Racial tensions at prep school prompt talks

Donovan Slack:

Milton Academy canceled two afternoon classes and called an emergency assembly yesterday in an effort to defuse racial tensions that erupted at the prep school over comments that appeared last week on a school-sponsored website and on fliers scattered in a campus building, school officials said.

In the first instance, which occurred on the school's Young Republicans online forum, students were commenting on recent controversial remarks by conservative radio host William Bennett that suggested the crime rate would decline if black babies were aborted.

The school would not detail what was said on the online forum, but many students were offended by the comments, according to The Milton Paper, a student newspaper at the academy.

It was not clear if the comments considered offensive were made by Young Republicans members.

Within days, papers were found spread across a campus building floor with the words, "[expletive] kill all whites," the newspaper reported.

School officials said yesterday that the incidents are under investigation, but students involved are not expected to face discipline.

I'm pretty sure that if the school found papers with the words "kill all blacks" then the students involved would be expelled or even charged with a hate crime.