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After reading this outrageous article, two times, I concluded that the accusing student has been indoctrinated by his parents about EVERYTHING that could be considered “racist.” And I wonder what we should call brownies? Also, what about the junior girl scouts - aren’t they Brownies? Will that now be changed??

God help us all.

Well, as I wrote to someone else, the Daily Caller (and also, apparently, the National Review) seem to be just speculating that the other student thought the mere use of the word “brownies” was racist.

But what each student said hasn’t been reported.

The mother of the boy who made the original comment said the students “were talking about brownies.”

Now, anything could have been said, in any context.

I remember being in first, second and third grades, and we had to write twenty-five times certain phrases, if we did something wrong. I recall myself and two other students, who were actually friends, trading some insults in class one day, and a teacher made me write about being kind because I made the twirling finger symbol for “crazy” about another student. I actually didn’t admit that to the teacher, though, but said I was just twirling my hair. Didn’t convince the teacher of that, though!

And one other student, knowing I had a German background, called me “Hitler’s grand-daughter” in class. He didn’t really mean anything by it, it was just a kid talking and saying something that seemed to have some merit to him, but he did get in trouble for it.

So I have to say, it’s entirely possible that this boy did use the word “brownie” in some racial way, perhaps just repeating something he heard from adults, or connecting the word to black students, either intentionally or not.

We just don’t know what was said. But we can say that there was no reason for the police to be called, just like they weren’t called to my elementary school classrooms (and even the principle wasn’t).