[usadave]

And, yes, as Russell readily admits, after a bout of name-calling with a white classmate last fall, he threw the first punch in a fistfight that left him battered and his adversary with five stitches over his left eye.

...but 35 states suspended that percentage of blacks, according to The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University. The syndrome has even acquired a catchphrase: "learning while black."

It sounds like the white student that Russell punched was a victim of that syndrome known as SPITEBABSWW, or Sucker Punched In The Eye By A Black Student While White.

[summer]

Re your post #3 - Yes, I agree with your point: and, what the heck does the title of this article have to do with the actual events? "Learning" while black?

What happened is more like "black and beating up other kids while on school property." Where is the "learning" part in this???

Sounds like the NAACP prefers to say "learning" instead of the true fact of what some students do: beating the cr*p out of others.

[iconoclast]

according to The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, The syndrome has even acquired a catchphrase: "learning while black."

The good folks at Harvard came close to conducting a worthwhile study. Please try again folks with "DISRUPTING learning while black". Compulsory education beyond age 13 is a concept past it's time.