re: Initially Dbags doxxed the wrong kid

Arlen Parsa
@arlenparsa
Hey Twitter, we need to have a talk.

Last night I learned & confirmed the name of the "main student" from the #CovingtonCatholic incident. The kid grinning in front of the Native elder.

Hop in this thread because I'm going to walk you through some deep but important stuff. 1/
I am sure the teachers at #CovingtonCatholic are hard working people and they don't deserve anyone's scorn per-say.

But the school itself needs to reckon with how an a nearly all-white atmosphere can lead to, at the very least, "blind spots" in these kids' racial awareness.
While we're at it, we also need to talk about gender at #CovingtonCatholic.

I have heard from members of the community there is an ingrained sexism problem at the school (which refers to women as "females").

Cov students have also harassed gay students at other schools.
I think #CovingtonCatholic as a school community needs to do some soul searching about gender, bullying, homophobia, and especially race.

They're going to need some space to do that. Let's not be a mob like they seemed to be in that video.
Thanks for following along this thread and this journey.

As you can probably tell, a lot of research and discussions with people in the community went into it.

I would appreciate a retweet or two if you found any of it meaningful to you.

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Jemele Hill
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@jemelehill
I appreciate the thoughtfulness of this thread, and agree that this school has deep-rooted racial and diversity issues. That being said, POC are tired of being humiliated by people who know better but don’t do better because their privilege allows them to dehumanize people.