Kids often say the darndest things….9 Year Old Charged With Hate Crime..He Said…Brown People
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.
“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.”
You need a bit of background on the incident in question to fully appreciate the punishment:
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.
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.”
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
See why hate crimes should not be on the books? This is the perfect example!
Michelle has a good post that is a must read…here are some words that have been banned by Army Intelligence and Security Command’s (INSCOM) Equal Opportunity (EO):
November 29, 2007 - 01:49 PM on November 29th, 2007
So what ever became of freedom of spech anyway cant you say anything without getting some whinning liberal panty waste wussietards Frankly i hope this cilds parensts sue the school officials this stupid speech code is clearly unconstiutional
December 23, 2007 - 04:55 PM on December 23rd, 2007
This so called PC correct posture that goes on in our schools is ruining the children of today. Sadly these are the future leaders of our country and it isn’t a very pretty picture. To treat a 9yr old this way is truly asinine, and I can’t fathom what his perception of PC will be in his future. May GOD be with him!!