9-year-old African American California girl gets email with racial slur, noose image from classmate

[Igel]

2. Depends on the intent.

Option 1: Everybody seems to be thinking it was to be racist and offensive under an alias. We must root out racism, and racism is in our "DNA", so that's obviously what's at play.

Option 2: Student using the victim-kid's email address to send them might have intended for a shitstorm to fall on that kid. He framed the kid and set him up for a serious take-down.

First investigate and ascertain motive. There might be options 3-28 that I'm not coming up with right now.


As for not releasing the kid's parents' names? FERPA. Equality means that good people get protected and bad people get protected.


Given the Internet, it's not always obvious where attitudes in kids come from. In/out-group behavior is innate, the forms it takes are culture-dependent, but this day and age ... The girl who wore cat ears 24/7 and adopted certain mannerisms because she considered herself "transspecies" did *not* learn that from her completely shocked parents.

I look at the white kid knee-deep in "hip-hop culture" and can't think, "His parents taught him that." Any more than the Latina who left home and dropped out of school the day she turned 18 because she found her parents so repressive, sexist, etc., etc., taught her to be a feminist and independent.

And the number of parents who've I heard say, "I ain't taught him that" after kid was caught cheating, stealing, fighting, assaulting, etc., is amazing. Perhaps some didn't. But I trust most of them, given the shock on their faces.