American here. My highschool was like 50/50 black and white. The cafeteria was almost entire self-segregated. One day my group of nerd friends decided we wanted to play card games at a round table. The round tables were right on the "border" and usually black kids sat at them.
We sat down. A bunch of scrawny white/asian/jewish nerds playing card games. Some thugass black kids came up to us, didn't say a word, and went to town. One threw a friends lunch box away, knocked another guy out of his seat, and, SHOCKINGLY to me at the time straight up looked one of my friends in the face from inches away and spat right in his eye. We were then called faggots, crackers, etc., while a few teachers desperately ran over to stop things from going further.
I can so clearly remember my friend standing there, looking like he was about to wet his pants, while this kid just looks him right in the eye and spits in his face. It was disgusting and an awful moment.
We were too pussy to do anything, and frankly if we had, we would have had the piss beaten out of us or worse (a few years later there was a massive gang fight with knives on school grounds).
Who got in trouble for this? Not the black kids. My friends and I got sent to the principals office. We got a talking to, where the principal did a lot of handwaving about how it was sensitive topic, and we should have been more understanding, and blah blah blah, and nothing happened. We were told never to sit in the "black" part of the cafeteria again, and that nothing would happen to the black kids.
That was my "redpill" moment.
Every single other kid who was at that table that day is today a Facebook BLM supporter, anti-Trump ranter, etc liberal cause of the day. Of course none of them actually hang out with any black people, but they virtue signal all day long.
You would have thought that some of them at least would think back to that moment and say "Gee, maybe something is royally fucked up with race relations today? Gee, maybe black anti-white racism is a thing? Gee, maybe our education system that supports and enables that kind of behavior has completely fucking failed our country?"
Well it at least sounds like your personal experience disproves "never". More like "rarely.".
But why were there no criminal charges? None of your parents complained? I never understood why public schools always insist on handling things themselves. They are as bad as the Catholic church. States actually had to make laws to force schools to report sexual abuse. That's insane to me.
Well that's true enough. I didn't include myself because I was kind of the token libertarian already. I was completely race oblivious at the time.
Why did nothing happen? That's a damn good question. I don't think I ever told my parents about it. My friend felt embarrassed and like we were the ones who had done something wrong.
We were young, scared, and didn't know any better.
No. Never.
American here. My highschool was like 50/50 black and white. The cafeteria was almost entire self-segregated. One day my group of nerd friends decided we wanted to play card games at a round table. The round tables were right on the "border" and usually black kids sat at them.
We sat down. A bunch of scrawny white/asian/jewish nerds playing card games. Some thugass black kids came up to us, didn't say a word, and went to town. One threw a friends lunch box away, knocked another guy out of his seat, and, SHOCKINGLY to me at the time straight up looked one of my friends in the face from inches away and spat right in his eye. We were then called faggots, crackers, etc., while a few teachers desperately ran over to stop things from going further.
I can so clearly remember my friend standing there, looking like he was about to wet his pants, while this kid just looks him right in the eye and spits in his face. It was disgusting and an awful moment.
We were too pussy to do anything, and frankly if we had, we would have had the piss beaten out of us or worse (a few years later there was a massive gang fight with knives on school grounds).
Who got in trouble for this? Not the black kids. My friends and I got sent to the principals office. We got a talking to, where the principal did a lot of handwaving about how it was sensitive topic, and we should have been more understanding, and blah blah blah, and nothing happened. We were told never to sit in the "black" part of the cafeteria again, and that nothing would happen to the black kids.
That was my "redpill" moment.
Every single other kid who was at that table that day is today a Facebook BLM supporter, anti-Trump ranter, etc liberal cause of the day. Of course none of them actually hang out with any black people, but they virtue signal all day long.
You would have thought that some of them at least would think back to that moment and say "Gee, maybe something is royally fucked up with race relations today? Gee, maybe black anti-white racism is a thing? Gee, maybe our education system that supports and enables that kind of behavior has completely fucking failed our country?"
Well it at least sounds like your personal experience disproves "never". More like "rarely.".
But why were there no criminal charges? None of your parents complained? I never understood why public schools always insist on handling things themselves. They are as bad as the Catholic church. States actually had to make laws to force schools to report sexual abuse. That's insane to me.
Well that's true enough. I didn't include myself because I was kind of the token libertarian already. I was completely race oblivious at the time.
Why did nothing happen? That's a damn good question. I don't think I ever told my parents about it. My friend felt embarrassed and like we were the ones who had done something wrong.
We were young, scared, and didn't know any better.
Seems crazy in retrospect.