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

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Anonymous wrote:Those boys are monsters and deserve to be sent to juvenile detention.

That will never happen. Even if they were convicted, they will be sentenced to read books on the holocaust or some type of or visit the museum or study some discriminatory invent that wasn’t even against black kids similar to this girl.

Not PP, but they won’t be sentenced for anything because they’re 12 and they cut someone’s hair. The best chance for justice here is to have them expelled.

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Anonymous wrote:The video interview in the local link says she didn’t tell anyone until after 3 days — and only after her grandma, her caretaker, noticed there was something amiss with her hair. Hmm.

I bet you have been fast asleep and #MeToo blew past your bed silently, lest your sleep would get disturbed and you would wake up and know what is happening in the world around you.

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How did this thread go four pages with no mention it is where Karen Spence works? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/16/us/politics/karen-pence-school-lgbt-ban.html

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Anonymous wrote:How did this thread go four pages with no mention it is where Karen Spence works? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/16/us/politics/karen-pence-school-lgbt-ban.html

It was already mentioned.

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Anonymous wrote:One boy held her hands, one covered her mouth, one cut her locks, and they previously took lunch away from her? Called her hair nappy? How many white 12 year olds do you know who use the word nappy? I think this is the first time I am using it and I am 40. The family was really quick to alert the news. Sounds reminiscent to the N word incident on a school bus at Frost middle school 1-2 years ago.

I know, I’m so sorry to say that the first thing that occurred to me in reading about this was that white people don’t know and use the word “nappy.” I would think especially white teenage boys would have no idea what this means. It did make me fear that whatever happened was not exactly as the girl recounted.

Tell me more white person. Explain how this black girl made this up. Go on. Share your wisdom about these matters.

Please be fair as a reader. I never said she made the incident up. In fact I was a prior poster who is appalled that a 12-year-old is being put through a media grinder and had her face all over the news and had to repeatedly recount a traumatic incident. I don’t doubt that something happened here but I know from many years of working with children (and frankly adults) that what people describe as having happened is not always exactly what happened. The word “nappy” suggested to me that she was telling what they said more from her perspective.

It would also be a kindness to her if you were not part of politicizing a child with your righteousness.

You sure as hell implied she made up the part that they used the term “nappy.” Your vast survey of white teenage boys leads you to believe that the term is something they wouldn’t use. So for argument’s sake, let’s say that’s true. They didn’t use the word. Then what exactly is your point? Does it make it less upsetting that she was grabbed and held her while cutting her hair. Please explain.

I’ll take you at your word that you actually do want me to explain. My point is that none of us know exactly what happened or what was said and so this should not be a major news story prompting outrage on all sides. Your own outrage is based on your own experience of past racism — not on what actually did or did not happen to this child. I work with kids and have a lot of sympathy for kids and I find this incident very disturbing. I see a child here who is hurt and upset. But that does not mean that everything that comes out of a 12-year-old’s mouth is absolute truth. This should have been an incident for school administration and the school counselor, not the national news media.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One boy held her hands, one covered her mouth, one cut her locks, and they previously took lunch away from her? Called her hair nappy? How many white 12 year olds do you know who use the word nappy? I think this is the first time I am using it and I am 40. The family was really quick to alert the news. Sounds reminiscent to the N word incident on a school bus at Frost middle school 1-2 years ago.

They could have easily heard the word from racist parents or family members.

This is an extremely serious thing to do to another human being--as a parent, I would want all the facts verified by the police before the life-destroying, public flogging since everyone involved is a child.

[Anonymous]

Kids do mean things the parents are free to report the incident to police if they truly feel the need to do so

[Anonymous]

Eh, I'd bet half the stories in the local media about some outrage in local schools are because a parent is neighbors/friends with a reporter (or IS a reporter and passes it along).

This story isn't any different just because it didn't happen in Bethesda or NW DC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would like those investigating the incident to credit the girl’s account as they investigate, but as a member of the general public who is not I am withholding an opinion on whether this incident actually happened.

nobody was waiting for your opinion

+1 story is a bit too convenient

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eh, I'd bet half the stories in the local media about some outrage in local schools are because a parent is neighbors/friends with a reporter (or IS a reporter and passes it along).

This story isn't any different just because it didn't happen in Bethesda or NW DC.

But this was published in the awesome NYT.

I agree, though, that by now editorial standards there are similar to a local paper. Where's their Public Editor...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:One boy held her hands, one covered her mouth, one cut her locks, and they previously took lunch away from her? Called her hair nappy? How many white 12 year olds do you know who use the word nappy? I think this is the first time I am using it and I am 40. The family was really quick to alert the news. Sounds reminiscent to the N word incident on a school bus at Frost middle school 1-2 years ago.

They could have easily heard the word from racist parents or family members.

This is an extremely serious thing to do to another human being--as a parent, I would want all the facts verified by the police before the life-destroying, public flogging since everyone involved is a child.

This is a horrible incident. I have 13 year old white boy who I do think knows the word nappy. Last year, he repeated to me something his AA friends said to each other on the private school bus. My impression was that there was not bullying involved but teenage ribbing among friends. This is obviously a very different context than this incident. I share it just as a counter point to the idea that white boys would never use this word.

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IF this story is 100% true, do you think the three boys are white supremacists?

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I hope she didn't make up a story. White people don't know the word nappy. Most boys don't care about girls hairstyles.

[Anonymous]

That girls grandparents looked intimidating. The girl may have fibbed to avoid getting in trouble over the cut hair. Girls this age like to cut and style their hair. More likely she cut it herself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That girls grandparents looked intimidating. The girl may have fibbed to avoid getting in trouble over the cut hair. Girls this age like to cut and style their hair. More likely she cut it herself.

Don’t even know where to begin with this comment.