Was Boy in K.C. Fire Attack Burned by His School’s Racist Teaching?

By Selwyn Duke

The boy raised his hand, eager to answer the question.  “What would you know about it?” exclaimed the teacher dismissively.  “You’re not our race.”

This was not dialogue from a Hollywood movie.  According to a woman named Melissa Coon, it was what a teacher at East High School in Kansas City, MO, told her 13-year-old son, Allen, when he attempted to answer a question during Black History Month.  Coon identifies that teacher as Mrs. Karla Dorsey, who is black; Allen is white.

As has already been reported, Allen was a victim of a vicious racial attack last week in which two older black teens doused him with gasoline and set him alight, saying “This is what you deserve.  You get what you deserve, white boy.”  Not surprisingly, Coon has pulled her son out of East High and, concerned about further racial violence, intends to leave the K.C. area.    

While this crime is making headlines, Coon states that it was merely the horrible culmination of continual racial harassment her son had to endure at East High.  Moreover, after conducting an investigation that included extensive interviews with parents and students, I’ve learned that Coon’s son is not alone.  Other white students also report a pattern of racial harassment at the high school at the hands of their peers – and, shockingly, their teachers.      

Two of these victims were the twin 14-year-old daughters (first names withheld upon request) of Karin Wildeisen.  Ever since their family relocated from Texas they had endured racial animosity in the Kansas City school system and inappropriate behavior by staff, which included teachers laughing while boys humiliatingly manhandled the girls and a teacher slapping one of them on the backside.  But there was far worse to come.

The twins started coming home and talking about the goings-on in an advanced-English class taught by a teacher Wildeisen identifies as Ms. Veda Monday.  Wildeisen said that her daughters told her, “There are four white kids in the class; they are being targeted racially.”  They said that Monday, who is black, was feeding the class racial material, about which Wildeisen notes, “She’s teaching advanced English; she has no reason to be teaching civil rights.” 

But then there was the straw that broke the camel’s back.  One day Monday allegedly showed an explicit film involving portrayals of whites lynching blacks and then, reports ex-Texan Wildeisen, “in front of the class attacked my daughters, telling them that ‘everybody from Texas is ignorant rednecks’” and that all white people were ‘responsible for Jasper because [their] skin is white.’”  This reference is to an atrocity in Jasper, TX, in which three white men murdered a black man in 1998.

Where would a teacher get the idea that all whites are responsible for the Jasper tragedy?  It’s not hard to figure out.  Black-liberation theology (BLT) instructs, writes the man some regard as its father, Professor James Cone, “All white men are responsible for white oppression.”  And how common is BLT?  Well, Cone’s books were required reading at Barack Obama’s long-time house of worship in Chicago, Trinity United Church of Christ.

The end result of this is that Wildeisen, like Melissa Coon, decided to pull her children out of East High.  Also like Coon, she intends to leave the area, saying that it and the school are a “powder keg.”  As for now, her daughters are studying at home via a distance-learning program.

Another white victim is 15-year-old Ashley Miller, whose family had moved to K.C., MO, from Kansas.  Subject to racial harassment, she was called names such as “white b****.”  She also actually shared a class with Allen Coon, and as the only two white students in the room they became the target of sexual comments.  Moreover, she reports the same experience with race-baiting videos as do the Wildeisens: they would be shown, and an onus would be placed on the white students.  Her mother Melissa told me that she now fears for her daughter’s safety and, you guessed it, is in the process of withdrawing Ashley from East High.  And the rest of the pattern is holding, too: the Millers are contemplating leaving the area.

Yet even putting the brutal fire attack aside, Melissa Coon’s young boy by far got the worst of it.  The tow-headed Allen looks like “the classic all-American white boy,” says his mother, and “after the first week [of school] he was nothing but racially harassed.”  She says that “he was called every racial slur you can imagine,” such as “honkey,” “cracker,” “whitey” and “guero” (a Spanish slang term for whites that can be used in a derogatory way).  He was, she reports, pushed into lockers and was jumped in the bathroom.  And, even before the recent attack, he was sometimes menaced by groups that would follow him part of the way home.

Even more damning, though, is that multiple educators were complicit in the harassment.  Mrs. Coon related an incident in which a teacher she identifies as Ms. Carla Kinder called Allen “Casper” and then “got all the students to get involved.”  Other times, the students would initiate the harassment and the teachers would pick up the baton.  “They would tease him; people would make fun of him and they’d chime in,” said Coon.

Then, as the Wildeisen girls report, as Ashley Miller reports, there were the race-baiting films.  Said Mrs. Coon, “They showed a lot of racial movies.  And people would make comments – lots of comments – especially at him [Allen], during these things.”

And this brings us to the fire attack of last week.  How is it that two teenagers would douse an innocent boy they don’t even know with gasoline and set him alight?  Karin Wildeisen has a theory.  Referring to Ms. Monday’s “English” class, she told me, “I think that the two boys who did this are going to be found in that teacher’s class – or somewhere thereabouts.”

