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Quote by: Chancellor  No, there was nothing understandable about it! There is never any justification for six people to brutally assault one person! The only appropriate action, since the school was unwilling to do anything about the white supremacists' actions (assuming they had the legal authority to do so), was for these six (and/or their parents) to sue the white supremacists for their threatening actions and/or sue the school for not alleviating the threat. |
Hypothetical: you're poor and black and your school really doesn't care that some kid threatened to hang you. A civil suit costs money that you don't have. Do you strike back, or do you sit it out? Just how long can you sit there afraid they'll do something to you or one of your friends first?
I have been threatened and bullied and beaten myself in a school that didn't care. I never really hit back; I was always the one outnumbered and while if I tried to hit them it was grounds for detention, the reverse was just fun and games. My family had the option of moving to a different town; a lawsuit would have been futile due to the fact that the principal responsible for ignoring my situation had tenure and I was afraid to wear a recording device to school so that legally substantial evidence could be gathered...
Do you see why I stand by what I said?