More thoughts on my earlier post: Outrage in Mississippi — Noose, Locker Room, 2016
Another day, another racist attack. In Mississippi. At a school. In a LOCKER ROOM. Against a child. A Black child. By four White children. Or Young Adults.
Capt. Ray Boggs said all the students involved are under 17 and he believes any charges will be handled in youth court. Hmmm. (Gotta question how that would go over if 4 black students grabbed a white student and yanked a noose backward on his neck?) One has to wonder where these kids would get the idea that such “locker room” shenanigans would be laughed off? Funny how that very phrase “locker room shenanigans” seemed an adequate excuse for Donald Trump’s out-and-out admission of committing regular sexual assault on anyone he deemed “beautiful.”
So here’s what happened two weeks ago:
"White Students Allegedly Pulled Noose Around Black High School Football Player: The NAACP is demanding a federal hate crime probe." (www.huffingtonpost.com/...
"No child should be walking down the hall or in a locker room and be accosted with a noose around their neck," state NAACP President Derrick Johnson said during a news conference in Wiggins. "This is 2016, not 1916. This is America. This is a place where children should go to school and feel safe in their environment.”
We know incidents of racially motivated bullying have gone up in the post-tRump era. What’s next?
Have bragging about sexual assaults, sexual assaults themselves, and horrendous assaults of various kinds been going on in locker rooms for years? NO DOUBT. Is it OK? ABSOLUTELY NOT! Has it ever been okay? OF COURSE NOT! And no rude, entitled,billionaire - presidential nominee or not - is going to make it SOUND OKAY.
If one of us is chained, NONE OF US IS FREE!