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One incident happened in March...
...at a "Spirit Bowl" in the school gym. The junior class was supposed to wear white. One junior came in a white hood that covered his face. Witnesses said he also went around giving a stiff-armed salute mimicking how the Nazis saluted Adolf Hitler. He did all of this right in front of fellow junior, Larz Cosby, who identifies himself as "mixed race." Cosby recalled, "So everyone is like, 'Oh Larz, look at him, What are you going to do? You know, they're looking at me like I'm going to do something. And I say, 'Really,' and I take his hood off. I grab it and throw it behind me. And I said, 'Come on dude." He said his first instinct was to throw a punch. "Honestly, that's what I wanted to do. But I didn't, because I thought what would my dad do, what would he say."
Source: Racism at Alta High School? District Investigates

Sounds to me like this kid was deliberately trying to provoke a fight.

13 posted on 05/01/2011 10:22:22 AM PDT by Colofornian
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So what if he was deliberately trying to provoke a fight? Kick him out of school, but what crimminal charge is there for wearing a white hood?

If anything Larz violated this guys right by forcefully removing the hood.

Not saying I agree with what either of them did, just that it’s his right to do so. Fighting over what someone else says isn’t justified in our criminal system. In fact, it’s illegal to do so—the 1st amendment gives the guy the right to wear the hood even if it’s racist and distasteful.


33 posted on 05/01/2011 1:14:58 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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