For the past four months, an Alabama eighth grader claims a couple of his white classmates have terrorized him because of the color of his skin.
After a video of his aunt went viral on TikTok, many are taking note of the intense racial bigotry the boy experienced that prompted his mother to pull him out of the Louis Pizitz Middle School in the Birmingham suburb of Vestavia Hills, Alabama.
“My son finally broke and collapsed. He said, ‘I thought I could handle it. I thought it would stop if I stayed quiet. I cannot take it anymore,’” Mary Beth Ford said.
Pizitz Middle School is one of the top middle schools in all of Alabama. The school, with a population of about 1,200 students, ranks in the 96th percentile among US News and World Reports ranking of top education centers in the country. The school has a minority student enrollment of 19 percent.
Alabama Media Group reports the boy told his mother he had been called racial slurs by two other boys in gym…
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