Monday, December 15, 2003
Amazing (written 12-12-03)
I hope that you have heard about that school in South Carolina that was subject to the highly excessive drug raid that yielded absolutely no drugs. Police officers run into the school with guns drawn, in some cases actually making the children sit on the ground at gun point. They then kick the student’s book bags to the center of the room. Drug sniffing dogs roamed the halls. The principal, who later expressed outrage, was there the whole time barking orders at the students.
Here are some interesting statistics. The school is 80% white. When the drug raid happened 70% of the students were black. How is that? Well, the black children are bused in from integrated neighborhoods and therefore get there early, while the white students are driven or walk and get there later. So, is it coincidence that the raid was scheduled for a time where the majority of the students present would be black? You can guess what I think.
As if it wasn’t bad enough, as these black students were being searched white students were beginning to arrive at school and got to witness the events. I listened (again to NPR) as one of the black students expressed the shame he felt and the kid hadn’t even done anything.
I would love to work on this case. They already have three class action law suits. The school is swearing up and down that they weren’t profiling. The Principal sounds like the King of all Crackers. The list of rights that were violated would take up too much space. Current feelings—outrage.
I hope that you have heard about that school in South Carolina that was subject to the highly excessive drug raid that yielded absolutely no drugs. Police officers run into the school with guns drawn, in some cases actually making the children sit on the ground at gun point. They then kick the student’s book bags to the center of the room. Drug sniffing dogs roamed the halls. The principal, who later expressed outrage, was there the whole time barking orders at the students.
Here are some interesting statistics. The school is 80% white. When the drug raid happened 70% of the students were black. How is that? Well, the black children are bused in from integrated neighborhoods and therefore get there early, while the white students are driven or walk and get there later. So, is it coincidence that the raid was scheduled for a time where the majority of the students present would be black? You can guess what I think.
As if it wasn’t bad enough, as these black students were being searched white students were beginning to arrive at school and got to witness the events. I listened (again to NPR) as one of the black students expressed the shame he felt and the kid hadn’t even done anything.
I would love to work on this case. They already have three class action law suits. The school is swearing up and down that they weren’t profiling. The Principal sounds like the King of all Crackers. The list of rights that were violated would take up too much space. Current feelings—outrage.
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