Posted on 02/02/2017 2:53:47 PM PST by BBell
Full title:Teens behind racist graffiti sentenced to visit Holocaust Museum, read books by black and Jewish authors
When five boys spray-painted a historic black school in Ashburn, Va., with swastikas, “WHITE POWER” and vulgar images, they were motivated more by teenage naivete than by racial hatred, a Loudoun County prosecutor concluded.
Three of the boys are minorities themselves, and one also marked the walls with “BROWN POWER.” None had previous troubles with the law.
So Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney Alex Rueda prepared an unusual sentence recommendation meant to educate them on the meaning of hate speech in the hope that they come to understand the effect their behavior had on the community.
The boys, who are all 16 or 17, have been sentenced to read books from a list that includes works by prominent black, Jewish and Afghan authors, write a research paper on hate speech, go to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and listen to an interview with a former student of the Ashburn Colored School, which they defaced. The school taught Loudoun County’s black children from 1892 until the 1950s, a period during which they were barred from attending school with white students.
The five teens pleaded guilty this week to destruction of property and unlawful entry before Judge Avelina Jacob in Loudoun County Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court.
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I bet when this incident fist happened, the media was all over this reporting it as another HATE CRIME!
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Yet as is often the case - it’s just more Fake News.
Make sure they leave their paint cans and sharp objects at home
“The boys, who are all 16 or 17, have been sentenced to read books from a list that includes works by prominent black...authors”
Now *that’s* cruel and unusual punishment.
They also have to read two works by Afghan author Khaled Hosseini.
“They also have to read two works by Afghan author Khaled Hosseini.”
Luckily for me, I am unfamiliar with him, and don’t know if he belongs in the dumpster with black authors.
Make them read Inside The Third Reich by Albert Speer if they need an education about hate.
“Make them read Inside The Third Reich by Albert Speer if they need an education about hate.”
Good call.
Are you sure that they know how to read?
Sentence them to 100 hours of listening to Maya Anjelou poems. To hell with the 8th Amendment.
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