This is shameful… it would be shameful in any decade, but especially now that we are, (hopefully | supposedly), past this sort of prejudice; awful.
Please read:
In a nutshell; some black students chose to sit under a tree in a school courtyard that was, traditionally, a “white-only” spot to sit. The next day, three nooses were hanging from the tree. Understandably, tensions rose… a number of incidents occurred over the next while, culminating in a white student being injured and sent to the hospital in a school fight. Though the student left the hospital well in a few hours, the black students are being charged with attempted 2nd degree murder, and could face up to 100 years (!?) in prison. One of the six has already been sentenced to 22 years for aggravated assault.
At the risk of getting onto a soapbox and just plain being redundant… what year is this again? 1940? 1960? It would have been just as inexcusable in those eras, but given the progress which has supposedly been made since then… this ought to be unheard of.
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