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A Middle School Student On A Trip To DC Spat On A Black Person...
Buzz Feed ^ | 10/13/19 | David Mack

Posted on 10/13/2019 9:10:02 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

A Middle School Student On A Trip To DC Spat On A Black Person At The African American History Museum

* The principal of the Connecticut middle school said she did not believe the incident was racially motivated *

A white student on a middle school trip to Washington, DC, spat on a black patron at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture on Friday, prompting his class to be ejected from the museum.

The unnamed male student at Shelton Intermediate School in Connecticut spat off a balcony and hit the person below, according to principal Dina Marks, who was accompanying the students.

"It was an act of stupidity, disinterest, & immaturity, completely inappropriate, " she tweeted Saturday, "but I believe, not racially motivated against that person."

On Friday night, Marks wrote only that the students had returned to their hotel rooms after "an unfortunate incident."

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Clouet was not sure if the incident was motivated by racism or horseplay, but added that "too often incidents are covered over by claiming it's only a joke."

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(Excerpt) Read more at buzzfeednews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chat; etiquette; hatecrime; localnews; racism; spitting
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1 posted on 10/13/2019 9:10:02 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Was this posted to just get us all mad and indignant and curse our way through a Sunday? :)

are we gonna call the place? the local congressman?

if not, to what end it is posted for?


2 posted on 10/13/2019 9:12:02 AM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Nine out of ten times this “racial” stuff never happens as reported.


3 posted on 10/13/2019 9:12:46 AM PDT by apoliticalone (Without freedom of speech we have no democracy and will lose all our freedoms.)
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To: yesthatjallen

If the races were reversed, heck if a black student punched a white person, would we even hear about ?


4 posted on 10/13/2019 9:16:17 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (This Space For Rant)
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To: yesthatjallen

Stop the presses!!!


5 posted on 10/13/2019 9:16:23 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: yesthatjallen

“spat off a balcony and hit the person below”

Bad, but it doesn’t seem that he deliberately spit at the black person, more like he just spit off the balcony, still not good, and it happened to hit a person below, who happened to be black. The kid still needs to be thought manners that you don’t go around spitting anywhere.


6 posted on 10/13/2019 9:17:18 AM PDT by Innovative
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To: yesthatjallen
Spit happens. </sarc>
 
7 posted on 10/13/2019 9:19:56 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (Everything I Needed to Know About Islam I Learned on 9/11)
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To: BenLurkin

Yeah, this is national news. No middle-school boy ever spat from a high place before.


8 posted on 10/13/2019 9:20:09 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: dp0622
Was this posted to just get us all mad and indignant and curse our way through a Sunday? :)

No, that'll happen when the football threads come up later. 8~)

9 posted on 10/13/2019 9:20:17 AM PDT by real saxophonist (Yeah, well, y'know that's just like, uh... your opinion, man.)
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For the record, this was NOT FUNNY! OK? (Yes, I laughed)


10 posted on 10/13/2019 9:20:58 AM PDT by Enterprise
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To: yesthatjallen

I grew up in Connecticut, and when I went to see “Jaws” as part of a birthday party in nearby Hamden (age 12) I was so bored I was one of the brats throwing Jujubes towards the front. I might have hit a black person. I won’t know until final judgment.


11 posted on 10/13/2019 9:22:07 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (Sutor, ne ultra crepidam--Appelles of Kos)
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To: Innovative

this is like when Michael Scott ( the Office) dropped a watermelon, and it hit Stanley’s ( a black employee) car.
He was worried that was a hate crime, too.


12 posted on 10/13/2019 9:22:41 AM PDT by ronniesgal (so I wonder what his FR handle is????)
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To: Innovative

Just a kid spitting off a balcony.

Done all the time by young, immature kids. . .I’ve done this many times, and sometimes wind currents shifted the spit.

I was never racially motivated and always tried to avoid spitting on others (didn’t want to get my butt beat by the guy I accidentally hit, or my butt beat by my dad).

EVERYTHING is racist these days.


13 posted on 10/13/2019 9:25:38 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: ronniesgal

Uh, you wrote ‘watermexxx’. Expect a summons any time now.


14 posted on 10/13/2019 9:26:24 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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bring it, lol.


15 posted on 10/13/2019 9:27:58 AM PDT by ronniesgal (so I wonder what his FR handle is????)
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To: Jeff Chandler
"If the races were reversed, heck if a black student punched a white person, would we even hear about?"

Sounds like a typical kid's prank, and that a black man just happened to be the one who was hit. Back in the day, if we had the social media that we have now, you would have heard stories like, "Nun slaps 9-year-old on wrist with ruler."
16 posted on 10/13/2019 9:32:45 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: yesthatjallen

“too often incidents are covered over by claiming it’s only a joke.”

NO, TOO OFTEN demographic issues are “covered over” by claiming it’s racist!


17 posted on 10/13/2019 9:35:54 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
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To: yesthatjallen

Middle school boy on field trip to DC, spits off balcony....
Hits Black person in crowd below

Site Soon to be memorialized as marker of more hugh series American racism


18 posted on 10/13/2019 9:42:09 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: yesthatjallen

Oh, sure. Another false flag. Did they think we’d never figure them out?


19 posted on 10/13/2019 9:44:15 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("I've read the back of The Book, and we win.")
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To: yesthatjallen

Oh good lord - the typical 7th grade school dork, who happened to be white, spat off the balcony and hit another kid, who happened to be black and everybody is losing their minds over the racial insensitivity.

And the museum had the audacity to expel the entire class?!

BS.


20 posted on 10/13/2019 9:48:02 AM PDT by Skywise
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