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The New York Times: Black NoVa Girl Says White Private School Classmates Cut Her Dreadlocks
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Anonymous
I think the vast majority of these racial incidents that get reported are true, based on personal experience as a POC--but it only takes a small minority of high profile incidents like this to call all of them into question. |
Anonymous
Bump. I'm genuinely curious as to why people don't wait even a short time before responding "should be charged with assault", "of course [this type of school] has white boys who think they can do whatever they want to black girls" etc. etc. etc. Despite previous instances of this type of rush to judgment, people (and the media) salivate over these stories and pile on immediately, even when there are numerous red flags. I can only speculate that these type of stories are tapping into a separate existing anger and/or pain that clouds judgment? |
Anonymous
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Teacher here. Kids make up stuff all the time! We are constantly vetting what they say or write for the truth.
Just last week some 2nd graders writing included a man yelling and who had a gun, but posed as his mother and father. Triangulated that and later he said he was writing about the tv show that was on one day and thought that was clear. But equally frightening as this girl’s story, at my WDC private school, a black boy accused a white girl of bullying her. Her parents were called, she denied it, it took a week of total weirdness. School overlay their schedules and saw that they are no where near each other on the day and time he said it happened. He later said, at most, he didn’t know what happened. |
Anonymous
Insofar as folks here pile on like that it prubably has more to do with poseurism. Or maybe virtue signaling as they used to call it |
Anonymous
| Ok nappy and attention-seeker were total giveaways. . The story sounded completely fabricated. So tired of these fake stories that detract from real instances of racism and discrimination. Hope they get some help for the girl |
Anonymous
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The son of a family friend was accused of rape by a college co-ed. It happened over three years ago and his life was completely destroyed by the allegations; it's still not where it was prior to the event. Even once they were proven to be false and evidence was presented, the court of public opinion is harsh and doesn't forgive so easily. The public also doesn't like to admit when they were wrong. Many people in his case said things like, "well, I'm sure he did do it but..." and had sympathy for her, the woman who'd fabricated it all to save face with her boyfriend after she cheated on him. She also go zero repercussions. Those who make up these false stories need to be held accountable and punished.
Before that incident, I always believed the accusers. I try not to make any judgments now and never make any public statements on these types of incidents. |
Anonymous
| DCUM was all over this fake news. |
Anonymous
The allegation that boys said the word "nappy" was suspicious to me too. I don't think many boys today would even think of the word "nappy" -- that's like from the 1950's. |
Anonymous
I'm black and 1st-gen, and actually heard it growing up enough to be familiar with the word, beginning in about 4th grade. I'm 40. |
Anonymous
From white kids or from other black kids? I'm asking an honest question. I have a sixth grader and when this story broke I asked him and eight of his friends what nappy meant. Not one of them could tell me. |
Anonymous
Anyone who grew up with Boyz in the Hood would know it. |
Anonymous
Not 12 year white boys in extra conservative bible thumping middle school |
Anonymous
| I believe the story was a plant. The whole time planning to come out and recant. Like everyone said, there were too many holes in the story |
Anonymous
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obviously it was fake. Feel sorry for the poor kid who thinks the only way to get attention in this screwed up climate is to attain the coveted status of VICTIMHOOD. She very well could be bullied which put her emotional state in trouble though.
hopefully we get beyond this BS in a generation or two. |
Anonymous
The New Hoax Times. The ultimate hoax is that they get people to fork over a ton of good money in order to be fed not that good stuff. |