Racist bullying drives 9-year-old to suicide

[Perd Hapley]

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.

[BlueStarLizzard]

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.  

[Hawkmoon]

Impossible. I thought Obama's election as President was the start of a color-blind America.

[cordex]

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.

[Hawkmoon]

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.

[Mannlicher]

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.

[Ron]

Diversity is our strength.