues.
The lawsuit contends that school officials were informed
of the situation, yet did nothing. The superintendent reportedly avoided the
girl's parents when they tried to meet with him.
This is troubling for me -- but not because I find it
unusual.
I was raised in a majority-black community, and it
appears the same thing I witnessed then is still happening to black
students who do well academically.
I can't, for the life of me, reconcile the rhetoric we
hear from black activists about black students being left behind with this
complete silence about academic excellence being devalued as "white"
behavior.
She's challenging herself. She's humiliating anti-black racists by
proving any kid is capable of anything.
And she's being harassed for acting "white"?
Where the hell does such a cultural phenomenon come from?
Is this the result of decades of race-baiting about
oppression? About Leftist narratives that blacks are not able to make it
without government assistance anyway, so why bother with hard work?
How is the black community going to deal with the
disproportional poverty affecting blacks if there is widespread denigration of
academic achievement -- the one surefire way known to alleviate poverty?
We
have yet to see a government program actually work. We know hard work and
education can. We've seen it time and time again.
Please, someone, explain to me how this school administration
finds it acceptable to do nothing when they know students are attaching a
racial slur to the act of achievement.
