From The Emails 113007

Teaching Hate In The Name Of Anti-Discrimination PC

Hey folks,

Happy Friday to you. Being Friday, it's time to go to the Emails. You know, I have been saying this for a pretty long time now. I just started saying it more again out of the necessity with all that is going on. If we are to have TRUE equality in this country, we have to treat everyone equally. The good, bad, and ugly. We have to PROMOTE equality, teach equality, and START seeing people for WHO they are, and not WHAT they are.

What am I talking about. I'm talking about SIX Black men jumping and beating ONE White guy, then the Six THUGS, are treated like the VICTIM. I'm talking about two Black guys BREAKING into a house at 4:30 in the morning, BEATING one young White kid to the point where he is now in an institution, unable to feed himself, and the FATHER and HOMEOWNER being threatened because he defended his home. Now, I'm talking about THIS. A NINE year old KID, being suspended by a School for a HATE CRIMES. Yup.

The person that sent me this, also included this note.

"Parents have no rights??? Who do these teachers think they are?"

Here is the article. From News 12 out of Phoenix, 9-year old suspended for 'hate crime'

Robert Anglen
The Arizona Republic
Nov. 27, 2007 03:05 PM

A Glendale elementary school principal has admitted to telling a 9-year old boy that it is OK to have racist feelings as long as you keep them to yourself.

Get this.

“As we said to (the boy) when he was in here, in your heart you may have that feeling, and that is OK if that is your personal belief,” Abraham Lincoln Traditional School Principal Virginia Voinovich said in a tape-recorded parent-teacher conference.

The boy was suspended for three days this month for allegedly committing a “hate crime” by using the expression “brown people.”

In an interview Monday, Voinovich would not address her comments, first saying she didn't remember the incident, then demanding a copy of the recording and finally insisting that she could not talk about a student's discipline.

The circumstances of the boy’s suspension itself raise troubling questions about student discipline, interrogation and oversight at Abraham Lincoln.

You bet it does.

According to school officials, the boy made a statement about “brown people” to another elementary student with whom he was having a conflict. They maintain it was his second offense using the phrase.

And the proof of this?

But the tape recording indicates this only came out after another parent was allowed to question the boy and elicited from him the statement that he “doesn't cooperate with brown people.”

Imagine that folks. A nine year old was able to be tricked into saying this by an ADULT? How could this be? A young, full of mush brain, no, he's NINE, a sponge brain, was able to be lead? Is THAT possible? {Sigh}

After that was reported to the boy's teacher, he was made to stand in front of his class and publicly confess what he'd said.

The boy maintains that he never said it; that the words were put in his mouth by the parent who questioned him. That parent happens to be the mother of the student with whom he is having a conflict—and she happens to work for Abraham Lincoln as a detention-room officer.

Who taped this?

The tape indicates that rather than just spouting off with racial invective, the boy was asked first why he didn't want to cooperate with brown people by the parent/school official.

In court, this might be called entrapment. Not to mention a conflict of interest.

Officials at the Washington Elementary School District, who are supposed to oversee Voinovich, wouldn't comment about the boy’s suspension. They said only the principal is qualified to talk about it.

Well, the boy’s mother is talking, and she is angry. She has also removed her son from the school.

As well she SHOULD be.

“I want parents to know … that principals can abuse their powers,” Sherry Neve, 35, said. “Principals need to have pro-active supervisors. I want the parents to know that the principal was influencing my son in a way I wouldn't want him to be raised.”

Neve said school officials didn’t advise her of the incident until several days after they questioned her son. When Neve objected to the suspension during the conference, Voinovich told her that she didn't have any rights; that parents give up their rights to discipline when they send a child to school, the tape shows.

What an insane statement. But something I have been warning you folks about.

“If you don't want that, you can take him out of here,” Voinovich said tersely.

And she did. GREAT!

Neve insists that her son is not a racist and that he never differentiated a person's color until the school made it in an issue.

“We were raised to be color blind,” she said. “My children were raised the same way.”

But let's assume for a minute that the boy actually made the comment. Does this make him a racist and guilty of a hate crime? Or does it make him a confused 9-year-old in need of counseling?

Instead of taking an opportunity to educate the boy and get to the root of the problem, the principal taught him another lesson altogether: It's OK to feel like a racist as long as you keep your feelings to yourself.

Kids often say the darndest things. Apparently, so do principals.

Folks, this Principal should be suspended for this as well. This is COMPLETELY insane. You want to see how this country COULD be? Look at kids playing. They do not care if their friend is darker than them. They do not care if their friend is White, Black, Asian, Jewish, Christian, Boy or Girl. They DEFINITELY do not care about rich or poor. All they know is that, that person is their friend. That is until the adults get involved.

Once again, and most likely not the last time, if we want TRUE equality in this country, then we better start taking MLK's advice to heart. Judge people based on the content of their character and NOT on the color of their skin. Reward good behavior for good, and bad, for bad. Not showing preferential treatment in either way, based solely on the color of their skin.

I'm not a big fan of Lawsuits, but in this case, I hope the Parent DOES sue. I hope she wins.
Peter.