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

[Anonymous]

For all who don’t think that this is a big deal, I wonder how you would feel if the victim was a white girl. This country has a history of perceiving young black girls as less innocent than their white counterparts. This girl is attacked and assaulted, yet she MUST be making it up? Sickening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For all who don’t think that this is a big deal, I wonder how you would feel if the victim was a white girl. This country has a history of perceiving young black girls as less innocent than their white counterparts. This girl is attacked and assaulted, yet she MUST be making it up? Sickening.

Oh please, that's not what posters are saying.

Just last week dozens of white kids were victimized by black kids.

Somehow that doesn't make the cover of the NYT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate to be this way, but i don't think there's anything extraordinary about the incident. One of my kids -- white -- was bullied like that by a few mean neighborhood boys at that age (also white). Some mean kids do what they can with what they have on hand. I don't think the grandparents should be in tears over this -- pissed, yes, but in tears on the news? And I don't see anyone trying to put it in perspective. This is not racism run amok.

She was pinned down by three boys, her mouth covered, and her hair cut while being told that she shouldn't have been born?
No, that's not extraordinary at all...

Well, it happened to my white kid. The other parents in the neighborhood all seemed to think it was normal childhood behavior (until it happened to their own kids; then they changed their tunes).

[Anonymous]

Post now reporting that girl has recanted her allegations and the family has apologized to the boys who were accused: https://twitter.com/JoeHeim/status/1178686208504930306. Sad situation all around.

[Anonymous]

Correct link: https://twitter.com/JoeHeim/status/1178686208504930306

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Correct link: https://twitter.com/JoeHeim/status/1178686208504930306

I'm the biracial PP who said on p. 2 "either something traumatic happened, or she is an incredibly skilled and coached child actress." This is unfortunate--I wonder what the real story is.

[Anonymous]

This just pissed me off! POC deal with enough. We don't need false allegations being made that will now be used to justify people questioning TRUE accounts of discrimination and assault.

If she were my child she'd be punished indefinitely for this. I'm glad the family apologized to the accused boys, but livid that this happened at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Correct link: https://twitter.com/JoeHeim/status/1178686208504930306

Let’s give a HT to non-exploitive reporters.

[Anonymous]

Wow.

The NYT has become a tabloid.

What a disgrace.

[Anonymous]

This is what happened: the girl wanted a different hairdo that would cost a lot at the salon to up keep it, grandparents said no. She cut her hair thinking it would help make them give in. But they got pissed, so she made up a story as kids do to avoid punishment. Grandparents and media seized the race baiting opportunity and it went viral. Here we are debating whether white people know the word nappy.

[Anonymous]

The national outlets were incredibly irresponsible in reporting on this story before the investigations were complete. No one benefits from that level of attention.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The national outlets were incredibly irresponsible in reporting on this story before the investigations were complete. No one benefits from that level of attention.

+1

This very thread opened with a NYT link.

I guess we can consider it now "the paper of hoaxes"

[Anonymous]

The Go Fund Me account is up to $1245.00. That should buy some counseling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Correct link: https://twitter.com/JoeHeim/status/1178686208504930306

Let’s give a HT to non-exploitive reporters.

She was clearly not accessing her memory when she was telling about what happened to her, so this isn't a surprising outcome. Sad that this story was so widely publicized before it was investigated. Sad for the school, sad for whichever classmates were wrongly accused, sad for her.

I hope she gets plenty of help. What she did was very wrong, but she's a little girl and doesn't understand the ramifications. If the story had been dealt with appropriately, she would have faced more appropriate repercussions. Now a little girl is going to deal with massive fallout. This is all so unnecessary and so unfortunate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Post now reporting that girl has recanted her allegations and the family has apologized to the boys who were accused: https://twitter.com/JoeHeim/status/1178686208504930306. Sad situation all around.

Who could possibly have anticipated this shocking and entirely unforeseeable plot twist? I, for one, am gobsmacked.