There were two diaries published last week about three white kids grabbing a black girl in their private Christian academy, holding her down, and cutting off her dreadlocks, calling them nappy and ugly.
You all can see the diaries Here and Here, assuming that they haven’t been taken down.
It was a terrible, awful story. It says that these white boys are just horrible racists who are willing to grab a classmate, assault her with force, cut off her hair, and say vile, terrible things to her about her race and her body.
The comments in the diaries were awesome:
Assaulting a Black girl isn't a crime according to the evil fucking white racist legal system. I see 3 Kavarapers in the future. Hope they sue the school into destruction. Out the evil boys and their families also.
and:
Because we are still considered inferior to whites and thus have no rights white people are obligated to respect...150+ years since Dred Scott and not much has really changed...
And:
I have doubts that they will do the right thing, however, since they are punting to “law enforcement.” The boys should certainly be suspended right now, but why wait? Why not just expel them? A pattern of gross racist sexism? Push them out. A lawyer with papers in her pocket might prod admins in the right direction.
Then figure out why the boys’ repeated harassment of this child, this beautiful little girl being called “ugly,” has not been noticed and “zero tolerated.” Do MORE to provide children a safe way to address the ugly impulse to bully.
Fuck these people.
And, from the other diary, there were calls to flood the school with complaints:
FYI…for anyone else interested in letting them know how you feel:
There were complaints about the religion of the school:
ABSOLUTELY! And I bet there won’t be ANY consequences of note for those stupid, racist, CHRISTIAN boys.
This makes me sick to my stomach. It tells me that today’s millennials are teaching their kids the same ugly racism, xenophobia, and misogyny that we are seeing all too much of these days.
And in a “Christian” school, too. When on earth is the Rapture going to take these people away?
And calls to arrest the children, send them for mandatory reeducation, and to sue the parents of the boys into oblivion:
What you said. Assault with a hate crime enhancement.
Also one hell of a civil lawsuit against the parents of the attackers.
If I was the girl’s parents I’d also be pressing to have the attackers put through racial awareness education that included tours of memorials to enslaved peoples, and the requirement to write individual essays about individual photos of lynchings. Make them look at those photos until their eyes hurt.
And make them read the declarations of seceding states in the Civil War era, that are blatantly and explicitly based on protecting slavery, and write essays about those. Etc. etc. There’s a decent chance that, at that age, they could be rehabilitated. But only if they are required to confront the history that they just played a disgusting part in.
There was only one problem. The girl made it up. The NAACP statement is below:
The Fairfax County NAACP, along with much of the nation, was outraged at the reported attack on Amari Allen at Immanuel Christian School in Springfield, Va., last week. We take every allegation of racial violence seriously and we treated this incident the same. Regrettably, in this instance, the reported assault turned out to be false, and the Allen family is working with the school to achieve a resolution. We would like to thank the Fairfax County Police for their quick action in opening an investigation into the matter, and to the school for being forthcoming and open throughout this process.
Amari is not a public figure. She is a young girl who made a mistake, and we are asking everyone, supporters and critics alike, to please respect the family’s privacy at this time. Her family has released a statement to the Washington Post apologizing to the other students she accused, and her school, and the community.
Too often in these rare instances of fabricated hate crimes, critics use a broad brush to claim racially motivated crimes are virtually non-existent. This is demonstrably wrong. Data from numerous sources, including the Anti-Defamation League, the FBI, and the Justice Department, shows bias motivated crimes are on the rise, year over year. The fact is that these type of fabrications are isolated incidents, but the public and media has a tendency to sensationalize falsifications over the thousands of real hate crimes reported every year.
myemail.constantcontact.com/… Isolated incidents. Collateral damage.
Maybe, just fucking maybe, we all could be a little slower to pull out the pitchforks and react like a mob when there is some allegation like the one made here?
And maybe, just maybe, some of the crowd that got such a rush calling for “justice” might want to express an apology?
And finally, to those who are going to claim that these boys escaped prosecution because of “white privilege” — really? Is your goal, in calling it white privilege, to demand that the white boys receive equal “justice” by facing the mob — or do you want to simply make it such that all accused people get the privilege of having their crime investigated before punishment is meted out? To change it from “white privilege” to merely “the privilege of the accused”?