It sure seems likely, and what should we say about East High’s “teaching” model?  Well, imagine repeatedly showing films depicting blacks committing nothing but crimes against whites.  Would there be any question about whether it was race-baiting?  Even Amos ‘n Andy is frowned upon today.

The fact is that, to paraphrase Lincoln, “If you look for the worst in a group, you’re sure to find it.”  If you display a group’s sins to the exclusion of its triumphs ad infinitum, you can make it appear a den of demons.  And, ever since the advent of video technology, propaganda films have been used the world over to cultivate racial and ethnic hostility.  It is Hate 101.

And Indifference 101seems to be a course offering at East High, too.  Melissa Coon had been complaining to the school’s administration about her son’s harassment repeatedly – only to be ignored and stonewalled – repeatedly.  At one point an administrator told her that her son could only have a transfer to another district school but said that Allen would have “more problems there” and that he should stay at more “racially diverse” East High (which has no more than 20 white students).  At another, a vice Principal Coon identifies as Ms. Jessica Bassett denied, while shaking and rubbing her hands together nervously, ever having heard about Allen’s problems even though they had been brought to her attention on at least five occasions.

And Coon’s experience with the local police hasn’t been much better.  Listening to her testimony I got the feeling that K.C. law enforcement didn’t want the arrest and prosecution of two black youths on a hate-crime charge, possibly for fear of the “powder keg.”  Perhaps this is a job for the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division.  Oh, yeah, Eric Holder.    

As for young Allen, he had the presence of mind during the attack to pull his shirt up over his head and smother the flames.  The damage was thus limited to mostly first-degree burns, with his nose suffering second-degree and the possibility of scarring at the top of his lip.  Yet the emotional scars run far deeper, and he is in therapy.  “He has flashbacks,” says Mrs. Coon. “He was in a ball crying….  He said that no one believes him.”  And she states that her five-year-old will often ask, “Are they going to burn me today, mommy?”

On an East High staff page created by alumni, there is the Giovanni Ruffini quotation, “The teacher is like the candle, which lights others, while consuming itself.”  What a contrast between the words of the past and the deeds of the present.

                              This article was first published at American Thinker

                                     © 2012 Selwyn Duke — All Rights Reserved

Comments

[tj]

My fear is that it will take many incidents like the one in K.C. before whites realize the necessity of responding with their own ADL-type defenses. Blacks aren't the only group incubating preposterously negative anti-white bias while going unchallenged with their less caustic public expressions of racism. I'd think that fighting back sooner rather than later would avert a period of violent hate crimes directed at whites. Unfortunately, the schools aren't going to help unless whites organize and persistently file complaints. This K.C. school, for instance, would be a good place to start. I've no doubt that a barrage of e-mails and phone calls from all over the US would at least encourage the administration to reign in the callous indifference to anti-white bullying.

[Ike]

If whites organize to file complaints and to oppose this sort of mis-treatment of children, even if they take great pains to avoid even an appearance of violence, they will immediately be branded in the local, state and national media, as being racists. The school is going to ignore the complaints of the parents. I would not be surprised to find that this school is in a majority-black school district, with few if any white school board members; that would go a long way to explaining the teachers' and administration's indifference to the parents' complaints about the situation and the context of the assault on Allen. What needs to happen is whites need to move out of black-majority residential areas, school districts, towns, cities and counties and take their jobs and their taxes and their kids with them. Find a place to live, work and raise your children where the local authorities will not see them as 'training aids' in teaching the local minority children how to be racist bigots and how to act out that bigotry without any regard for potential punishment. The message ought to be plain, at this point: from the White House down to the local schools (where the faculty, administration and students believe they can get away with it) many black politicians - elected and appointed, local, state and federal - see this time as an opportunity to seek revenge for any real and imagined injuries to blacks and Hispanics. There is no chance that white parents will be able to protect their children in a black-majority jurisdiction, except possibly for criminal prosecutions after their child is kidnapped, brutalized, tortured and finally allowed to die by some minority children or young adults who have been taught that it's okay for them to hate whites and to express that hate in violence because their teachers and mentors - maybe even their parents - have been teaching them the "White Devil" theory of American history. No alternative for whites in such a circumstance: move and move soon.

[Americanius]

So where is Eric Holder's corrupt DOJ? Had this been reversed you can bet the Civil Rights Division of DOJ would have swooped in with their jack booted thugs to guarantee protection of civil rights and "fairness".

Why not take this to the U.N. panel on human rights as the NAACP has done about the new voting ID law in Texas?

Dang! The crickets sure are loud this time.

[Publius]

This illustrates why Europeans, or whites, must see themselves as a distinct people with distinct interests. These tensions and crimes are not circumscribed to one high school in Kansas City, Missouri. Whether it is Columbus Day, President's Day, MLK Day, Black History Month, social studies, etc. the lesson taught in every school in America is that Europeans are an ignoble blight, the colored-races are exemplars of restraint and virtue, and that if only we had a color-blind society, which means the colored-races retain their identities while the whites lose theirs, we would see justice in America. After more than forty years of social engineering the reality of conferring parity to the colored-races is now apparent, and it is not ideal. Today, unfortunately, there are many Americas, and the qualities of the blacks can be seen in Detroit, Michigan, the Mexicans in Laredo, Texas, the whites in Grant's Pass, Oregon. And in mixed communities when crimes are perpetrated against whites, from the White House to the court house, from the classroom to the newsroom, we receive the insolence of office, the law's delay.

