Before I begin let me say that this post will be very biased and extremely opinionated. I don’t care if you disagree with my opinion. In fact, I welcome the debate about this subject and I wish someone would prove me wrong.

Now that I’ve given my disclaimer let me get into the meat of what I really want to say. I have seen the videos of the White police officer physically removing the young black student from the classroom in South Carolina. First, let me say that I don’t agree with the young lady’s behavior. You cannot refuse to leave the classroom when the teacher and subsequent school administrators instruct you to do so. I’ve been a teacher at one point and I know whenever I’ve had to get a student leave my class they do so, and if they didn’t I called school officials.

That notwithstanding, I damn sure don’t agree with a grown ass man physically assaulting a teenager in order to get her out of the classroom. Now from what I understand she was on cell phone and wouldn’t get off the phone. Again, yes, she should have been asked to put the phone away and the teacher has a right to take the phone if she doesn’t want to listen, but again should this white man abuse her to get her out the classroom….NO.

I also heard the clip from the Sheriff who said he was looking at the actions of the officer, even though he feels that there could have been a partial explanation for why he was forceful because she was hitting the officer. If his dumb ass is watching the same video I’m watching, maybe she’s reacting that way because of how physically aggressive he was towards her.

I do think that this situation has no good solutions because the student chose not to be compliant with the instructions of her teacher. And for her to be disobedient towards the administration official was a little worse. I do think however, that the teacher could have done a better job of handling the situation if all she was doing was talking or texting on her phone. I’m certainly trying to see if I can see a situation where if that was a white student where the officer or teacher would have behaved in the manner that they did.

And for that Sheriff to throw in that the officer is/was dating a Black woman is laughable to me. I’m so sick and damn tired of people trying to use the one or two or three Black friends or lovers, past or present, that someone has for validating their beliefs that their actions were not race related. I mean really?? If you counting the number of people then doesn’t that clue yo dumb ass in even more that there could be something to the story.

Either way this story is very disturbing and I’m very much so looking forward to the outcome. To think that the student is currently facing criminal charges as a result of this situation is ignorant and really suspect. Maybe we should continue to pay attention to these types of issues as much as we pay attention to everything else. Students need to be protected too.