In the summer of 2000, a group of six women-all Robbinsville High School students or alumnae, demanded accountability from Robbinsville Public Schools on racial justice. Their worthy mission hoped to educate local leaders and community at large about steps necessary to help Robbinsville become an anti-racist town. In February, 2021, Mercer County Commissioner Sam Frisby hosted a forum that included a panel of community members, local activists, and experts, including Delia Pollard, Amman Seehra, Kiran Agrahara, and others. Indian kids, anyone considered different than mainstream Caucasian students. “I just want you guys to know racism is still real and what these parents are teaching their kids is to hate Black kids.” “I’m just really sad and upset and angry that I have to take my daughter out of school due to her safety because of the color of her skin,” she added. “And they don’t like Black people, at all.” And I’m not going to leave my child in this school until they find out who did this because whoever did this, really hate her,” she said in the live. “I’m lost for words right now and I’m very pissed off. Jones filmed a 28-minute Facebook Live video Thursday morning, after receiving notice of the second incident. The “N-word” hardly grasps the severity of this and other raw racial situations. No apology for a step away from dummying down racist slurs.
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