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Title: Racist bullying drives 9-year-old to suicide
Post by: Perd Hapley on December 11, 2018, 07:49:35 PM
https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/news/20181208/linden-family-mourns-9-year-old-who-took-her-own-life

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2018/12/11/heartbreaking-fourth-grader-commits-suicide-after-being-bullied-with-racist-taunts/

The Twitchy headline reads (to me) as if she was being bullied because she's black. From the description of the bullying, though, it sounds like she was bullied by black kids for "acting white."

Tragic, either way.
Title: Re: Racist bullying drives 9-year-old to suicide
Post by: BlueStarLizzard on December 11, 2018, 08:02:49 PM
https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/news/20181208/linden-family-mourns-9-year-old-who-took-her-own-life

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2018/12/11/heartbreaking-fourth-grader-commits-suicide-after-being-bullied-with-racist-taunts/

The Twitchy headline reads (to me) as if she was being bullied because she's black. From the description of the bullying, though, it sounds like she was bullied by black kids for "acting white."

Tragic, either way.

It wouldn't surprise me. Several of the black girls who stuck with the "nerdy" cliques got bullied by the other black kids for "acting white" when I was in HS.  =|

And it is sad, on many levels.  =(
Title: Re: Racist bullying drives 9-year-old to suicide
Post by: Hawkmoon on December 11, 2018, 08:49:08 PM
Impossible. I thought Obama's election as President was the start of a color-blind America.
Title: Re: Racist bullying drives 9-year-old to suicide
Post by: cordex on December 11, 2018, 11:23:55 PM
Impossible. I thought Obama's election as President was the start of a color-blind America.
You don't understand, "color-blind" is just another way to be racist.
Title: Re: Racist bullying drives 9-year-old to suicide
Post by: Hawkmoon on December 12, 2018, 12:33:42 AM
You don't understand, "color-blind" is just another way to be racist.

Yeah.

So a black child was bullied by black children because she had a white friend -- but it's whites who are racist.

Got it.
Title: Re: Racist bullying drives 9-year-old to suicide
Post by: Mannlicher on December 12, 2018, 05:07:49 PM
there is no racism more virulent and toxic that that which exists in the 'black community'.   No one has the gonads to discuss it though.
Title: Re: Racist bullying drives 9-year-old to suicide
Post by: Ron on December 14, 2018, 10:22:57 AM
Diversity is our strength.