NationStates Jolt Archive

http://www.register-news.com/local/local_story_255173912.html

Now, in the story the school officials say there was nothing about race or weapons involved, however, it was such a big deal that staties, sheriff and local police were all there. Not only that, but there was a teacher that wore a bullet proof vest to school today. This is all in my hometown of less than 20,000 people.

The demographics are about 80% white, 20% African American, and the wealth is very unevenly spread among the population. For the high school, the demographics are more like 60% white, and 40% black. A good percent of the people entering into the freshman year are actually below poverty level. I know when I was in in HS, all my black friends sort of left my side, to be with each other. It seems to be that way in the HS for some reason. I also know that when I go to the projects anymore, I am always harassed for being white, despite growing up around there, and knowing many of the people. There was a similar fight when I was in HS, where a white guy brought a shotgun to school after fighting a black dude over a girl. A few months later, there was a drive by at the school(luckily no one was hurt). The school has one cop on duty during the day, and that is it. It also has open campus for lunch, which makes everything worse.

My question is, what is a small town to do in such situations to keep a full out race riot from taking place?

Yeah, I'm failing to see what a bunch of fights at a school have to do with race violence. People of different races involved=/=racially motivated

Big deal = Race riots?

Why can't they just be normal riots?

Yeah, I'm failing to see what a bunch of fights at a school have to do with race violence. People of different races involved=/=racially motivated

I forgot to mention that it was started when someone was called "******".

I don't see that anywhere

There was a young lady, i believe, called ****** on Monday, which sparked this set of fights. Like I said, when you get into the high school, blacks and whites very seldom mingle positively with each other, for some odd reason.

I forgot to mention that it was started when someone was called "******".

I don't see that anywhere

you mean at the school the nerds are left alone? :eek:

There was a young lady, i believe, called ****** on Monday, which sparked this set of fights. Like I said, when you get into the high school, blacks and whites very seldom mingle positively with each other, for some odd reason.

I was having a talk with my wife last night about whether socity(concentrating mostly on our youth, here in the UK) is or is not in moral decline. She tells me that it is while I do not think so.

This story reminds me of the race riots we had here in the 80's. I remeber going to school and seeing gangs of white boys and gangs of black boys fighting each other for months. My eldest son tells me he has never experianced anything like that himself at school. Nor have we had anything similar to the Brixton riots since the 80's here in London(I don't know about the rest of the country?)

When my dad was a teenager, he was present at the Mods vs Rockers riot in Brighton, and again it strikes me that my children have never seen nor heard of violence like that.

So moral decline, or media hype?

Umm sorry if this counts as thread jacking.

I'm going to go with media hype, peep. Now with the internet, and TV and radio, way more things like this get noticed all around the world, whereas before things like this would just stay within the county.