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http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2014/09/white_school_employees_joke_with_black_student_brings_suspension_investigation.html#incart_most-read<snip>
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Twelve-year-old Brandon Pearson, who has Down syndrome, was excited to start the school year Tuesday, his first day at a new school.
Brandon was accompanied on his first day at Huntington K-8 School in Eastwood by his mother, Brandiss Pearson, her husband and her father.
When they stopped in front of a hallway mural to snap pictures, a school sentry, or security guard, who is white, inserted himself. Brandon and his family are black.
"Wait, wait, wait, hold on,'' Brandiss Pearson recalls the sentry saying. Then the sentry turned Brandon to face the wall and lifted Brandon's hands above his head on the wall, as if to be frisked, she said.
"And he starts laughing and says, 'Now take the picture, he's in the right position,' '' Pearson recalled.
spanone
(135,844 posts)malaise
(269,054 posts)and he dared to do this in the presence of the child's parents and grandparent.
When did America begin to tolerate this shite?
Warpy
(111,277 posts)because he is reinforced in his cruelty and bigotry by a lot of right wing police blogs out there. You immerse yourself in bullshit, you start believing the world is made exclusively of bullshit and the bullshit consists of clicking everybody who isn't white into the lowest class of Americans and undoubtedly criminal, they'll discover the crime later.
I think the family will sue and raise enough of a stink that the guy will never get another cushy school job as long as he lives. He'll be a junkyard night watchman. Maybe.
Obviously, they've contacted the media. That's the most important step.
I hate stories like this. That asshole makes us all look bad.
malaise
(269,054 posts)and a racist police and security guard culture
whistler162
(11,155 posts)malaise
(269,054 posts)Thanks
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)I was about to ask if anyone had a link to a petition about that asshat, but glad to see it's already been taken care of. I'm glad at least the kid had his relatives there to protect him.
malaise
(269,054 posts)The fact that he did this in the presence of the child's parents and a grandparent. That takes some breathtaking arrogance and contempt for that African-American family. WTF is going on?
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)Thank God for Karma's kick.
Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)Did he really think they'd just laugh it off with him? Unbelievable.
malaise
(269,054 posts)in the minds of these ignorant racist assholes. It's bad enough that he was so insensitive and cruel to the child but this one really pisses me off because of his absolute indifference to the presence of three adults.
lpbk2713
(42,759 posts)Pitiful excuse for security. OMFG
Fla Dem
(23,691 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,362 posts)Why would a school not teach the security guards how to interact with children?
malaise
(269,054 posts)if they are terrorizing minority kids in these schools on their carousel to the private prisons.
NJCher
(35,687 posts)to do something like that? I can scarcely fathom the degree of ignorance and insensitivity.
This young man will carry this experience with him all his life. How can someone make up for that? Answer: It can't ever be made up.
This story sickens me. As any parent or person who is in education would know, something like this will affect this child because it is in his formative years.
Cher
malaise
(269,054 posts)What a depraved human being
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)for 'joke' having black child assume the position
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2014/09/syracuse_district_fires_white_school_guard_accused_of_joke_having_black_child_as.html#incart_related_stories
malaise
(269,054 posts)whistler162 posted that link for us.