Posted on 06/11/2015 12:38:58 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Teenage girls chatter in a dressing room about the new musical coming to the Black Academy of Arts and Letters theater. The mood switches when conversation turns to the viral video of a McKinney pool party where a police officer dragged down a barefoot, bikini-clad 15-year-old girl.
The majority of police officers have kids, said Camryn Jennings, a 14-year-old with a soft voice and a laser focus. “They wouldn’t want any other person to basically abuse their children and get away with it.”
Camryn’s mother is black. Her father is white. An uncle is a police officer. Race and policing come bundled in her family. Camryn worries that what she saw on the video will make other children feel like “they aren’t worth anything.”
So it goes inside the downtown Dallas academy where founder and president Curtis King slips impromptu therapy into his lessons on musicality, pitch and lyrics. In the academy’s summer program, children learn the arts, of course, and also how to carry themselves with grace, politeness and caution for life’s harsh ways.
Now, King wrestles with the McKinney conflict. He’s angry, too. But King, the Mississippi-born son of a schoolteacher, says he needs to keep children feeling safe and valued....
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Wonder if they brought up David and Nicholas Pence in NOLA?
I know I always look to 14 year olds for wisdom and discernment.
It’s not race, it is behavior
When DOESN’T conversation turn to race any more?
When it turns to homosexuality and/or transgenderism?
***what she saw on the video will make other children feel like “they aren’t worth anything.” ***
What I saw was a cop trying to control an out of hand situation. He ordered kids to SET! and many of them did, except for the mouthy ones. The video then still showed the other kids setting as they were told.
I think he even told them to SIT...:-)
Well we all know how well black children respond to instruction. How would anyone possibly fin fault with the little angels.
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