A Black high school football player was called a “b—h-ass” n-word during a game by white players in September with no consequence, his mom said. A Black 12-year-old boy, falsely accused last December of touching a white girl’s breast, was threatened and interrogated by a police officer at school without his parents and sentenced to a disciplinary alternative school for a month, his grandfather recounted. A Black honors student was wrongly accused by a white teacher of having a vape (it was a pencil sharpener) and sentenced to the alternative school for a month this fall, her mom said.
“They’re breaking people,” said Phyllis Gant, a longtime leader of the NAACP chapter in Lubbock, referring to local schools’ treatment of Black children. “It’s just open season on our students.”
Never been to Lubbock, but I’ve heard from folks in east texas that job listings with “whites only” have been popping up online here and there. I’ll give ya one guess on when the brain-dead started feeling emboldened enough to bring that oldie back.
