Schoolgirl, 6, off the hook for poignant hand-written BLM letter principal said was ‘racist’ thanks to 1960s civil rights ruling

New York Post ^ | March 14, 2026 | By Ross O'Keefe

[artichokegrower]

A California appeals court backed a child who wrote “any life” and innocently drew the thumbprints of her friends under “Black Lives Matter” in a picture at school, which she was later punished for.

A lower court previously backed the child’s school principal, Jesus Becerra, who worked at Viejo Elementary School in Mission Viejo, California.

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[artichokegrower]

The Pacific Legal Foundation, which is bringing the appeal on behalf of B.B.’s mother, provided this narrative:

“The principal confronted B.B. and explained that including the phrase “any life” in the drawing was “inappropriate” and “racist,” and he forced B.B. to apologize to her classmate. B.B. would also no longer be allowed to draw pictures in school. Worse still, the 7-year-old was not allowed to go to recess for two weeks. Instead, she had to sit and watch her friends play without her.”

It was pretty much “Hold it right there, kid, back away from the crayons.”

The 7-year-old in all of us recognizes the severity of a two-week ban on recess and an order not to draw anymore.

[artichokegrower]

My bilingual response to principal Jesus Becerra

el no tiene huevos

[stevio]

Make this false Jesus kneel before her and apologize. That and a few thousand dollars.

[cld51860]

This is the country we now live in.

[Ditto]

That and a few thousand dollars.

A few tens of thousands I would say. This so called “educator” who pulled this stunt shouldn’t be allowed within a mile of any child.

[Robert DeLong]

He should understand that you are saying:

"He has no b_lls" or "He doesn't have the guts". 😁👍

[PGR88]

The woke ideological and bureaucratic capture of public education has reached its wretched apogee

Let’s hope it crashes soon

[TheDon]

Let’s not let the offended mother off the hook for this situation.

“The black child then took the latter child took the picture home where M.C.’s mother raised concerns with the school.”

She chose to read ill intention where there was none. Injecting adult politics into a well intentioned child interaction. A good teaching moment twisted into bitterness.

[Leaning Right]

> This is the country we now live in. <

And what’s worse, the rules are always changing. What’s perfectly okay to say on a Monday might get you cancelled on a Tuesday.

But it looks like this march towards censorship is starting to slow a little, at least in the United States. It’s still full speed ahead in the UK, and elsewhere.

[mythenjoseph]

Unreal that this even became an issue. The schools staff should be prosecuted for the damage they just did to a young girl who spoke truth as only an untarnished child could. The fact it had to go through so many tiers is rock solid proof of the Godlessness being perpetuated in our judicial system. A reckoning is imminent.

[Nea Wood]

So only black lives matter, and children are required to say so.

Our world has gone totally insane.

[alternatives?]

While some black people have figured it out, God Bess them, this is why the other races despise blacks.

[albie]

Yes with no access to gofundme nonsense

[SteelPSUGOP]

I am at a point where I simply don’t care if black people are offended. The shameful thing is the loud mouth belligerent few muck it up for the vast majority.

[Beowulf9]

What kind of a sentence is this?

“The black child then took the latter child took the picture home”? What does that even mean?

Also, this kid was able to contain the light color within the lines of the ‘face’ but on the other drawings of faces she did not. I do wonder why that was? Was that anger on her part? I get her point and I do agree with her, all lives matter.

[Guardian Sebastian]

A 6 year old child understands equality better than an adult.

[SharpRightTurn]

“But it looks like this march towards censorship is starting to slow a little, at least in the United States”

I agree. I think more and more Whites are unwilling to passively accept the “only black lives matter” propaganda.

[newfreep]

Some cultures are successful.
Some cultures are failures.
Some cultures are not compatible with a civilized society.

[Jan_Sobieski]

If it wasn’t Africans, it would be some other ethnicity jumping on cop cars. Democrats and RINOs have done this to America, starting with Ted Kennedy

[larrytown]

A 6 year old child understands equality better than an adult.

Because the innocent child has not been corrupted by the notion that some evil act is acceptable for some kind of payout - be it emotional, monetary or induced obsequies.