Tiggs, on 14 May 2012 - 04:57 PM, said:
There was one other child in my class, though, who reminded me of a different sort of pain. Her name was Coretta, and before my arrival she had been the only black person in our grade. She was plump and dark and didn’t seem to have many friends. From the first day, we avoided each other but watched from a distance, as if direct contact would only remind us more keenly of our isolation.
Finally, during recess one hot, cloudless day, we found ourselves occupying the same corner of the playground. I don’t remember what we said to each other, but I remember that suddenly she was chasing me around the jungle gym and swings. She was laughing brightly, and I teased her and dodged this way and that, until she finally caught me and we fell to the ground breathless. When I looked up, I saw a group of children, faceless before the glare of the sun, pointing down at us.
“Coretta has a boyfriend! Coretta has a boyfriend!”
The chants grew louder as a few more kids circled us.
“She’s not my g-girlfriend,” I stammered. I looked to Coretta for some assistance, but she just stood there looking down at the ground. “Coretta’s got a boyfriend! Why don’t you kiss her, mister boyfriend?”
“I’m not her boyfriend!” I shouted. I ran up to Coretta and gave her a slight shove; she staggered back and looked up at me, but still said nothing. “Leave me alone!” I shouted again. And suddenly Coretta was running, faster and faster, until she disappeared from sight. Appreciative laughs rose around me. Then the bell rang, and the teachers appeared to round us back into class.
Why, yes. A legal adult committing a premeditated assault with scissors as his friends cheer him on is the exact same thing as an elementary age child protecting himself from cooties.
Why is the media so biased?
So elementary racially based school bullying inlcuding a physical assault is OK, but high school bullying is not? I guess we've just got to weed out the slackers at a young age, right? Survival of the fittest?
And does it matter that the family says the kid wasn't gay and that they never heard of such an incident taking place? And that the primary witness remembers the incident so vividly in the WaPo interview, but nary a mention in other interviews he's done about Romney.
And what about the rest? Will we see an 11 page WaPo interview with Obama's drug dealer? Or perhaps the two Hawaiian dropouts he used to skip school, smoke weed, and assault people with? Any interviews about how someone with such a criminal background could have gained acceptance to some of the most elite universities in the world?