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School Hate Crime: Racist Kid Yells “N Word” While Attacking Black Girl, Breaks Her Nose And Hospitalizes Her. Black Girl Gets Suspended

School Hate Crime: Racist Kid Yells “N Word” While Attacking Black Girl, Breaks Her Nose And Hospitalizes Her. Black Girl Gets Suspended – Kansas City Defender

In a shocking, horrifying incident at Shawnee Mission East High School, a Black student was hospitalized after being attacked by a white male student. Despite being the victim, she faces suspension in a case highlighting systemic racism and administrative negligence.

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Zero discretion policies come home to roost.
Neutrality is oppression when oppression is the norm.
- Bullies rarely get in trouble. Because if they do, their bully parents show up at the school up bully the faculty and drive them crazy for daring to discipline their little shit stain. That's why it's always the victim who gets in trouble.
  
  Also because schools like to claim that they are bully free. Actually addressing bullying problems is hard, but sweeping incidents under the rug is extremely easy.
  When my oldest son was in the third grade, a kid jumped in front of him in line (ironically going to an anti-bullying assembly). My son put his hands up to his face since the kid was so close to him. The kid then kicked my son in the side so hard that he left a shoe print on my son's side.
  The next day I had a meeting with the teacher, assistant teacher, and the principal about the incident. First, they told me that nobody saw what happened. Then, they told me that my son started it by putting his hands up to protect his face. Finally, the principal told me that my son "isn't the type of kid to be bullied."
  At that point, I knew I wouldn't get anywhere with them. They were trying to sweep the whole thing under the rug so they wouldn't need to deal with it. I left the meeting and my wife and I pulled our child from that school. We contacted the superintendent and raised a fuss until they agreed to put our son in another school. (He did a lot better there and now is thriving in college.)
  
  That or the bully isn't impacted because they don't give a shit about school to begin with. A suspension is just get out of school pass. Meanwhile the kid who cares about school is actually put behind on their schooling.
  
  Yep. Bully parents show up with their bully attorneys to bully the district in court. Zero Tolerance exists to protect the school, not the students. That way, in court their lawyers can point to it and say, "Our hands are clean! We have a Zero Tolerance policy! Per district policy, we cannot take sides!"
- Yea. I know that's their language.
  
  Zero tolerance is where the both sides argument originates.
My wife is half Jamaican and half Iranian, she went to a school in a very working class part of a very ethnically diverse city in the UK, with most of the school having a familial origin in the middle east or India.
She was routinely bullied for being black and called the N word on a daily basis. She was made to feel like a troublemaker for reporting it to teachers and eventually snapped, her kickboxing lessons helped her break a boy's nose with a kick to the face after years of abuse, and she got suspended for it while nobody ever faced any consequences for their racism.
People don't want to punish wrongdoing, they want to keep things "simple" and not have to deal with anything they feel awkward about, so they ignore the repeated "small" incidents and only acted to punish the retaliation because it's deemed disproportionate. Years of racism to the point of having no friends because people were scared of being seen to sympathise apparently isn't as damaging as an afternoon in A+E and some minor discomfort for a week or so. Fuck that school and fuck this mentality.
This story seems like a worse version and we're 20 years on. I'm sure it happens way more than we see in stories like these, they're just swept under the rug and hope nobody calls them on it. Fuck this backwards ass world.
- This is a great observation that explains so many ills with our society when the victim is punished. People collectively don't care about justice. They only care about minimizing discomfort. Retaliation is only viewed as the original "source" of trouble making more trouble. I saw this same story play out for a coworker who was bullied by her male coworkers. The "guys" didn't appreciate her around and made her life miserable, so of course she acted out. Thier boss tried to sympathize with her but ultimately didn't protect her because she was one and they were many. Their boss started to view her as a pain in the ass because she would constantly report small injustices that on their own wouldn't be considered harassment.
i remember this story from 30 years ago. here it is; no administrator wants to/is allowed to make a decision. so everyone gets the same punishment, and no actual judgments are made as everyone is at fault.
schools administrators can now be replaced with a matrix of policy, they need no longer be human. this is what happens when parents sue school districts into the ground.
- But by doing this are they not opening themselves to even worse lawsuits? A student was called a racial slur and hospitalized and they're handing her the same punishment as the aggressor.
  
  According to the article, racism is a systemic problem in this school. One of the school officials, yelled at some black kids because they were walking down the hall together and thus "were looking intimidating."
  When the administration is racist, they're willing to overlook students being racist.
  
  I always hate the blurred lines of administrative disciplinary action or criminal investigation. What is the schools role if a criminal investigation is underway.
  Also, I think the article is missing some key facts, like durations of suspensions. I think some could argue that both the boy and girl deserve some suspension, but it by no means should be equal suspension given the racial charged aggression. Is there a difference between a closed fist punch versus a shove? Who through the first punch?
  Did the article even mention the date this occurred? It just says last week, which was a holiday week. So come Tuesday not sure how long the suspensions have even been served and what the administration is deciding for next steps.
- Then it's time to fire all Shawnee Mission East’s administrators.
  
  I wonder if it would fall under the umbrella of a civil rights violation, in federal court.
  
