feature: “eighth grader records classmates calling him ‘n***a’, fears returning to school”

With the events of last year in Ferguson and New York, and the recent case of Walter Scott in South Carolina, most are aware more than ever that racism remains one of the greatest issues facing America. Now a new report from The Grio is showing just how entrenched the racism is; reporting of an eighth grader, Phoenix Williams, from Michigan who recorded two of his classmates bullying him on a school bus and using racial slurs. Williams (a student at Bloomfield Hills Middle School), now scared to go back to school, says: “I really don’t feel safe going back to school, at all, because both of them are going to be there”. Read more on the story (and see the video footage) here. 

By Alexander Aplerku, AFROPUNK Contributor