Here is a surprising twist in the developing story of the White student resource officer who lost his job after forcibly removing a Black female student from her classroom at Spring Valley High School in South Carolina earlier this week:
The local NBC affiliate WIS reported that hundreds of students participated in Friday’s walkout at 10 a.m., before a school administrator told them to return to class…
Some of the students responded by yelling ‘Free Fields.’
[School senior John Cassibry — who published video of the protest] estimated that Black students accounted for a majority of the protesters on Friday.
(Huffington Post, October 30, 2015)
It is instructive to note that, after the school administrator assured them that the school heard their voices and appreciated their efforts, the students duly returned to class. Imagine that.
But, given the intra-racial flak I’ve taken, I hope I can be forgiven for also noting that, in mounting this protest, these students vindicated my take on this incident below in “White Male Cop ‘Brutalized’ Black Female Student? I Beg To Differ,” October 28, 2015.
They made fools of the political opportunists who propagated the notion that the officer in this case is just another racist, rogue cop, and undermined media portrayals of the female student he arrested as an innocent victim.
Enough said.
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