Catskill NY – Melanoid Nation Foundation https://www.melanoidnation.org Thu, 08 Oct 2015 19:45:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Black Fifth Graders In New York Accused Of Looking Like “Gangsters In The Hood” https://www.melanoidnation.org/black-fifth-graders-in-new-york-accused-of-looking-like-gangsters-in-the-hood/ https://www.melanoidnation.org/black-fifth-graders-in-new-york-accused-of-looking-like-gangsters-in-the-hood/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2015 19:42:14 +0000 http://melanoidnation.org/?p=2647 In Catskill Elementary School (New York), nine Melanoid fifth graders were told by an unidentified faculty member that them sitting together at the lunch table makes them look like a “gang in the hood.”

Here is a link to the story.

It was the faculty members suggestion that the Melanoid children mix and mingle with the white children in the school so that they don’t live up to this woman’s perceived stereotype. Celeste Jordan, a parent of one of the children affected by the accusations, mentioned that her daughter was so visibly hurt by the incident that she had to be checked out of school early that day.

According to Celeste, her daughter has also been traumatized by the incident to the point where she is having trouble sleeping, has emotional outbursts, and wonders “whether her white friends will still like her.” Guidance staff counseling has been made available to those students affected in the occurrence. Upset at the entire ordeal, Jordan says she feels that counseling alone isn’t enough to rectify the derogatory statement made by the school’s employee.

Children of other races are never ordered to go out of their way to accept Black children into their social circles, as they shouldn’t be. Why are our children expected to do so?

B. Clark

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