Austin-area students hurl racial slurs at black student, refer to her as a slave
Source: Houston Chronicle
By Darla Guillen, Chron.com / Houston Chronicle
Published 7:25 am, Monday, June 5, 2017
A 12-year-old girl in Georgetown, Texas, said her fellow classmates told her she looked like an ape, called her a slave and pretended to whip her.
The girl is a student at Tippit Middle School in Georgetown ISD. According a report obtained by the Austin-American Statesman, in March a classmate followed a black student around the school tennis court saying, "you're my slave now." The girl allegedly used a piece of trash and pretended it was a whip. She's also accused of pointing at a picture of an ape on her phone and saying, "This is what you look like."
The victim also pointed out a boy who reportedly began a dispute in the cafeteria. When confronted he allegedly said, "You're not really going to take the word of a BLACK person over the word of a WHITE person, are you?"
In a separate incident in May, a boy reportedly moved from his classroom seat, away from the black student, and said he didn't "sit next to apes."
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Austin-area-students-racial-slurs-black-slave-11195999.php
Break time
(195 posts)World this bunch of assholes that we call "government" are creating we have officially gone back in time to the days of racism and idiocy ....
MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)And not the Orange Won, but that's just me.
sakabatou
(42,146 posts)I'm sure that they taught the kid how to act/think. It's disgusting!
Turbineguy
(37,312 posts)People like this must have really felt stifled during the Obama years. It must be wonderful, now they can be their true selves.
Ignorant braindead fucks.
winstars
(4,219 posts)dalton99a
(81,426 posts)Robert Ranco from Facebook 16 hours ago
Hey all- I'm the dad from the article. Thank you all so much for the kind words of love and support. We really appreciate it. A few final thoughts before this issue is put to bed. I shared our story primarily to raise awareness. If you're one of the people who was surprised this is "still happening in 2017," don't be. This stuff happens all the time. I'm just thankful my daughter wasn't physically injured. We'll get past this. She's doing well. She has two supportive parents (her mom/my ex-wife), lots of friends and family members, including her siblings, my wife (step mom) and a bunch of other awesome people on the community who have rallied around her. My daughter is ok... but there's more to it. My request to all of you is this: when you see racist or bullying behavior, SPEAK UP. Shut it down. You know it's wrong.... but if you're SILENT then you're choosing to side with the racist/with the bully. That's unacceptable. And teach your children to do the same. Share my daughter's story with your children and talk about how they'd respond if they saw this happening. Through frank discussion we can improve our community. My biggest disappointment in this ordeal is that the parents refused to meet with us to talk about what happened. This was a missed opportunity for those kids to learn and grow. It's time to move on. We will not be pursuing legal action against anyone. I don't want my daughter to have this hanging over her head for the next 12-24 months. She's ok. Thank you.
Judi Lynn
(160,501 posts)Hopefully his attitude, perspective will help this child move through this wretched experience all white children have NEVER had to face in their entire lifetimes.
Very helpful information.
hibbing
(10,095 posts)All out there in the public now, they refused to meet with this gentlemen.
Peace
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Dustlawyer
(10,494 posts)Mix of wealthy liberals and Teabaggers.
alwaysinflux
(149 posts)It's a separate town. I grew up in Austin though so I guess maybe people consider it a suburb now due to urban sprawl? Seems weird. I still remember the commercials for Georgetown on TV enticing Austinites to visit: "Visit Georgetown--just a conversation away." (Based on a conversation = approx 30 minutes)
summer_in_TX
(2,727 posts)Georgetown is demographically very different from Austin. It is in another county (Williamson), and there are two other towns that are between it and Austin (Pflugerville and Round Rock). Williamson County is very Republican and has a reputation for draconian jail sentences. While there are some liberals there (many connected to Southwestern University), they are badly outnumbered by Repugs.
geretogo
(1,281 posts)helped place him in office .
cagefreesoylentgreen
(838 posts)I barely survived the racist bullying I endured as the lone Asian American kid in white junior high school. And this was in the 1980s. From my experience, this is not Trump's America; this has always been America.
Being kids doesn't absolve them, however. They had to have learned this behavior somewhere, you think.
mountain grammy
(26,605 posts)I saw it and experienced it a couple of decades before you, and middle school was the worst.. I was the only Jewish kid. That said, the school must address it with appropriate punishment because, like you said, being kids doesn't absolve them.
bresue
(1,007 posts)This is just awful for the young girl...to be tormented at such a young age...this is going to stay with her for her entire lifetime.
I know, I had 'fat' jokes made towards me....and a child never forgets! And I thought we had improved over the last generation.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)imagine that these kids are getting away with this acting out just because this era may be encouraging their character flaws. I don't know if these kids intended to go to college, but for better and worse this is now part of their applications for admission, as it will be their applications for employment.
In this real world it's not all bad for them. Social scientists observe that continuing ideological separation geographically. These students will find their best opportunities in very conservative regions and away from big cities. Social scientists also observe that those will mostly tend to cluster in hot or very cold-winter regions, or water-challenged areas, because threatening climates encourage conservatism. Or perhaps just destruction of previously prosperous regions from global warming will transform those, such as the wheat and corn states and California's Central Valley. (Having once lived there the latter more fitting destination than most, imo, apologies nonetheless for decent people there--but feel free to kick them out. )
jpak
(41,757 posts)yup
benld74
(9,904 posts)retrowire
(10,345 posts)We've got kids raised by the internet these days. And the sense of humor all over youtube and the other corners of the web are ALL ABOUT HOW EDGY you can be with getting the LOLs.
AlexSFCA
(6,137 posts)This is new reality of trump america. I bet the parents of those kids voted trump.
nikibatts
(2,198 posts)total chaos and danger.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)sad, sad situation. The AA kids now will possibly, nay probably will grow up scarred by hate, hopefully not stunted by self hate on their journey to become valuable members of our society. I will also point to an orange madman and the band of racist fascists who now imperially reign in D.C and for the months leading up to his 'crowning' encouraged people like the parents of the kids to teach their kids to continue to be as racist as they and our governing klan are.
For the last two years they have encouraged the parents of these scarred children to teach their kids to be just as they are. This is a perfect example of how racist attitudes and racism in particular is kept alive by passing down racial hate from generation to generation. This is the outcome of THE festering wound of racist hate that has been growing for generations and now has had the scab ripped off and the putrid pus of racist hate is running out infecting those who want to be infected, and they are legion.
The kids, all, are this society's victims now unless their parents teach them not to be.....sad, sad state of affairs