The New York Times: Black NoVa Girl Says White Private School Classmates Cut Her Dreadlocks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I suspect the police, school and any of the boys families have already screen-shot Mikea Turners Twitter feed over the last week by now.

No way anyone would hire her after her fanning this gossip non stop each day.

Bragging about this hoax scoop -- she was personally tied to -- and the asinine hashtag. Fire this nitwit, immediately.

"@MikeaTurnerTV
Here’s the story I broke first online. @wusa9 #NaturalHair"
https://twitter.com/MikeaTurnerTV/status/1177395605230051328

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Anonymous wrote:I believe her when she said they had stolen her lunch, and I can believe she had had issues with them in the past. Bullies can be hard to get away from in small schools. I have a daughter the same age and I sincerely doubt she understood the magnitude of the accusation. What 6th grader imagines that she'll be in the NYT for trying to get a few jerks at school in trouble and cover herself for a mistake.

No, no. You don't get to sit here and still sympathize with her. SHE is the bully and the 3 boys are not the victims. This made national news. The family jumped the gun going to the media right away instead of letting the school handle it and do a sit down with everyone. They wanted their 5 minutes of fame shaming the VP's wife's school. Shame on them. Expel her and be done with this.

SHE is a child.

I'm not defending the choices her family made.

So what? If the boys did do this to her, they would have been expelled even though they were children. This is a serious accusation that her family took to national news. The only outcome is taking away the financial aid and removing her from the school. Do you think it would be a positive if she stayed there?

Financial aid? Did it say in one of the news stories that she attended the school on a need based scholarship?

DP: Chances are high, given that parents were nowhere to be seen.

You are not trying to play the race card after what happened here, right?

Excuse me? Because I don't assume a black child attending a private school MUST be on financial aid, that makes ME guilty of "playing the race card?"

You mean, a kid whose parents don't seem to appear anywhere in the picture? Yes, chances are high that such kid is receiving FA, and that your continued obtuseness mean you love playing the race card.

[Anonymous]

Ahhhh and here we have Mikea Turner's motive for this running with this without skepticism -- it aligned with "natural hair" bill political action she was very vocal for in the days leading up to this scoop interview with her family friend.

"@MikeaTurnerTV
#GETUPDC: Talking the #naturalhairbill aka the #crownact that
@willjawando introduced before the
@MontgomeryCoMD. It’s the FIRST LOCAL jurisdiction to introduce legislation that would ban discrimination against natural hairstyles. ???? I hope @PGCCouncilMedia is next! @wusa9
https://twitter.com/MikeaTurnerTV/status/1176797661606875138

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ahhhh and here we have Mikea Turner's motive for this running with this without skepticism -- it aligned with "natural hair" bill political action she was very vocal for in the days leading up to this scoop interview with her family friend.

"@MikeaTurnerTV
#GETUPDC: Talking the #naturalhairbill aka the #crownact that
@willjawando introduced before the
@MontgomeryCoMD. It’s the FIRST LOCAL jurisdiction to introduce legislation that would ban discrimination against natural hairstyles. ???? I hope @PGCCouncilMedia is next! @wusa9
https://twitter.com/MikeaTurnerTV/status/1176797661606875138

Wow.

Natural journalism at its best.

[Anonymous]

I just heard the update on this story on my way home, once again the race card has been used to damage young people's lives. I do wish the race baiters would just stop.

[Anonymous]

Why

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So on Sept. 25th, Mikea Turner is tweeting about natural hair and discrimination about black hair -- then on Sept 26th her family friends call her with the biggest scoop of her career, a black tween at a private school got her ethnic hair chopped off by white boy classmates at a private school.

Begs the question, was Mikea in on this?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I believe her when she said they had stolen her lunch, and I can believe she had had issues with them in the past. Bullies can be hard to get away from in small schools. I have a daughter the same age and I sincerely doubt she understood the magnitude of the accusation. What 6th grader imagines that she'll be in the NYT for trying to get a few jerks at school in trouble and cover herself for a mistake.

Even when CNN video van came over to tape her dressed up aunt, grandmother, grandfather and her? Indeed, what are you thinking.?.

I'm thinking that she's a child and at that point was way over her head and completely caught up in what she started. Shame on her family for exploiting the situation that way and shame on CNN for putting a 12 year old on camera. I'm not saying what she did was right by any means, but she's also not a mature adult. She's just a kid.

