Meanwhile, at Karen Pence's school............

[CatWoman]

Sixth grade boys accused of pinning down black girl and cutting off her dreadlocks

A black middle school student from Virginia is accusing three white boys of pinning her down and cutting off her dreadlocks. The incident took place at Immanuel Christian School — where Vice President Mike Pence's wife, Karen Pence, is a teacher.

Amari Allen, a 12-year-old student at the private K-12 Christian school, said the boys called her dreadlocks "ugly" and "nappy" before cutting them off on the playground during recess.

"They kept laughing and calling me names," Amari told CBS affiliate WUSA-TV, tearing up. "They called me 'ugly,' said, 'I shouldn't have been born.' They called me 'an attention-seeker.'"

According to WUSA, one of the boys allegedly covered Amari's mouth while another held her hands behind her back and a third took a pair of scissors to her dreadlocks.

"They ran off laughing, and I was just sitting there," Amari said.

The alleged incident occurred on Monday, but the shy preteen said she didn't tell her family about it until Wednesday, after her grandmother noticed her hair looked different. She feared retaliation if she confessed the truth, she said.

"It's very painful," said Cynthia Allen, Amari's grandmother. "I want to see them dismissed from the school. I want to see something done."

Allen's family pays nearly $12,000 per year for Amari to attend the school, which made headlines earlier this year after Karen Pence took an art teaching job at the famously anti-LGBTQ institution.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sixth-grade-boys-accused-of-pinning-down-black-girl-and-cutting-off-her-dreadlocks/?fbclid=IwAR0OdU-tkblYt4BQAETw7v0-UqowI1pwafmCet-0PAvnpdPXCKwGI20EkGg

[applegrove]

1. What is the problem some white people have with dreadlocks? I hate to think what

the kids who did this will grow up to be, i mean other than republicans. Dreadlocks are gorgeous.

[HipChick]

3. Fairfax County....one the richest counties in the US

and bastion of white privilege..

[applegrove]

4. So wrong. It is some sort of fetish or meme the right wing as spread

when calling the police on black kid's lemonade stands didn't play well, or something.

[milestogo]

2. $12,000 per year to learn that Christians can be racist assholes.

Hell, you can get that for free lots of places.

[RainCaster]

5. I hope she gets a Netflix series about this shit

Her family deserves better than this

[uponit7771]

7. +1

[SCVDem]

6. Time to re-release the movie 10.

Still hate dreds?

[NCLefty]

8. That's the school that kicks out gay kids, eh?

Mother is as mean as Trump. Howbou'DAH?

[Celerity]

9. Lock those little nazis the fuck up in a borstal for a few months

[irisblue]

10. This part chills me

"According to WUSA, one of the boys allegedly covered Amari's mouth while another held her hands behind her back and a third took a pair of scissors to her dreadlocks."


They are working together to overpower another person. Today cutting hair, what next ?

[lostnfound]

13. Psychologically reminiscent of a gang rape. So disturbing.

Way to teach compassion. Wonder if any of the parents will understand that intolerance is being actively taught.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

11. The parents of the three boys should be shamed in public.

Put their mugs on the front page of a local paper for a month with appropriate labels.

Guaranteed this overt racism originated at home.........

[lostnfound]

14. Maybe not all three. All it takes is one. The others follow. Nt

[mnhtnbb]

12. Little Kavanaughs in training.

Where was the playground supervisor? What students stood around and watched?