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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRochester MN has a culture of racism in their schools.
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My girlfriend DeSha attended this school, and told me the story of Chase Nelson, the black face student in the middle.
After the 2016 election Chase and his group of white kids began terrorizing the minority students at the school. They would tell her immigrant friends "Trump is going to deport you". They made signs that told blacks and minority students to get out of our country and marched around school with them. They would harass any liberal or perceived liberal students constantly. DeSha is black and was personally terrorized by them, but when she went to school administrators about this problem at John Marshall High, the principal told her that there was nothing they could do, and that Chase and his friends had a right to their opinion.
One day in mid December 2016 during lunch in the school cafeteria, Chase walked up to DeSha and called her a "cotton pickin n*****". DeSha punched him in the face repeatedly, she had enough of their bullying. In the aftermath she was suspended from school for three weeks. Chase got a slap on the wrist and was treated as the " victim" By the school staff.
Chase is being led and coddled to act like what you see in his blackface pic. The school did nothing.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,373 posts)Our society is built on white supremacy, so it's in all of our institutions.
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)A patient at the hospital I work at rather defiantly and proudly told this a nurse from the Philippines. As I understand it, she gave that patient a schooling, and the hospital backed her in doing so.
Point is, these kids aren't coming up with this crap on their own, they are getting it from deplorable adults in their lives.
MagickMuffin
(15,948 posts)Well with that attitude mister you never will.
However, here's something you can do: suspend the bullies. You could make ALL the children in your school feel safe while in your custody. It's not that hard. And if you can't do anything than perhaps you should be picking vegetables or cotton!!!
You can even get the kid who so desperately wants to be a black person by smearing black paint on his face. I'm sure he could use a lesson in cotton pickin.
LakeSuperiorView
(1,533 posts)I've watched a friend slide into right wing nut territory after moving there for work. This post does not surprise me in the least.