You may be on to something here, I did some research:
The racial makeup of the town is 27.1% White, 68.4% African American, 0.2% Native American, 1.4% Asian, 0.6% from other races, and 2.4% from two or more races.
Interesting stats. If he had left the generator outside, it would probably have gone missing.
But, I sure hope somebody calls and attorney and takes the electric company to task over all these children being denied basic electricity. This was not a good plan.
I even understand that the electric company may have a whole bunch of people who are not able to pay their bills; but punishing 7 children .. Definitely not a good plan.