Posted on 01/01/2010 4:57:12 AM PST by reaganaut1
Racial tension has been building at Owatonna High School this week after a fight broke out Monday between white and Somali students, prompting heightened police presence, backpack searches and widespread parental worries.
Owatonna Police Chief Shaun LaDue said between six and 15 officers have been assigned this week to the school, which usually uses one liaison officer.
Principal Don Johnson said the problems began when two white students wrote papers in recent weeks that were "inflammatory and very disrespectful." One student handed out copies of his paper to friends, while the other posted his on a class blog. Both were suspended from the school of 1,600 students -- about 100 of whom are Somali.
Johnson said that before the second student returned to school Monday, the student sent text messages over the weekend to white and Somali students that were "unapologetic and in your face." He then walked into a common area Monday where more than 20 Somali students were gathered and sat down. An altercation erupted that sent one of the white students to the hospital for observation.
"When two or three [Somali] students went over there to take things into their own hands, they had a gallery," Johnson said. "It has triggered a kind of pandemonium mainly involving parents of Caucasian students, who pictured the worse -- as if 200 students were fighting on the football field."
False text messages about the school being on lockdown after someone brought a gun "created some additional strife," the principal said. "We've operated peacefully for years and then, all of a sudden, it seems like two boys couldn't quite figure it out."
One mother said Wednesday that her ninth-grader "is scared to death to go back to school tomorrow."
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
Why are these People Here?
I was looking for more recent material as well. Can’t remember which url it was but the latest I could find was that there possibly would be charges filed against 6-8 students. 6 weeks later and that’s the most recent I could find. Justice moves slow.
There is a sort of morbid poetic justice in all this, though it would have been greatly preferable if it could have happened by other means. But Minnesota, along with a host of other 90%+ white states, have for decades sent the most far left liberals of all to Congress. Now some of their citizens are beginning to live the results of their far left politicians’ policies. Maybe some will begin to rethink the feel good nuttiness of the left they have supported for so long. But with Franken in the Senate and most other elected officials from Minnesota, that time is still probably in the future.
“Owatonna Police Chief Shawn LaDue said the problem there began when two white students wrote papers for class he described as inflammatory and disrespectful to the Somali culture. He said the papers started circulating around theschool and on the Internet.
“You’ve got Facebook, your social networks, you’ve got texting and all these other things people have got. And it’s just been really difficult to keep up with,” LaDue said. “It’s something that we’re not familiar with and up to this point, we’ve gotten along really well in this community with the diversity that does exist in our community.”
“In all, eight students face charges, ranging from fifth-degree assault to disorderly conduct.”
http://www.bartamaha.com/?p=17733
There is something more recent from December 23rd. And what in the world is “fifth degree assault”? That must be throwing spit balls or something.
NO
The problem started when the somali students were treated differently than the other students.
I don’t believe you can homeschool someone else’s child.
You beat me to it.
It’s frustrating to not know where something takes place.
I had no idea where this place was.
“Why are they here ?”
To destroy the West. Think “men of the east” working for Sauron.....
I can’t speak for other staes, but Here in Virginia it is legal.
To take it over?
Indeed
“all of a sudden”...
Gee, what changed?
Old Article Ping
Hey, it’s a global economy.
Gotta import some of that African-tribal-warfare culture stuff.
No, we didn't. The Democrats and the courts selected him. Unfortunately, we did elect Klobuchar and we're stuck with both of them.
And also copied and passed them out to other students, and advertised them with text messages, and then rehashed their 'message' again, apparently.
Sounds to me like a couple of white boys who were just begging for what they got, just for being a pair of damned fools who couldn't keep their mouths shut.
You don’t think American’s have a right to equal treatment? You think Muslin foreigners should get preferential treatment?
FYI - the parents were not happy in the school meeting either because the Somalian’s were getting preferential treatment.
It’s amazing the backflips those Scandinavians have to perform to believe crap like this. But this is what they voted for. Enjoy the diversity!
Preferential treatment or not, don’t you think these boys were damned fools to behave in the way they did? They couldn’t have begged for an ass-kicking in any more effective way than by doing what they did.
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