Philadelphia school covers up racial violence against Asians, says complaint

[PrismatexV8]

[url]http://www.philly.com/philly/education/87606217.html?viewAll=y[/url]

[quote]Duyngoc Truong is a lithe, 16-year-old junior who stands 5-foot-3 and weighs 108 pounds.

At dismissal Dec. 3, she was chased through the streets outside South Philadelphia High School until she ran out of room to run, pinned against a brick wall of the St. Agnes Continuing Care Center by a mob of a hundred, and pummeled about the face and head.

"I thought, 'Oh, my God, maybe I'm going to die,' " she said.

She told her story to an investigator who helped compile the official school-district report on the Dec. 3 violence. But in an interview, Truong disputed how the report describes a key part of the assault.

Interviews with six Asian students and a legal complaint obtained by the newspaper show:

The students say investigators ignored crucial portions of their accounts of the violence.

Youths insist that interviewers cut off their attempts to place the Dec. 3 violence in the context of years of assaults against Asian students.

At least 26 separate assaults against Asian students occurred during the 2008-09 school year alone, the complaint says.

Retired federal judge James Giles, who conducted the inquiry at the request of Superintendent Arlene Ackerman, said his report was objective, balanced, and aimed at discovering the truth.

Neither he nor his staff blocked any student's attempt to describe earlier incidents at the school, he said, and all of the interviewed students were afforded full opportunity to tell all that they knew.

"The first question," Giles said, "was what do you know of your own personal knowledge? What have you heard, if anything, and is there anything that you'd like to say that we haven't asked you about?"

Anyone with additional information should report it to the district, he said. In fact, "if the school district wants me to do a further investigation, I'd be happy to," he said.

Among the incidents recounted in the Feb. 23 Giles report is the horrific dismissal-time attack on 10 Vietnamese students outside the school. The report says the students were assaulted after "something" - unknown and unidentified - caused them to run from their adult escorts and into danger.

Truong, in the newspaper interview, said there was no mystery about it. She and her friends were being followed by 20 to 40 African American students. When that group ran toward them, the Vietnamese, mostly girls, ran to try to escape, she said.

"I saw them run at us, and then I started to run," she said.

Giles said he did not see "any gross inconsistency" between Truong's account and the report.

"The people who were there with the students, side by side with them, told me the students, as I understand it, started to walk faster and faster, and they ran."

The report is deliberately limited in scope, focused on Dec. 2 and 3. To have delved into every previous incident, Giles said, would have required staff, resources, and time that he did not have.

Asian community advocates say a major failure of the report is it does not tie the Dec. 3 violence to years of previous attacks. The daylong assaults Dec. 3 were a culmination, not an aberration, they said.

According to the legal document obtained by The Inquirer, which outlined the physical assaults on Asian students last school year, one boy was beaten so badly that the bones in his face were broken. Another was beaten so often that he dropped out of school, the complaint says.
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Remember, it's not racism if black people are doing it, because black people can't be racist. :downs:

[stupid idiot]

Fucking niggers.......Oh hey there, TH89, I was just kidding. I meant fucking african americans.

[editline]04:19PM[/editline]

niggers

[highlight](User was banned for this post ("Racism" - SteveUK))[/highlight]

[Ronin]

Racism is always covered up in most cases, unless the parents figure out what is going on and go public with it.

[Dr. Freeman]

This is rather revolting, and I seriously this stops and never happens ever again.

[QUOTE=stupid idiot;20837762]Fucking niggers.......Oh hey there, TH89, I was just kidding. I meant fucking african americans.[/QUOTE]

You can have a white African american, so blacks would be more appropriate as not all blacks are from Africa.

[Aman V]

[QUOTE=Dr. Freeman;20837966]This is rather revolting, and I seriously this stops and never happens ever again.

You can have a white African american, so blacks would be more appropriate as not all blacks are from Africa.[/QUOTE]

Well originally yeah they are but whatever keeping it on topic;

Lol why would a mob of HUNDREDS of people be chasing this 1 asian girl? Seems like something you'd see in a movie. They must really hate asian people.

[editline]09:29PM[/editline]

And also what type of guy beats up a girl? A timid asian one at that.
Assuming this isn't a mob of hundreds of black girls...

[BBKF]

[QUOTE=Aman V;20837993]While originally yeah they are but whatever keeping it on topic;

Lol why would a mob of HUNDREDS of people be chasing this 1 asian girl? Seems like something you'd see in a movie. They must really hate asian people.

[editline]09:29PM[/editline]

And also what type of guy beats up a girl? A timid asian one at that.
Assuming this isn't a mob of hundreds of black girls...[/QUOTE]

I have seen easily 100+ come to see a fight, waaay more if someone is just getting beat down.

[thisispain]

[QUOTE=PrismatexV8;20837325]
Remember, it's not racism if black people are doing it, because black people can't be racist. :downs:[/QUOTE]

of course they can

i know you were being sarcastic, but even then it was dumb

[Zenpod]

[QUOTE=Aman V;20837993]HUNDREDS of people be chasing this 1 asian girl?[/QUOTE]

Something Sounds Incredably wrong with this but I can't figure out what

[64k1]

[QUOTE=Aman V;20837993]Well originally yeah they are but whatever keeping it on topic;

Lol why would a mob of HUNDREDS of people be chasing this 1 asian girl? Seems like something you'd see in a movie. They must really hate asian people.

