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NiX · (This post was last modified: 03-22-2010, 01:19 PM by NiX.)

Team Liquid Wrote:Duyngoc Truong is a little, 16-year-old junior who stands 5-foot-3 and weighs 108 pounds.

At dismissal Dec. 3, she was chased through the streets outside South Philadelphia High School until she ran out of room to run, pinned against a brick wall of the St. Agnes Continuing Care Center by a mob of a hundred, and pummeled about the face and head.

"I thought, 'Oh, my God, maybe I'm going to die,' " she said.

Truong, in the newspaper interview, said there was no mystery about it. She and her friends were being followed by 20 to 40 African American students. When that group ran toward them, the Vietnamese, mostly girls, ran to try to escape, she said.

"I saw them run at us, and then I started to run," she said.

Giles said he did not see "any gross inconsistency" between Truong's account and the report.

"The people who were there with the students, side by side with them, told me the students, as I understand it, started to walk faster and faster, and they ran."

The report is deliberately limited in scope, focused on Dec. 2 and 3. To have delved into every previous incident, Giles said, would have required staff, resources, and time that he did not have.

Asian community advocates say a major failure of the report is it does not tie the Dec. 3 violence to years of previous attacks. The daylong assaults Dec. 3 were a culmination, not an aberration, they said.

According to the legal document obtained by The Inquirer, which outlined the physical assaults on Asian students last school year, one boy was beaten so badly that the bones in his face were broken. Another was beaten so often that he dropped out of school, the complaint says.

Black judge says its not a hate crime
http://www.philly.com/philly/education/8...?viewAll=y

26 Asian students were beaten in one day
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/homepa..._High.html

50 Asian students violently attacked in South Philadelphia
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/nation...99087.html

Source: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmess..._id=116829

If it's something a white guy does to a black guy, it's racist. When it's a black guy doing something to anybody else, it's nothing.

medusa0 · 03-22-2010, 01:34 PM

Something to think about isn't it? Ermm

I wonder what the other side's point of view is...

NiX · 03-22-2010, 01:39 PM

Well we here are merely spectating since we're just westernized Asians. There's a more interesting discussion going on in the source link that I provided cuz their community is US-based but racially diverse. But even a majority of them are saying it's racist.

AppleHead · 03-22-2010, 03:23 PM

(03-22-2010, 01:39 PM)NiX Wrote: But even a majority of them are saying it's racist.

That's because it is. There's no other way to explain it.

70% black population says a lot too, though. If it was the other way around, don't you think bullying would occur, regardless? Imagine a handful of black kids going to a 70% mainland chinese high school.

NiX · 03-22-2010, 03:37 PM

Yeah, but everyone'd just like to think that the U.S. is better than that.

Twin-Skies · 03-22-2010, 09:27 PM

(03-22-2010, 03:23 PM)AppleHead Wrote:
(03-22-2010, 01:39 PM)NiX Wrote: But even a majority of them are saying it's racist.

Imagine a handful of black kids going to a 70% mainland chinese high school.