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Mister B.;8471818 said:Kai;8471068 said:my mother is a highschool teacher and i showed her that shit, she was beyond appalled. first thing she said was "that teacher needs to be fired too." if this shit happened in canada, nigga, every adult at that school would be reassigned with that teacher and principal getting fired, criminal charges for the cop, the school to be investigated by the board just to start. we don't just let cops abuse the fuck out of children in most rational developed countries. hell, the cops aren't allowed to be on school property like that. now imagine how much of a side eye you americans that are defending this shit get from us.
she is a child, point, blank, period, there is nothing to be said after that, no ifs ands or buts. america is fucking insane i swear
So is this lil' muhfucker....you want to defend him, too?
Leonard Pitts Jr.: It had nothing to do with race? Think again
It had nothing to do with race.
So said Sheriff Leon Lott, last week, in discussing a violent arrest by one of his officers, a white deputy named Ben Fields, of a black female student at Spring Valley High in Richland County, S.C. Fields, a school resource officer, was called in when the girl reportedly ignored a teacher’s instruction to stop using her cellphone and leave the classroom. He ended up overturning her desk and slinging her across the floor like a sandbag or a sack of dog food.
His actions, caught on cellphone video, have detonated social media, many observers expressing visceral fury over this treatment of a black child. But Lott, who later fired his deputy, said he doesn’t think Fields acted from racial prejudice because he has an African-American girlfriend.
It is a statement of earnest, staggering obtuseness that sheds no light on the officer’s overreaction, but reveals with stark clarity the simplistic way many of us perceive the all-American conundrum of race. Granted, it is not inconceivable a white girl could have been subjected to the same brutality in a similar situation. But it is a matter of statistical fact that it’s more likely to happen to a child of color.
Multiple studies have shown that those kids are subjected to harsher discipline in school than their white classmates. Indeed, numbers released last year by the federal government show that this begins in preschool where the “students” are little more than toddlers, yet black kids, who account for 18 percent of the population, get 42 percent of the suspensions.
Nothing to do with race?
The people who habitually say that operate under the misapprehension that racial bias requires intent or awareness and that it leaves obvious evidence of itself: a tendency toward racist comments, let’s say, or membership in the Ku Klux Klan. In that worldview, racial bias is incompatible with having a black girlfriend.
But that worldview is naive. Bias is frequently subterranean, something you carry without meaning to or knowing you do. In a country that has used every outlet of media, religion, education, politics, law and science for over two centuries to drive home that black is threatening, black is inferior, black is bad, it is entirely possible Fields could have acted from unconscious racial bias and yet had a black girlfriend. For that matter, he could have acted from unconscious racial bias and had a black face; African-American people are no more immune to the drumbeat of negativity surrounding them than is anyone else.
So “nothing to do with race” is a reflexive copout many of us embrace against all reason because to do otherwise is to face a mirror whose reflection does not flatter. Which is why the usual suspects — Steve Doocy, Mark Fuhrman, Glenn Beck and etcetera — have attempted to fix the blame for what happened here on the girl.
Let’s be very clear in response. It doesn’t matter if she was disruptive. It doesn’t matter if she was disobedient. It doesn’t matter if she was disrespectful. Those things justify discipline, but they emphatically do not justify this child being lifted and flung by a grown man as if she were an inanimate object. If she were white, that would likely go without saying.
One is reminded of all the other African Americans we have seen in just the last few years brutalized and even killed for no good reason. One is reminded of Trayvon Martin and Walter Scott and Eric Garner and Charnesia Corley and Oscar Grant and Tamir Rice and Sean Bell and Levar Jones and more names than this column has space to hold, more blood than conscience can contain. And how many times have we been offered the same simplistic assurance in response?
This had nothing to do with race, they say.
Of course not. It never does.
Ajackson17;8480337 said:We might have to do what China and Vietnam did to their coons.
SneakDZA;8474494 said:desertrain10;8474338 said:
Students Protest Firing Of Spring Valley High School Officer
Deputy Ben Fields was fired this week for violently arresting a black 16-year-old student.
2 hours ago
Daniel Marans Reporter, The Huffington Post
Richland County Sheriff's Department via ASSOCIATED PRESS
Students at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina, left their classes on Friday to protest the firing of Ben Fields, a former resource officer at the school.
Fields, until recently a sheriff's deputy in Richland County, was let go on Wednesday after a video emerged of him violently removing a 16-year-old African-American student from her chair, slamming her to the ground and arresting her. The video sparked widespread outrage and multiple government investigations as to whether the incident constituted a civil rights violation.
The local NBC affiliate WIS reported that hundreds of students participated in Friday's walkout at 10 a.m., before a school administrator told them to return to class.
John Cassibry, a 17-year-old senior, posted a video of the demonstration and a confrontation with a school administrator.
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"We've heard your voices. We appreciate you taking the time to do this," the school administrator said. "We always focus on teaching and learning. Let's head on back to class."
Some of the students responded by yelling "Free Fields."
Cassibry, who participated in the protest, told The Huffington Post that while he did not agree with Fields' conduct in the student arrest, he also did not believe the officer deserved to be fired.
"I believe it is important as a student to voice my opinion," Cassibry said. "My belief on Deputy Fields is just that -- I do believe he was too aggressive, but I do not believe it was any circumstance to lose his job, nor do I believe it was race-driven."
