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[quote=Anonymous]There are a lot of folks on this thread making up facts out of whole cloth. Inventing a story where this child was "kicking the crap out of" her classmates and teachers, etc.

I'd like to invite those folks to consider that their (entirely fictional) version of events is racialized, and based on this idea of Black people - even Black children - as being somehow extra violent, and extra dangerous.

There has been extensive writing on how Black children are essentially denied childhood, because they are assumed to be dangerous from the moment they are no longer toddlers.

[i]The results of the findings were that black girls were perceived to be more mature and less innocent, which directly affects young black females with the way they’re treated in educational and criminal justice systems. This “adultification” makes adults cast the same stereotypes on kids as they do on adult black women. “It’s the stereotype of black women as being loud, aggressive, and over-sexualized,” said co-author Jamilia Blake, of Texas A&M University, to the New York Times. “You can trace [these stereotypes] all the way back to slavery.” [/i]

https://www.todaysparent.com/kids/school-age/black-girls-face-discrimination-as-young-as-five-years-old-says-new-study/
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