delawareonline ¦ The News Journal, Wilmington, Del. ¦ Girl with Jena 6 shirt gets hate note
… The 15-year-old girl had sought and received permission from school administrators to wear a T-shirt depicting the so-called “Jena 6″ — a group of black students initially charged with attempted murder after a schoolyard fight with a white student in Jena, La., Whitmarsh said.The girl wore the shirt to show support Thursday as people from across the country descended on the town to demonstrate for racially equal justice.
About 9 a.m., the St. Marks student in the “Jena 6″ shirt found a note hanging from her locker, Whitmarsh said.
“There was no direct threat to the young lady,” he said, but the note contained both a racial slur and an obscenity. …
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Good grief…can we all please just get over the whole skin color thing, for crying out loud? Isn’t it sad that it’s 2007 and we’re still talking about it and it’s all over the media?
Yes it is sad, why can people not drop the color thing?? I don’t understand how this helps anyone to be so close-minded. It solves nothing.
St. Marks, like many of the other private schools in DE, was founded as a result of the reaction to desegregation in the public schools. Delaware was a defendant in one of the four cases that wound up being consolidated and appealed to the Supreme Court as Brown v. Board of Education.