posted by the Gremlin
After watching this short video of a recent incident of racism in a high school where kids were being openly racist, it seems as though I have discovered why it is that we are all just a little bit racist…. still. Race is an open topic in many places here in America and racism must be seeping into our psyches.
In the video students were openly hating black students and there was literally nothing being done about it This is what made me think “WTF?” the most. I certainly remember there being strict rules about racism back when I was in school. But why not this school, how can these kids run wild degrading everyone that looks a little different than them into rubble? Who is to say that we don’t do the same behind our own eyes?
So why are we all racist…. still? Because parents aren’t educating their kids, or choose not to? The schools aren’t doing much to prevent this behavior either. One administrator admitted that their staff wasn’t properly trained in this area. But how much training do you need to undergo to spot such blatant racism and then to speak up?
If you were among this group of so called “administrators,” what would you do? Would you dial up your own little way to report things to the staff? Or something a more extreme?
And then I encounter this video. Another “WTF?” How about these administrators? What are they thinking. The woman won a case in court, afterall, and so her story, which sounds entirely far-fetched, must be true. How can it be? I guess the inmates really do sometimes take over and run the asylum.
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Wow, this is ridiculous. I feel like people of color think it is okay to be racist to white people because "our people were oppressed by whites for so long, they deserve it." However I think it's wrong to try to "get back" at white people using the same method we thought was unfair to us. So in regards to the video of the girls who had to leave their high school because they were taunted about their race, I think they should have taken the case to court. Also, I think whether a person is racist or not has a-lot to do with how their parents raise them. Parents should be doing their part to educate their children about how to co-exist with one another. If the school is predominantly a race then the administrators are less likely to do something about the racism problem. This would be relevant in the case with the White teacher and the students of color. The administrators are ignorant and should be fired from the school. However they may have said that it’s “their culture” because the parents probably have that mind set towards white people. These and other acts of discrimination lead to bigger things. Take a look at the shooting at Virginia Tech just a couple of years ago. If you torcher people, even if it is just through words, it will get to them, maybe not right away, but there will be a point where they snap and then something like the mass murders at Virginia Tech will occur. I went to a racially diverse high school and saw acts of racism from one person to another but not to these extremities. Most of the time people said racist things jokingly but sometimes people may take it seriously. I am not sure if this certain incident I witnessed was based on racism but I know what I saw. I was driving home one day and then I see I mass amount of people rushing across the street to where I am driving and I see that there is a fight going on. Of course people like to watch fights but I guess it is okay if it is a one on one fight. The one I saw was not a fight, it someone getting “jumped.” A Hispanic boy was on the ground, being kicked, punched, and stepped on and people just stood around watching. I was horrified by what I saw. The thing is that this boy was beat up by Black people, not White people, but BLACK people. Racism should not be allowed anywhere; we say we're far more advanced in logical thinking and technology than past civilizations but personally, I do not see it.
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