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November 6th there was a big fight in Capitol Hill High School. It initiated in the cafeteria and continued in the hall. The fight started with an argument between a Mexican and an Afro-American student. The argument escalated and culminated with the arrest of seven participating male and female students.
During the violent incident, a policeman received blows and was forced to use pepper tear gas in the humanity of three students; fact that infuriated some students and their parents, who protested the “harsh treatment of their little angels”. The quarrel culminated with the arrest with disorderly conduct charges of Antonette Goff, Gardenia Castle, Heidi Santos, Nicolette Lewis, Kiara Clark, Chris and Alphonso Sauls, all minors, with the exception of the last one. These students, in addition, received punishments from school authorities.
It must be mentioned that these fights between Hispanic and black students with the intervention of gang members, have been provoked frequently in the schools of Oklahoma City, predominantly, at Capitol Hill High School and Jackson Middle School. In these brawls, usually, Hispanic students have received the worse part, as not only were they object of aggression from Afro-American companions, but were suspended by biased Afro-American principals who, frequently, discriminated against the Latin students.
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The fights are usually started by trivial issues, such as derogatory insults like, “Wet- backs go home”, or the objection of Hispanic female students to date black students, or in other occasions, simple pushing and/or other provocations.
The last fight was started by the disagreement of students with the results in the recent Presidential election of Barak Obama.
Apparently, these “punks” are not aware of their roots, and no one has taught them that Afro-Americans and Latinos come from marginated backgrounds and their ancestors have been victims of abuse, violence, discrimination and other vices of racism.
It appears, some blacks want to forget that they have been, and, continue being rejected and discriminated; and to feel great and important they must have someone to discriminate. This is like a hen house in which the roosters that are above drop their dung to the ones below them.
In our previous edition I wrote an article, in which I said that “Hispanic students continue at risk of violenc” due to the racial discrimination and by the infiltration of gang members amongst the students, and how veridical continues being this threat.
The solution is not in suspending students because this amounts to giving them vacation that will delay their progress in their studies and ensures their chance of failure; in other words, with the suspensions the system, solely, puts more delinquents in the streets.
An alternative that would give constructive results would be to create alternative schools, like “Booth Camps”, for rebellious students, in which they work and they receive classes of conduct handling, civism, camaraderie and simultaneously continue with their studies. Evidently, students involved in fights and disturbing behavior come from, totally dysfunctional homes and do not value, in the minimum, an education; neither do they know who they are, where they come from, nor where they are going.
These punks must be taught that as long as fighting between minorities is going on, they are being “ignorant fools and idiots”. They must be aware that Hispanics, blacks and members from other minorities must unite or face the risk of being victims of racist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, the Minutemen, the Ironmen, the Skin Heads, and other supremacist groups that operate in the the United States.
Wake up kids! And do not be “foolish and stupid”. The fight is not between members of minorities, but against the promoters of racism, hatred and violence.
In this Christmas, we must remember the teachings of the “Prince of Peace”, Jesus Christ, “love one another as he has loved us”. “Love thy brother as thou love thy self” and “Blessed are the peace makers for they will inherit the earth”.





