Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under TrumpThe OCR regularly resolves dozens of racial harassment cases a year and did so even during Trump’s first administration. In the last days of the Biden administration, OCR workers pushed to close out several racial harassment agreements, including one that was signed by the district the day after Trump was inaugurated. With Trump in office, the agency has shifted to resolving cases involving allegations of discrimination against white students.
This is exactly what almost half of America wanted.
A seventh grader who describes herself as Afro-Indigenous said school employees witnessed her being pushed, kicked and ridiculed for having darker skin, then having water poured over her head by a boy to “baptize” her for “the sin” of being gay, using a slur. But the school, according to records, merely documented the incidents and then removed the boy from music class for the last weeks of the school year.
Actual physical violence in racial harassment seemed like it was dying out in the ‘00s. Now: Becoming the norm in some places.