We’re officially residing in the Twilight Zone. In a case that’s the first of its kind, black students have sued other black students for creating a racially-hostile environment at their school.
Two South Carolina students and members of their family have reached a $150,000 settlement in a harassment case.
Lawrence “Larry” Kobrovsky, attorney for the plaintiffs said, “You have a culture where to act like you want to do well in school is considered acting white. And that is part of why we’re saying that it was racial, even though the students were all of the same race because they weren’t acting how the others thought they should be acting as members of that race.”
Dolan Media told the rest of the story:
The uncle testified that racial separation in the county generally meant white students attended private schools while black students attended public schools.
At the public schools, he said, fitting in meant not being what his family was: “churchy,” “upright” and wanting education, as another witness put it, according to a trial transcript.
“You see, it’s a crime to act white, or it’s a crime to be white,” the uncle testified.
Harassment, he testified, made him feel that “we are just dumb, we’re just not people, we’re undergraded, we’re degraded, and we’re not even supposed to be in this world.”
This is where we are during the post-racial presidency of Barack Hussein Obama. Mmmm, mmmm, mmmm. We’re no longer being judged by the color of our skin, but by the color of our personality.
Not sure this is what Martin Luther King had in mind.
Source: Dolan Media via The Big Feed
