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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You could write the whole history of the racist construction of “childhood” and who is entitled to have one by reference to this thread.[/quote]

do you know the race of the officers?[/quote]

It's irrelevant. The thread is the story. [/quote]

well it is relevant. if it was black officers mistreating a black child, that changes the narrative. [/quote]

....it really doesn't.

I think most of us who read the story assumed that at least one of the cops was Black, and probably both. That doesn't mean race wasn't a factor at key points in this story.

Police officers, even Black ones, work inside a system in which Black children are adultified and where abuse of Black kids is less likely to be reported or taken seriously. The individual officer doesn't need to be racist against the child for this to have racial implications. The cop can just be abusive, and have a sense that they will get away with it because the child is Black.

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So, if its a white child, treat them however you want, including being abusive but if its a child of color, well, really only Black, you have to treat them differently and put them on a pedestal.  You aren't doing kids any good treating them differently.   There is a lot more to this story.  Kids don't typically leave school.[/quote]

Aw, bless your heart. Pedestal, yes, that's exactly what the PP is saying. Sorry your compulsion to defend white people is interfering with your reading comprehension skills. Or perhaps I'm being too generous regarding your reading comprehension skills.[/quote]

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