Four White High Schoolers Allegedly Put Noose on Black Student’s Neck.. SMDH...
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http://fusion.net/story/361349/naacp-noose-football-mississippi/
Representatives from the NAACP’s Mississippi offices are calling for a federal investigation into an alleged hate crime that took place between high school students earlier this month.
According to the NAACP, white students at Stone County High School, located in the town of Wiggins, MS, tossed a noose around the neck of a black classmate, and “yanked backward.” Local station WMTW reported that the assault took place on October 13. The allegedly targeted student is reportedly a football player.
According to Wiggins’ government website, the community of just under 4,400 residents (as of 2010—the most recent data available) is nearly 65% white, and just over 33% African American.
NAACP spokesperson Ayana Kinnel told me in a statement that the students responsible for the alleged act were not expelled. This would seemingly contradict the Stone County school district’s policy that being in possession of anything “considered to be dangerous and capable of causing ? harm,” or committing a “violent act on school property,” is grounds for immediate expulsion.
The NAACP claims that the boy’s family was told they could not be notified of any disciplinary action taken against the alleged perpetrators of the assault, in accordance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. However, FERPA states that schools can, in fact, disclose that information “to the victim of an alleged perpetrator of a crime of violence or a non-forcible sex offense concerning the final results of a disciplinary hearing with respect to the alleged crime.”
Now, they’re asking for federal authorities to launch a hate crime investigation into the incident.
“Allowing students to commit blatant hate crimes without severe consequences, sends a message to students that their safety and well being are not valuable enough to be protected,” the group said.
Representatives from both Stone County High School, as well as the Stone County school district, declined to comment on the incident.
This is just the latest example of nooses being used in apparently racially-motivated incidents on school grounds. In 2012, a black student in North Carolina was reportedly threatened with a noose made out of string with one classmate telling her, “Look what he made for you.” That same year, a Wisconsin teenager was suspended after placing a small noose on the desk of one of his high school’s three black students. And this year, a former teacher filed a lawsuit against the Oakland, CA school district after finding a rope tied into a noose on her desk in 2014.
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And people didnt stomp the mayo out of these crackers.. racial antagonization might as well be a punch... they should have caught the beatdown
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? expelling whoop they ass and put them in jail smh they're only brave in numbers
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Couldn't be my kid.... White boy wouldnt have had to worry about playing again anyways
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Hell, Wiggins is near my hometown. This doesn't surprise me at all. Wiggins, Saucier, Stone county & George county are the counties most of us black coast kids stayed away from. Both towns are damn near sundown towns. I remember around 2010 there was a football player who was said to have committed suicide up that way, Billey Joe Johnson. He ain't ? himself, though. He was dating a white girl who's daddy was a cop. The cops killed him and covered it up smh. That area is hotbed for racial violence.
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so he just let em do that ?
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@LUClEN Lord boros final attack on those gringos
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fortyacres wrote: »so he just let em do that ?
Thats what im wondering -
NAACP spokesperson Ayana Kinnel told me in a statement that the students responsible for the alleged act were not expelled. This would seemingly contradict the Stone County school district’s policy that being in possession of anything “considered to be dangerous and capable of causing ? harm,” or committing a “violent act on school property,” is grounds for immediate expulsion.
If these were Black kids you know they would not have caught that break.
I hope the NAACP goes for the jugular and gets these kids in front of a Black prosecutor -
me and my son would've went to war with them rednecks
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fortyacres wrote: »so he just let em do that ?
Zombie raised em, taught his soft ass son not to fight. -
fortyacres wrote: »so he just let em do that ?
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I bet one or more of those kids that did this have some "well connected" parents and thats why the school is slow to move on expelling the boys.
White folks even play politics amongst themselves and if one of them has money and political influence they can just about get away with murder.
I'm glad the Black kid's parents involved the media and NAACP that's going to force the school district's hand to do something they really don't want to do. -
Why are we as black folks....allowing this BS to happen to US??we allowed white folks over 400 years to punk us...but we will ? our own people if we step on their new Jordans
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MasterJayN100 wrote: »Why are we as black folks....allowing this BS to happen to US??we allowed white folks over 400 years to punk us...but we will ? our own people if we step on their new Jordans
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65% to 33%..
WHATS WRONG WOT THESE ? !!?
that ratio gap aint wide enough for crackas to be comfortable enough to try some ? like that!!?
thats a riot right there..
i dont understand majority of the ? in the South. smmfh -
How does allow them self to be put on that situation
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Black_Samson wrote: »BOSSExcellence wrote: »65% to 33%..
WHATS WRONG WOT THESE ? !!?
that ratio gap aint wide enough for crackas to be comfortable enough to try some ? like that!!?
thats a riot right there..
i dont understand majority of the ? in the South. smmfh
The woods seperate them.
what u mean?? -
You gotta check those attempts at trying you right then and there.
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Not all black people are of the violent sort -- even when unjustly targeted.
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If a white boy punks a black boy, y'all say, "How you let a white boy punk you like that?"
But if a white boy attending the same school as a black boy gets a better grade, y'all don't say, "How you let a white boy get better grades than you like that?"
I could give many examples like this.
It's like we presume that we are superior in some ways and accept that we are inferior in other ways. And these black kids grow up getting and accepting this message.
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Undefeatable wrote: »If a white boy punks a black boy, y'all say, "How you let a white boy punk you like that?"
But if a white boy attending the same school as a black boy gets a better grade, y'all don't say, "How you let a white boy get better grades than you like that?"
I could give many examples like this.
It's like we presume that we are superior in some ways and accept that we are inferior in other ways. And these black kids grow up getting and accepting this message.
How do you know what we "y'all" are saying?
For ? 's and giggles though. Explain how getting a ? better grade and not being motivated to react is in the same stratosphere as being physically assaulted and not reacting. -
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