Posted: Sep 12, 2017 9:18 pm
theropod wrote:Oh hell yes the 14 year old grasps it. The whole usa grasps it. Nobody seems to care that 14 year olds graps it, or that the whole usa graps it, and that's the problem.
RS
What makes you so sure? What exposure does a middle schooler in New Hampshire in 2017 have to lynchings? It's not a subject - not just lynchings but the history of racism in the US as a whole - that schools dive too deeply into in early on or at all. So maybe a kid learns something about it on the internet or TV but that is hardly going to give them a full grasp of what it means.
Of course fucking hanging somebody - a much younger child no less - is something so fucked up that a child that age should know better and be held accountable for, but I don't see a reason to assume it's something necessarily so much more insidious.
Basically what it comes down to is that I don't see this as necessarily being so much different than any other time minors commit serious offenses such that it calls for different treatment. I'll wait for more information before worrying that there are roving middle school Klans out there targeting minorities.