[camle]

it's a black kid. excuses must be found, rationalization must be discovered, he's a victim.

had it been a white kid? he must be punished. his hatred must be suppressed. put him in jail, expell him permanently, send him to sensitivity training.

no double standard here folks, just move on.

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[AnAmericanMother]

The kid did this because liberals in their patronizing "help" of "poor minorities" are sending the message "You are worthless without OUR help." They graciously allow him to hang around the doors of Paradise, but he knows the only reason he's there is because they allow him to shuffle forward and glimpse the good life purely out of pity and the goodness of their hearts and purely because of the color of his skin - not because he's a good and hardworking individual who can make whatever he wants of himself. The program is not about giving good kids a hand up - it's all about making the liberals feel good about themselves. He knows good and well his only value is as a prop for the Boston intelligentsia's self-esteem.

People who receive the message that they're worthless are really into self-loathing.

[Bigg Red]

It is hard enough to "walk that divide between two worlds," Kelton said, without feeling that every black student must answer for the actions of one.

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What an idiot of a teacher. How do the actions of this one kid who is a jerk sully the reputations of the good black kids?

[SpyGuy]

Why would a [black] student...vent his frustration or rage or pain by assuming the persona of a white racist?

Another absurd and contrived assumption by a liberal "journalist", in order to spin this story to fit the Left's world-view.

Of course, the most logical explanation is that the black student wrote the anti-black statement in order to cast blame on white students, thus portraying the school environment as a haven for white racists. Anyone who has followed the news over the past several years recalls at least several stories where this has been done by other black students in schools, as well as by black adults in their communities. (And it's likely that there have been even more cases where the news stories have been spiked.) But I guess this journalist doesn't pay attention to history...or simply choses to ignore it.

[OpusatFR]

"It is hard enough to "walk that divide between two worlds," Kelton said, without feeling that every black student must answer for the actions of one."

Yet, Blacks can demand that every single white be condemned because of the past.

[San Jacinto]

What does it mean that the teenager who scrawled a threat on a bathroom wall to burn down Wellesley High School so "there will be no blacks in our schools" is black himself? Why would a student, bused from Dorchester for 11 years to schools in this western suburb, choose to vent his frustration or rage or pain by assuming the persona of a white racist?

I don't know. But I do know this--It's Whitey's Fault.

It is probably all this delay in paying reparations.

[JesseHousman]

When is a troubled kid just a troubled kid?

And when is he just a pain in the ass?

Self-denegraters, such as this one, possibly hate their race and know they are too lazy and, therefore, incapable of improving their station in life.

Or, he might simply want people to think that a white kid did it.

[CastleMan95]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2003/10/15/wellesley_school_links_graffiti_to_metco_teen/

The above is the story as reported in the Boston Globe today...goes along with the column by the Lib. Ms. McNamara.

[an amused spectator]

What does it mean that the teenager who scrawled a threat on a bathroom wall to burn down Wellesley High School so "there will be no blacks in our schools" is black himself? Why would a student, bused from Dorchester for 11 years to schools in this western suburb, choose to vent his frustration or rage or pain by assuming the persona of a white racist? When is a troubled kid just a troubled kid?

Maybe that the youth learned something from the Sumner-like media caning of Rush Limbaugh the previous week? :-)

[KellyAdmirer]

Maybe the kid just hates schoolwork and wants to go back to his easier school - or no school at all. Some things in life are just made more complicated than they have to be. Looking for huge implications for society here or something is a fool's errand.

[Devil_Anse]

So a black high school student wrote graffiti that said "We'll burn down the school so no more blacks can attend it"? And it seems understood that he did this to make it look like white students did it?

He's just following the role model, Al Sharpton, presidential candidate.

It never ceases to amaze me that a person who perpetrated a similar but far more involved hoax, then proceeded to ruin a man's life out of racism and revenge, then when losing a court case the man brought, refused to pay up and to this day has not paid up, is actually being interviewed on TV, taken seriously as a candidate, and actually viewed as just another political hopeful.