What’s Missing from This Headline: “High School Kids Attack 61-Year-Old Teacher”?

 


 

Oh, yeah, that “social construction” stuff: “Black High School Kids Attack White, 61-Year-Old Teacher”? Still Better: 16-Year-Old, Black Student Suckerpunches 61-Year-Old White, Female Teacher (Possibly with Brass Knuckles), While His Black, 17-Year-Old Accomplice Films Attack.”

Mobile, Alabama: Meet Randolph Parker, 16, who must presently be a celebrity, though he’s sitting in a jail cell. He’s the star of the video above, in which he sucker punches white, 61-year-old teacher Melinda Rudisill, while Dominick Harris, 17, filmed the attack on his cell phone, at Mobile’s Murphy High School. The two crime partners were caught on school videotape. They had planned the attack, and lounged in the hall outside the Miss Rudisill’s classroom unmolested for eight minutes, waiting to attack her. Parker wore a red bandanna, the uniform of the racist black Bloods gang.

The demographics for Murphy’s 2,568 students look bad: 61 percent non-Hispanic black, 35 percent non-Hispanic white, but its test scores look very good, above the statewide average on most indices. Prosecutor Caroline Siderius says the local middle school is much more violent.

To get an idea of the hell that white teachers routinely endure in racist black schools—if you’ll pardon the redundancy—see the chapter, “Education: Fake Pedagogy, Real Hate,” in The State of White America-2007, which I edited and co-authored for NPI with economist Edwin S. Rubenstein and historian Robert J. Stove.

Both crime partners were charged with second degree assault. Randolph Parker is being held on $250,000 bond; Dominick Harris is being held on $100,000 bond. Melinda Rudisill needed 20 stitches; police believe that Parker used a brass knuckles on her.

A member of Harris’ family started a commotion in the courtroom, and was charged with contempt of court. WKRG News5’s Jessica Taloney reported that the attackers could get up to 10 years in prison, but I would be surprised to see them get more than probation. Although Capt. J.E. Dove of the Mobile Police Department talked tough on camera, and WKRG did report on the case, neither of which would likely have occurred in a progressive place like New York, even in Alabama, white blood comes cheap these days. And note that Capt. Dove failed to state the obvious—that this was a racially motivated attack—and Parker and Harris were not charged with a hate crime.

A tip ‘o the hat to American Renaissance.