A War on Black Children?
Against The Current vol. 84
The Editors
http://www.solidarity-us.org//node/924
Date Written: 2000-01-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2000
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX12919
Two montrous events have opened a window on a daily reality: In the name of safe streets and schools, an undeclared war has been opened on a generation of African-American children. In affluent suburban Oakland County, Michigan, a nearly all-white jury convicted a 13-year-old youth of second-degree murder, tried as an adult in a shooting that occurred when he was 11 years of age. In Decatur, Illinois, seven Black students were expelled from high school by a nearly all-white school board, against the opposition of the only Black member, for a brawl in the stands at a football game.
