Comments on: Racial Hate Crime at MSSD? Police Investigation

By: cm

cm — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:21:05 +0000

It’s so sad that all of you talk as if you know what happened… my son who is 15 and white was involved in this… his grandmother is black and 3 of his sisters are black… he has no understanding of discrimination and does not know what a swastika is… He is developmentally 10 or 11 and socially weak. He is not a pro signer nor is he a pro oral… He was stuck in hearing schools all his life and has only been in deaf school for 2 years. He was invited by older students to play a game of “war” where the upstairs floor is one team and the downstairs floor was another team… the black student was captured by another black student, not because he was black but because he was on the other team. they tied him up as a prisoner of war and demanded to know the other teams plan and strategy. My son was directed by the other students to question him about the other teams plans. the student who was tied up was laughing at the questions and my son quit because he couldn’t get answers and went back to his room with another friend to play video games. Some time after that is when the disgusting racial hate took place. My son should never have been involved but truly didn’t know what was going on yet he is now out of school too. According to dc police he is a victim as well. Some kids are not educated or developmentally capable of understanding social issues although their stated age says they should be. While my son did the wrong thing, it was not with malicious intent. It is not correct to say that nobody was hurt.. the hurt among many of the students is extreme. My son still refuses to eat and cries uncontrollably each day a week later… the child that was tied up was his friend… he thought he was playing an innocent game of war where they take over the upstairs floor. When you entrust your child with special needs to a school and culture that you, as a parent, don’t fully understand, you think you are doing the right thing, you pray that they will be safe and taught, yet you later find out they are disliked because they speak and taken advantage of because they are weaker. Many of the stronger and older students that were involved were only given in dorm restriction rather than being sent home. They were wise to culture and language and pinned their disgraceful behaviors on the younger and weaker students. Those students who were in control and more powerful are the ones who have gotten away with their actions by using the weaker and younger students as scapegoats.

By: BAM BAM of FSDB

BAM BAM of FSDB — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:58:43 +0000

What happened at MSSD was stupid we all agree on that but wether its considered a hate crime or modern day youth being ingorant (once again) is up for each and every one of you to decide(personally) and with this being a High School and the students at an age where they should know what “KKK” means I mean we all have heard the stories of the burning cross and the white coned hoods. I’m sure the individuals involved did too and they have no one else to blame but themselves…they should have thought twice…I personally am not all that suprised at this incident. I mean there are laws against this kind of stuff but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist…so instead of everyone looking at MSSD in disbelief how about we all look around us. Look at the world we live in and realize that the incident at MSSD can’t even be weighed up on the scale side by side with other incidents that have resulted in a mass number of deaths due to hate crime or just HATE.

…..THINK ABOUT IT. Thank You.

By: Diane

Diane — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:33:37 +0000

Scary out there … I have seen the drastic news that have changed lately. The small incident makes it bigger and it gets out of control. Pretty sad out there.

By: Anti RR

Anti RR — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:46:02 +0000

Richard is the Deaf Community’s nutcase

It is just a stupid teenage prank. As usual, the media sensationalize and overblow the severity of the incident. One African American participated in this prank. Is he a racist? No, this wasn’t a hate crime.

By: Richard Roehm

Richard Roehm — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:55:05 +0000

The high horse never felt this good!

By: David

David — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:12:59 +0000

To Richard Roehm,

When will you get off the high horse and get a drip? What does Kappa Gamma fraternity had to do with it?

To everyone:

Quite honestly, I, myself, were former oral student, learned sign language at Gally and learned ASL thru various social outlets but not at Gally, thought those seven suspects are probably pro-ASL students mocking at weak-asl user (I said this because this is what I see at Gally many times e.g. index finger sign like “hearing” at the forehead, need to say any more?) in which ending up this incident.

I suspect that Black student who is one of the seven suspects probably is ignorant and didn’t have any clue what “KKK” and swastika mean but go along with six White students (obviously know what KKK and swastika mean) under peer pressure situation. I am not surprising this happening under peer pressure where there is support for pro-ASL students. Again, this is all speculation on my part.

What bothering me is Katherine A. Jankowski’s message indicating there are no injuries were sustained during this accident!!! Is she blind to emotional and mental injuries?

You could write it off that it is all innocent act that ended up harming the student’s emotional and mentally well being; nevertheless it is still a hate crime.

By: Richard Roehm

Richard Roehm — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:37:02 +0000

I’m very excited that this news is breaking out.

I see MSSD as a breeding ground of hate like a boot camp. Thats where future soldiers of American Sign Language (ASL) learn their tricks. Once they pass the ‘crucible’, through the Kappa Gamma fraternity, they learn how to export scourge and oppression upon deaf groups and people who do not use or embrace ASL.

Getting the spotlight on the recent MSSD incident is a very positive step toward eliminating this particular breeding ground that has farmed, sponsored, and encouraged hate toward people and groups who dont use or support ASL.

Richard Roehm

By: DT

DT — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:51:20 +0000

That’s why I don’t believe it was a hate crime, per se. Write it off to innocent, ignorant youth. The media sensationalism surrounding this incident angers me more.

By: Jean Boutcher

Jean Boutcher — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:29:13 +0000

An African American student to another African American student? Utterly inconceivable!

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:03:15 +0000

One of the seven suspects is Black. Man, how stupidddddd is that? Don’t he know what KKK stand for?

Kick them in jail and throw away the key. Stupid kids! Bring more negative coverage to Gallaudet.