Philly schools agree to address anti-Asian violence at high school

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Source: CNN

Philadelphia (CNN) -- The Philadelphia School District signed a two-and-a-half year civil rights agreement with the U.S. Justice Department to address anti-Asian immigrant violence at a Philadelphia high school.

"Schools have an obligation to ensure a safe learning environment for everyone. We will continue to use all of the tools in our law enforcement arsenal to ensure that all students can go to school without fearing harassment," Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division said in a written statement.

The complaints were triggered by events on December 3, 2009, during which large numbers of Asian immigrant students from South Philadelphia High School were assaulted in and around the school throughout the day.

The attacks followed years of harassment against Asian students at South Philadelphia High School. In the days after the incident, more than 50 Asian students organized an eight-day boycott of the school in efforts to draw attention to what they felt was an inadequate response by the school staff to the ongoing harassment and violence.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/12/15/pennsylvania.schools.bias/index.html

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According to the comments after the article, the attackers were African American. But one can only guess the motivation of posting their supposed ethnicities: the bottom line is that immigrants were targeted because of their race, and the school did nothing about it. USA Today reported that the school is 70% black and 18% Asian. In November, social workers from Black Men at Penn School of Social Work spoke to black SPHS students to stop the tensions.

"Can't we all just get along?" --Rodney King

[Sonoman]

1. It's a major problem out here.

Asians just minding their own business, walking down the sidewalk, getting the shit kicked out of them by black dudes for no obvious reason.

I think it has something to do with the Mexican gangs holding most of the turf and the blacks are looking for someone to intimidate and control. They have gone so far as to complain that the Asians are 'disrespecting' them by not making eye contact.

Collision of cultures.

Sonoman

[Creative]

2. One of the more troubling statistics relates to the fact that blacks commit

a high number (18.5%) of hate crimes for their demographic (12.9%).

On the other hand, Asians constitute 4.9% of the population, but only commit 0.7% of hate crimes.

http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2009/offenders.html

Clearly, there are some bad things going on in our large cities.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

3. That imbalance has a long history

[Creative]

5. Still, that is not an excuse for tollerating racism and hate crimes.

[sulphurdunn]

4. Before I got to the third paragraph

I knew the perps were black kids. That wasn't supposed.