[editline]09:29PM[/editline]

And also what type of guy beats up a girl? A timid asian one at that.
Assuming this isn't a mob of hundreds of black girls...[/QUOTE]

It was a group of Asians, not just the one they interviewed for this article.

Shit like this is disgusting. It's an obvious double-standard, and they're doing nothing to the fuckers who perpetrated the acts, just covering everything up. Ackerman and Giles are hacks -- they didn't do shit and it cost $100k.

[Jund]

I'm the only racist Asian person I know. It's weird.

White people are racist. Black people are racist. But Asians aren't.

[Aman V]

[QUOTE=Jund;20838235]I'm the only racist Asian person I know. It's weird.

White people are racist. Black people are racist. But Asians aren't.[/QUOTE]

lul u asian

[radioactive]

Nothing wrong with Asians, they make lovely curry, as long as they keep making lovely curry, I don't mind them. Same with the Chinese and their delicious food.

[markfu]

That's why my parents moved us from there.

Now I live in a boring suburb.
And the only racism I experience is from white people

[editline]08:33AM[/editline]

[QUOTE=Jund;20838235]I'm the only racist Asian person I know. It's weird.

White people are racist. Black people are racist. But Asians aren't.[/QUOTE]

My parents seem to be pretty prejudice against black people. Maybe because they lived in New York and Philadelphia for a while and were pushed about because of being foreigners and what not.

Oh yeah my dad also hates Mexicans

[Eluveitie]

[QUOTE=Jund;20838235]I'm the only racist Asian person I know. It's weird.

White people are racist. Black people are racist. But Asians aren't.[/QUOTE]

I always thought of asian people as really civilized. Isn't that a good thing for the world?

[Gy.Gray]

[QUOTE=Eluveitie;20851307]I always thought of asian people as really civilized. Isn't that a good thing for the world?[/QUOTE]

We are, somewhat. We can get pretty violent too.

Normally it's our parents that are the racist ones.

[Eluveitie]

[QUOTE=Gy.Gray;20851361]We are, somewhat. We can get pretty violent too.

Normally it's our parents that are the racist ones.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, excluding the Triads and whatnot. And I suppose racism is everywhere. Must be an ingrained instinct in humans.

[Baldr]

But but but, the media tells me that racism is death.

[AlphaWeeaboo]

They must have wanted a bukkake.

[KG_1]

[QUOTE=Gy.Gray;20851361]We are, somewhat. We can get pretty violent too.

Normally it's our parents that are the racist ones.[/QUOTE]

Viet fucking Nam!

[postmanX3]

[QUOTE=thisispain;20838096]of course they can

i know you were being sarcastic, but even then it was dumb[/QUOTE]

Is it your job to make senseless comments that always pointlessly bash other users? :colbert:

[PrismatexV8]

[QUOTE=KG_1;20855267]Viet fucking Nam![/QUOTE]

I don't see any connection to Vietnam, KG_1.

[TH89]

[QUOTE=postmanX3;20855381]Is it your job to make senseless comments that always pointlessly bash other users? :colbert:[/QUOTE]

If they make stupid posts, yeah.

Whenever a story comes up about how some people were racist to black people, you people throw a hissy fit about it's a mountain out of a molehill and how stories about racist black people never get reported. When a story about racist black people gets reported, you go around posting it and acting like you're uncovering some kind of conspiracy.

[thisispain]

[QUOTE=postmanX3;20855381]Is it your job to make senseless comments that always pointlessly bash other users? :colbert:[/QUOTE]

i was going to respond but TH89 hit the nail on the head

rating me box isn't going to change anything

[Gy.Gray]

[QUOTE=KG_1;20855267]Viet fucking Nam![/QUOTE]

Excuse me

[Ins4ne]

[QUOTE=Gy.Gray;20856808]Excuse me[/QUOTE]

[editline]07:35PM[/editline]

Who am I kidding i'm semi-racist as well.

[postmanX3]

[QUOTE=thisispain;20856218]i was going to respond but TH89 hit the nail on the head

rating me box isn't going to change anything[/QUOTE]

I didn't rate you box. :downs:

[editline]04:02PM[/editline]

[QUOTE=TH89;20855475]If they make stupid posts, yeah.

Whenever a story comes up about how some people were racist to black people, you people throw a hissy fit about it's a mountain out of a molehill and how stories about racist black people never get reported. When a story about racist black people gets reported, you go around posting it and acting like you're uncovering some kind of conspiracy.[/QUOTE]

Disregarding that, he said "Of course it can" as though he thought the post was serious and then said it was sarcasm. It's just... silly.

[Raiskauskone]

In my country, cases like this usually are other way around: group of black people beat up a woman: 12 years of jailtime. And mind you this actuall happened

[thisispain]

[QUOTE=Raiskauskone;20857458]In my country, cases like this usually are other way around: group of black people beat up a woman: 12 years of jailtime. And mind you this actuall happened[/QUOTE]

it actuall happen?

[Raiskauskone]

[QUOTE=thisispain;20857505]it actuall happen?[/QUOTE]

Yes, a woman in Helsinki was apparently attacked by a bunch of angry black people. All of them jailed for time of 6-12 years.

[TH89]

[QUOTE=postmanX3;20857279]Disregarding that, he said "Of course it can" as though he thought the post was serious and then said it was sarcasm. It's just... silly.[/QUOTE]
Sounds like the problem is more that you had a hard time understanding his post