Not only must Europeans move to live with their own, they must demand freedom of association to protect their neighborhoods, schools, families and identity. Virtually every people that has existed defined themselves by blood lineage and culture, rather than an amorphous political heritage. It was by our freedom of association and civilized culture that the American Way was forged. Submitting to the coercion to accept otherwise will ensure an American Yugoslavia to be forged instead.

[Ike]

No agency of the United Nations has any legitimate authority over any political question in the United States. That's the answer to "Why not take this to the U.N. ...". That the NAACP thinks that 'letting the Dane into England' will solve their political problems is only a support for my first post. Why? Consider how the NAACP has "advanced" its people; compare the simpliest stats relating to human well-being in the Black American community in 1960 with the same stats for 2010 and you'll see that 'advanced' equals in practice 'retreated'. So I doubt that their decision to turn to that bastion of international bureaucracy and tyranny will turn out well for them and their example ought not to be emulated by the rest of us.

[Beats]

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[merlin1246]

"According to a woman named Melissa Coon,"
>>> What? Is that a joke or an unfortunate coincidence?

[Hennie Breed]

You are lucky in America .We are murdered tortured,raped ,on a daily basis in South Africa and you do nothing!!!!!!

[Lois]

What is a racist? If a person that wants to preserve their civilized culture, their language, their heritage, their FAITH, is called a racist...you may call me a racist...so be it. The time of the political correctness has to stop.

Generally speaking, because of the basic good nature of white people, they have turned the other cheek...but now the time has come when common sense has to prevail. We've been mandated to death by the enemy within our nation. We have invaders through legal and illegal immigration, because they can't make it in their own countries, they invade ours, wanting what we have, and willing to steal it. We have to turn back to God's Word, laws, or continue the consequences.

Exod. 34:12-16; Deut. 7:2-4
Covenants with pagan or ungodly nations leads to idolatry and adoption of pagan ways.

Exod. 23:33; Josh. 23:12-13
You shall not allow foreigners that are pagans to emigrate into or dwell in your nation; for they shall be as pricks in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in your land.

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MAKES ME WANNA HOLLER by Nathan McCall [born 1955]
[Prof Afro Am studies - Emory U] Published 1994 page 62

Following not limited to McCall’s gang, nor to McCall’s city, nor to the 1970s.
Following racist behavior downplayed [then and now] by MSM and Government.

“We all hated white people. The fellas and I never talked about specific things they'd done to us, but we instinctively knew that each of us had been through bad scenes with white folks before. So we took it out on white boys.

After we reached the ninth grade and were sent to the mostly white Woodrow Wilson High School across town, we fxcked up white boys more than we went to class. We walked through secluded areas of the building after classes on Fridays. When we came upon a white boy, somebody would light into him, then everybody else sprang and we’d do him in.

One day, we double banked a guy standing at his locker in the area where the wood shop classes were held. We walked as if we were going to pass him, then Lep hauled off and punched him in the face.
Then I popped him in the mouth. He fell back and slammed his head into the lockers. Before I could hit him again, somebody else hit him with a barrage of punches that sent him crashing to the floor. We kicked him in the face and stomped him until blood squirted everywhere. After we finished, we ran out a side door and went home.

I saw that white boy in school about a week later. Walking down the hall, Lep nudged me and pointed him out. He had his arm in a sling and bandages taped to the bridge of his nose. I snickered and told Lep, "We fxcked him up good."” … END QUOTE

McCall and his gang were not “ghetto”. They were from financially secure families.
Lived in middle class neighborhood.

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Following not limited to McCall’s gang, nor to McCall’s city, nor to the 1970s.
Following racist behavior downplayed [then and now] by MSM and Government.

MAKES ME WANNA HOLLER by Nathan McCall [born 1955]
[Prof Afro Am studies - Emory U] Published 1994 page 4

“…. After my older brother Dwight got his driver's license, a group of us would pile into my stepfather's car some evenings and cruise through a nearby white neighborhood, searching for people walking the streets. We'd spot some whites, get out, rush over, and, using sticks and fists, try to beat them to within an inch of their lives. ….. End Quote

http://www.amazon.com/Makes-Me-Wanna-Holler-America/dp/0679740708
http://www.nathanmccall.net/

Must read for anyone interested in how USA got into its present precarious race relations condition.
SOUL ON ICE by [the late] Eldridge Cleaver also sheds light on how current American racial relations came to be. Cleaver explained why raping White women was a good freedom fighter activity. “Payback” for slavery etc etc etc …

[Fire Alarm Panel]

Great points. You've put a great deal of thought into your arguement. Well done! I'll look out for more in the future.

[Fire Training Structures]

Well done, this is absolutely true must followed by many.