Posted on 11/06/2009 11:09:04 AM PST by Steelfish
'Chocolate On Your Face' Girl, 6, Branded A Racist
COLIN FERNANDEZ 06th November 2009
Confused: Michelle Gower with Sharona, whose 'playground banter was taken as a sinister remark' [Pic in URL]
The parents of a six-year-old girl are outraged after their daughter was branded a racist for telling a black girl she had chocolate on her face. They fear the incident could 'haunt' her throughout her time at school.
Sharona Gower had been eating chocolate mousse and was playing with a friend when she was chased by two 11-year-old girls. When one of the older girls, who was black, said Sharona had chocolate on her face, the youngster replied: 'Well, you've got chocolate on yours.'
The older girl wiped her face and said: 'I've got nothing on my face, actually.' The girl then complained to a teacher, who gave Sharona a telling off. But when Michelle Gower, 34, went to collect her daughter from school, she was told the incident was 'racist' and that a complaint had been logged.
Now Mrs Gower and her husband Nick, 45, believe the incident at St Paul's School, in Rusthall, near Tunbridge Wells, Kent, was not properly investigated and has left their daughter 'distressed and confused'. Mrs Gower said: 'The teacher told me that the girl had complained that Sharona was racist. 'The teacher said she had to record this and it had been logged as required by law.
'The teacher said they have a zero-tolerance policy for racism and bullying, which my husband and I totally agree with. 'She also said she did not know whether the other girl had chocolate on her face or not, her words were she may have done, but she did not know.
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Permanent Record.
They’ve finally made the threats real.
Welcome to The One’s “post-racial America.”
a once proud nation...reduced to lunacy...Churchill must be turning in his grave...
Hard to believe these people once told hitler to screw...
Actually, this is the UK. Which seems even more creepily PC than the US.
Dumb bass obama will invite the two little girls in for a beer with Nancy Pelosi.
What are you branded for pointing out spinach between the teeth?
Get her up against the wall!
Chocolate City was racist too; did it go on the Mayor’s permanent record?
Oh come ON. This world is getting so sick it’s not funny.
Political correctness IS killing us. It killed a lot of us yesterday. Guess what? Little innocent children notice that some kids have skin the color of chocolate. Is this racist, or is this just maybe.... TRUE?
Who gives a flying WHOOP what color people’s skin is??? Chocolate is yummy. Chocolate-colored skin is beautiful. Get [verb in present participle form] OVER it.
An anti-dentite?
Two cultures cannot exist in a single nation. Eventually, one will dominate the other and drive it out, or extinguish it. The only question is when.
But that said...
So they've charged the two 11 year olds who chased the 6 year old with bullying, right?
Right?
Why are 11 years grown girls bullying a 6 year old? That would be my question and also bullying a little 6 year old white girl. These are the real questions that should be asked and the parents of the 6 year old should have legal representation!
I’m confused now. The teacher said the school has a zero-tolerance policy for racism and BULLYING. But earlier the article stated she was being chased by the (five years her senior) girls. What gives?
The only reason this was ‘blown out of proportion’ is because they were covering their asses due to some poor little black bully getting her feelings hurt. Pathetic.
What child under the age of 8 hasn’t made embarassing comment in public; they just don’t understand tact, impulse control and a million other rules and regulations governing human interaction. It’s not their fault.
I was in the grocery store with my father as a very young child when we saw an old african american friend of his. Apparently I exclaimed “You’re black!” like he was the first black person I had ever seen (might have been back in those days), embarassing everyone involved I’m sure. It doesn’t mean I was racist; I was just a kid with no filter on my mouth! I was probably just as likely to say “Your jeans are blue! Your sweater is ugly!”
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