Here's a recent case.
The student population at Hand Middle School is 54 percent African American. The parents of a stellar African American student, India Young, are suing the school for failing to stop their daughter from being racially bullied. While “bullying” comprises a basket of virtually all possible negative behavior, racial insults are considered the most egregious and are emphasized in virtually all school anti-bullying laws.
Are you thinking that white students, members of the “powered privileged class,” were the ones relentlessly insulting and attacking India?
Think again. It was her fellow African American students that were tormenting her. They have been accusing her of “acting white,” and calling her “white girl” and “Oreo” (black on the outside, white on the inside) because she takes school seriously and is a high achiever in an advanced class with few African American students. And the attacks have not only been verbal but have escalated to physical. India even had a couple of teeth chipped.
The lawsuit emphasizes that the harassment is race-based. But what are the limits of race-based harassment? Is it race-based harassment when people insult members of their own race for apparently acting like members of another race?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/resilience-bullying/201709/the-oreos-bullying-lawsuit
The student population at Hand Middle School is 54 percent African American. The parents of a stellar African American student, India Young, are suing the school for failing to stop their daughter from being racially bullied. While “bullying” comprises a basket of virtually all possible negative behavior, racial insults are considered the most egregious and are emphasized in virtually all school anti-bullying laws.
Are you thinking that white students, members of the “powered privileged class,” were the ones relentlessly insulting and attacking India?
Think again. It was her fellow African American students that were tormenting her. They have been accusing her of “acting white,” and calling her “white girl” and “Oreo” (black on the outside, white on the inside) because she takes school seriously and is a high achiever in an advanced class with few African American students. And the attacks have not only been verbal but have escalated to physical. India even had a couple of teeth chipped.
The lawsuit emphasizes that the harassment is race-based. But what are the limits of race-based harassment? Is it race-based harassment when people insult members of their own race for apparently acting like members of another race?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/resilience-bullying/201709/the-oreos-bullying-lawsuit
