Day 5 Post

Yesterday in class, THERE WAS NO CLASS. snow day.

Today in class, we talked about segregation and whether or not it is still around today.  We talked about a case in a school in 2007 where a group of kids beat another child until he was unconscious. some other kids had previously hung nooses from a tree.  The ones who beat the kid were black, and the ones who hung the nooses were white.  The black boys were severely punished, the white boys were not.  That's not segregation.  Yeah, it's racism, but not segregation. also, people were getting all worked up about how the black kids were being punished more harshly than the white kids.  Apparently that's racist even though the black kids beat another child unconscious and then continued to beat him after he passed out. It was a group against an individual and they could have killed him.  That is not just a schoolyard fight like people made it out to be.  Yes, hanging nooses from a tree is terrible and those children should be punished harshly, but them not being punished as harshly as the people who nearly killed someone is not really racism.  It's not always about race, people.  The noose thing was definitely racist though.