I am not as forgiving of this child. She lied. Flat out lied. And, as a result, made national news. Instead of fessing up, she went on national TV and cried about being a victim.
Incidents like these divide our country even more. And, she needs to understand that.
I hope she is punished by her grandparents. She is old enough to be held accountable.

Yes, she is. She should get in trouble, through her school and her family. But it should be a private matter. She only made national news because of her family's actions, and those of the media. Her name and picture should never have been out there. I hope she gets to talk to a therapist.

But, but it wasn't a PRIVATE matter when she was the victim, was it? Yes, let's quickly sweep this under the rug, wouldn't want to damage her self esteem any more, right? A therapist will do her not good, she has already been indoctrinated into the world of "all white people are bad." Thanks racists!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So on Sept. 25th, Mikea Turner is tweeting about natural hair and discrimination about black hair -- then on Sept 26th her family friends call her with the biggest scoop of her career, a black tween at a private school got her ethnic hair chopped off by white boy classmates at a private school.

Begs the question, was Mikea in on this?

I don't think this should be a question

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just heard the update on this story on my way home, once again the race card has been used to damage young people's lives. I do wish the race baiters would just stop.

+1.

But the real problem is not the crazies and the haters, some are always out there.

The real problem is the media looking for crazies and haters TO GIVE THEM A MEGAPHONE and call that "news."

[Anonymous]

Fake fake fake. Thought so.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I believe her when she said they had stolen her lunch, and I can believe she had had issues with them in the past. Bullies can be hard to get away from in small schools. I have a daughter the same age and I sincerely doubt she understood the magnitude of the accusation. What 6th grader imagines that she'll be in the NYT for trying to get a few jerks at school in trouble and cover herself for a mistake.

Even when CNN video van came over to tape her dressed up aunt, grandmother, grandfather and her? Indeed, what are you thinking.?.

I'm thinking that she's a child and at that point was way over her head and completely caught up in what she started. Shame on her family for exploiting the situation that way and shame on CNN for putting a 12 year old on camera. I'm not saying what she did was right by any means, but she's also not a mature adult. She's just a kid.

I am not as forgiving of this child. She lied. Flat out lied. And, as a result, made national news. Instead of fessing up, she went on national TV and cried about being a victim.
Incidents like these divide our country even more. And, she needs to understand that.
I hope she is punished by her grandparents. She is old enough to be held accountable.

Yes, she is. She should get in trouble, through her school and her family. But it should be a private matter. She only made national news because of her family's actions, and those of the media. Her name and picture should never have been out there. I hope she gets to talk to a therapist.

But, but it wasn't a PRIVATE matter when she was the victim, was it? Yes, let's quickly sweep this under the rug, wouldn't want to damage her self esteem any more, right? A therapist will do her not good, she has already been indoctrinated into the world of "all white people are bad." Thanks racists!

Like I said, it wasn’t a private matter but it should have been, whatever her role. Her name and picture should never have been published, just like the boys names weren’t. Because they’re juveniles.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So on Sept. 25th, Mikea Turner is tweeting about natural hair and discrimination about black hair -- then on Sept 26th her family friends call her with the biggest scoop of her career, a black tween at a private school got her ethnic hair chopped off by white boy classmates at school.

Begs the question, was Mikea in on this?

I don't think this should be a question

I disagree. Way too convenient. She also disclosed her personal ties to the family during initial interview.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So on Sept. 25th, Mikea Turner is tweeting about natural hair and discrimination about black hair -- then on Sept 26th her family friends call her with the biggest scoop of her career, a black tween at a private school got her ethnic hair chopped off by white boy classmates at school.

Begs the question, was Mikea in on this?

I don't think this should be a question

I disagree. Way too convenient. She also disclosed her personal ties to the family during initial interview.

She should not have done the interview if this is the case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:So on Sept. 25th, Mikea Turner is tweeting about natural hair and discrimination about black hair -- then on Sept 26th her family friends call her with the biggest scoop of her career, a black tween at a private school got her ethnic hair chopped off by white boy classmates at school.

Begs the question, was Mikea in on this?

I don't think this should be a question

I disagree. Way too convenient. She also disclosed her personal ties to the family during initial interview.

That should be looked into. It is highly coincidental.