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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]tblue37
(68,444 posts)the cops called on them in grade school and middle school, so that they're taken out in handcuffs for minor transgressions that don't even get white kids sent to the principal's office?
Or that black kids get suspended and expelled so much more often than white kids, even for the same behaviors?
A lot of the school to prison pipeline results from the way racist teachers and administrators view black kids and respond to their behavior, behavior that does not produce similar overreactions when committed by white kids.
The same perceptual distortion that leads racist cops to treat even innocent, unarmed black people (including preteen children like Tamir Rice!) as dangerous criminals who must be immediately shot if the cop hopes to make it home alive also causes racist teachers to treat black kids far too harshly because they perceive them as irredeemable "thugs."
Anyone capable of viewing that video and thinking it showed that black people were the problem is the kind of person who would not be able to react without bias to anything one of her black students said or did.
And anyone capable of publicly making such an ugly remark about those kids in the video should never have any authority over kids of the race she so clearly despises. She is obviously not capable of treating black kids without prejudice. The fact that she has already had 16 years to do damage to vulnerable kids makes it even more important to bring to a quick end her power to victimize children for belonging to the race that she hates.