15 yo white student arrested on hate crime chg @ Cath school

I'm going to say something but it won't be popular and I'm not saying this WASN'T racially motivated BUT isn't it possible that the kids have it out for each other? Kids can dislike each other not because of the color or their skin but just because they don't like each other. There isn't any racial bias in that case. There also isn't anything to substantiate that this was a racially motivated other than someone saying so.

Because throwing cotton & whipping an African American student doesn’t have anything to do with race???

Really? Explain

Um. What. Are you kidding? Have you ever heard of throwing cotton and whipping someone as a random high school bullying incident? Does it not evoke slavery to you? WTAF

I thought I'd seen it all here but nope. I am actually shocked that anyone could say this isn't outrageously, obviously, cruelly racist. 

So let's say they simply didn't like each other. What did you do when you didn't like someone? What do bullies do? They pick on the one thing a kid cannot change: their skin color, their glasses, their need for physical accommodation (disabled). Here you have a white student harassing a black student with the very things that white people did to black people during slavery. How is that not racially motivated? Throwing pencils isn't racially motivated. Whipping them after throwing cotton balls? C'mon. You're not that dense are you? Or maybe you don't think there's anything wrong with that.

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Could you please clarify your argument here?

Are you saying you don’t see anything to substantiate that the cotton and whipping were racially motivated other than someone saying so?

I'm wondering if you saw the wrong kid in the video? At first I was confused because the camera was closer to another black student who was interacting with someone but it wasn't anything really.  If you look in the background, there is the actual fight being discussed.

I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt here that you didn't read the article at all and just went by that video and watched the wrong interaction like I did initially. 

Can you come back and explain please? 

ARE YOU FREAKING FOR REAL HERE?  Seriously….it was cotton being thrown at a black student...and then being hit with a belt!  How is this not racially motivated in your eyes???  I am just stunned by your reply.

This has nothing to do with two kids "having it out" with each other.  This is extreme racism towards the black student while others stood by and laughed.  

There is no way, NO WAY that was not racially motivated. Cotton? Whipping on the back? How can you possibly think that was not racially motivated? 

Well, you were right about one thing: it wasn't popular! 

Come on back and tell us you were wrong. You were - and it's okay to admit that.


There's no way this was just two kids who have it out for each other. What elevates it to a hate crime is the use of racial stereotypes.  

Are you got real?

Throwing cotton at a black child???

Tell me please—-how is that NOT racist?


Boys will be boys….

It was just a joke….

Who keeps marking this thread politics? 

Shame on them if they think  that all people are of equal worth and are entitled to equal respect should be a political topic.

Those are so true.  This wasn't even kind of a political issue, it was a racist little douchebag issue.  And for every one that gets recorded and goes viral, there are probably hundreds that no one sees, or worse, just turn a blind eye to.

I read this a day after the story of middle schoolers in North Carolina having mocking slave auctions.    How are these kinds of things still happening in 2022??  

It's real gross.