Several of the students seen demonstrating in Cassibry's video are black. Cassibry estimated that black students accounted for a majority of the protesters on Friday....
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5633a619e4b0631799123018?ir=Politics
Smh lol...guess they're entitled to have their own opinion
that school is a damn coon factory.
Brother_Five;8475082 said:It was not a large amount of students from reports and other students are celebrating
Ghostdenithegawd;8480440 said:Ajackson17;8480337 said:We might have to do what China and Vietnam did to their coons.
????????????????????????????????????????????? @Ajackson17
Ajackson17;8480482 said:Ghostdenithegawd;8480440 said:Ajackson17;8480337 said:We might have to do what China and Vietnam did to their coons.
????????????????????????????????????????????? @Ajackson17
Read what China did to the European supporters (who are chinese btw), they either left ship or canned. I don't approve of the second, but they need to jump ship and quit being the speakers of us as a whole. You don't speak for us and you can't get rid of history, cultural behavior, religious perspective, and the global "progress".
Ya'll should read Seshat Kemet book - Medieval upheaval - A catalogue of European evils
I ordered it and should be coming to my house soon and I listened to her interview on the Amen Ra Squad show and she used nothing, but European historians and esteemed professors who broke down their own history and showed that the same very evil things they done to themselves and done to others is still alive. You cannot support a barbarian culture without being barbaric or being a slave to a barbarian.
2stepz_ahead;8480587 said:Ajackson17;8480482 said:Ghostdenithegawd;8480440 said:Ajackson17;8480337 said:We might have to do what China and Vietnam did to their coons.
????????????????????????????????????????????? @Ajackson17
Read what China did to the European supporters (who are chinese btw), they either left ship or canned. I don't approve of the second, but they need to jump ship and quit being the speakers of us as a whole. You don't speak for us and you can't get rid of history, cultural behavior, religious perspective, and the global "progress".
Ya'll should read Seshat Kemet book - Medieval upheaval - A catalogue of European evils
I ordered it and should be coming to my house soon and I listened to her interview on the Amen Ra Squad show and she used nothing, but European historians and esteemed professors who broke down their own history and showed that the same very evil things they done to themselves and done to others is still alive. You cannot support a barbarian culture without being barbaric or being a slave to a barbarian.
i will order it an see if they have it on digital for kindle.
and where do i find this amen ra show?
Black_Samson;8480389 said:Ultimately this incident is not racial.
It is how ever indicative of a problem i have been talking about for a while.
Cops on steroids.
The worst part is how obvious it is that dude is on roids and how his leadership felt it appropriate to place him with kids.
So yeah... yall keep being distracted with in fighting and race baiting...
While they clean up the mess they made.
SMH a cop on steroids, busted raging the fuck out and a inquiry aint being done into the Precinct cause yall blinded...by race.
blackamerica;8480789 said:Black_Samson;8480389 said:Ultimately this incident is not racial.
It is how ever indicative of a problem i have been talking about for a while.
Cops on steroids.
The worst part is how obvious it is that dude is on roids and how his leadership felt it appropriate to place him with kids.
So yeah... yall keep being distracted with in fighting and race baiting...
While they clean up the mess they made.
SMH a cop on steroids, busted raging the fuck out and a inquiry aint being done into the Precinct cause yall blinded...by race.
How can you so quickly say this? The cop has a racial history accusing black ppl of being gang members. He just unnecessarily body slammed a female black student. Yet its not about race? Really? Because we can't prove it? Nigga just say "we don't know" or "we can't prove there's a racial element". Dismissing race when there's a HISTORY of racism from police in a racist state like SC smells of denial
The Lonious Monk;8480908 said:It could be a racial issue, but that might not be as big a component as people are making it seem. The school is around half black, so there is a large black population there. However, there is almost just as large a nonblack population, and this cop was known to be abusive across the board. So you can't really say race was a major factor here if he was Sergeant Slamming white, asian, and hispanic students too.
OFFICIALS: STUDENT TOSSED FROM DESK CAN RETURN TO SCHOOL
South Carolina school officials say a student flipped out of her desk and tossed across the classroom floor by a school resource officer and a second student who recorded the incident have been allowed to return to school.
In addition, spokeswoman Libby Roof of Richland School District 2 says a substitute is teaching the class at Spring Valley High School in Columbia and the administrator who called the officer into the classroom is on paid leave.
Authorities have said the 16-year-old was being disruptive in class Monday and wouldn't go to the office after she was caught using her phone in class.
Richland County Deputy Ben Fields was fired, and the U.S. Department of Justice has launched a civil rights investigation.
The two students face misdemeanor charges of disturbing schools.
Meanwhile, there's a petition on change.org calling for the resignation of the view co-host Raven-Symone. More than 130,000 signatures have been collected.
Symone sparked controversy when she partially defended the South Carolina deputy.
ABC released a statement over the weekend saying "we love Raven. She is confident, genuine and opinionated, all qualities that make her a great addition to the panel."
The Lonious Monk;8480908 said:It could be a racial issue, but that might not be as big a component as people are making it seem. The school is around half black, so there is a large black population there. However, there is almost just as large a nonblack population, and this cop was known to be abusive across the board. So you can't really say race was a major factor here if he was Sergeant Slamming white, asian, and hispanic students too.