  Or fire all the parents.
  Or just, yknow, tort reform.
- This all comes back to school board elections. How much information is typically available about school board candidates?
Lots of people showing up real fast to make excuses for white supremacists doing white supremacism.... now why does that sound so familiar?
Oh, right... I'm South African!
- You ain't wrong. Went through the comments here and goddamn some of y'all need Jesus.
  Also, Sawubona! Unjani?
  
  Same thing happens here in South Africa every time white supremacists are caught on camera doing their thing... white liberals will fall over themselves to make up justifications and excuses for their behavior. It's about as predictable as clockwork.
  Sorry, I never learned isiZulu - I know a bit of Sesotho, but it's about as good as my German (ie, crap).
y'all ever notice how "zero tolerance" only kicks in once the black girl tries to defend herself? It wasn't zero tolerance when they were shouting racial slurs at her. That was simply tolerated. It wasn't zero tolerance when the white boy beat the shit out of her. When she refused to just quietly take the abuse, however, then "we have zero tolerance for hate or violence of any kind and therefore we have no choice but to suspend both students".
Rights for whites, no slack for blacks.
Conservatives should not be permitted to hold jobs related to children.
- Should be protest held outside that school and the homes of the administration until they resign our removed and the student should be unsupended.
This is Amerikkka.
- United States of Fascism
I'm glad this story is going viral. I was appalled when I heard about it last night.
School logic.
Defense against bullies is actually terrorism I'll have you know.
Not even surprised
I don't miss KC at fucking all.
- Why would the obvious outcome need to be in the title? The problem being highlighted is punishing the victim.
  
  I completely agree, but I don't think there are any more schools in the US that won't suspend the target of the harassment as well. I talked about this in another recent thread, but a kid in my school was punched in the back of the head when he had no idea it was coming and got the same suspension length as the one who threw the punch
  
  Because it's a misrepresentation of the situation, a better title would be: "School Hate Crime: Racist Kid Yells “N Word” While Attacking Black Girl, Breaks Her Nose And Hospitalizes Her, but both get suspended"
  
  Yeah bro, that title and description are definitely not trying to race bait folks 👍
- He should be expelled. Maybe one day he'll get his punishment. But those parents of hers I bet are talking to a expensive lawyer,
- They forgot that in the title.
  Doesn't belong in the title. No victim blaming.
  Also that dude fights like a bitch.
  How does "a bitch" fight? Doesn't seem like you have much respect for women either.
  
  What you talking about?
  
  Including the bull's suspension as well in the title wouldn't be victim blaming, it's not even like victim blaming adjacent.
Having to lock this post because you guys just can't keep it civil
Hey Paul Rudd... your old school sucks.
She is not suspended for being a victim. I watched a video and while the guy pushed her first, she was clearly trying to hit him into his face first. Even if on personal level I think the guy well deserved it, I do not think school can have policy “it is ok to hit other people into face when they deserve it”.
- Nah he put his hands on her first. I think she is well within reason to throw a punch at him for that, especially given that he came at her aggressively, calling her racial slurs.
  
  I watch a lot of soccer, and to me if kind of looked like a yellow card offense, followed by an escalated red card offense, followed by a other red card offense. White kid definitely deserves a much more severe punishment and longer investigation. But I'm kind of thinking it makes sense for the girl to get a shorter suspension as well based on the video clips. I'm kind of curious what evidence the admin has access to when making the punishment. Was this video shared with them?
  
  I've been pushed aggressively before, and guess what, I didn't punch anyone or start a fight. I walked away
- White boy assaulted black girl. Black girl gets suspended.
  I don’t think schools should be teaching kids to “turn the other cheek” when getting pummeled by a bully.
  
  Unfortunately if you "fight" you get suspended. Hard stop.
  
  Did you actually read what I wrote? And the boy is suspended too.
  
  Black girl threw the first punch, she escalated right up to it.
  They’re both idiots.
  Never mind the black girl is harassing multiple people over “he said she said” bullshit with aggressive claims of racism to kick the whole thing off.
- That doesn't make him not a racist.
- I noticed this too. She should have stepped away at that moment, but instead responded with force. That being said, she's a teenager and defending herself from someone much larger. This is 100% on the male, even if she made the wrong choice in how to deescalate. We can't expect teenagers to not defend themselves, we can expect them to not be racist assholes.
Without more context ima have to side with the white people here.
- So not automatically believing the story that could easily be made up makes me a racist?
- There's plenty of context here. Truth is you don't care; with or without context, you'll obviously side with the white people.
  Congratulations on contributing absolutely nothing to the discussion....
  
  Whats the context then. Please let me know because the girl baselessly saying 'called me a slave' or the boy yelling 'Nigga' as most gen alpha kids do is not it. What is the context...
You have mass school shooting every month and you call shocking incident when two students argues? American propaganda at his finest.
This “victim” created an incident by harassing people over unverified claims of racist remarks then escalates all the way to throwing the first punch.
I know a bully when I see one, and the bully got her nose broken for her effort.
- And the part you left out - just before the 'victim created an incident', the male called her a n-word - twice - , then pushed her hard.
- Wait, he pushed her. That counts as assault. He put his hands on her first.
  
  Do you think a shove, when they had both closed the gap and were chest bumping each other, is the same as a punch?
  Legally it’s not the same though both can fall into the broad category of battery.
- I know when black kids were mean to me in school, I retaliated by calling them the N-word.
  Oh wait, no I didn't because I'm not a fucking racist.
  
  No you probably cried about it on 4chan after slinking away.

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