Parents of several black students at a middle school near Montgomery, Alabama are claiming that their children are subject to racial slurs and are punished more severely than their white pupils.

The parents have filed a lawsuit detailing the allegations that claims their children have been called “N-word,” “filthy trash” and “black monkey” by students at the school in Monroeville, Ala.

The AP is reporting that the lawsuit also describes an incident in which a student was being teased by white classmates who called her a “black monkey.” The student told the white teacher, who responded by saying “sit back down because you do look like a black monkey.”

The same teacher also gave another student an ‘F’ on a project to design a futuristic pair of pants. The teacher told the student that his project “looks like something a slave would wear.”

By Dominic Gwinn

        What do you get when Speed Racer, Cloud Strife of Final Fantasy 7, and a guy hauling four foot tall Super Nintendo controller all converge on the same place at the same time? Otakon 2007, a three day anime convention that attracted 50,000 people to the Baltimore Convention Center, in Baltimore’s inner harbor in late July. It featured some of the most influential names in anime, manga and Web-comics, and enough geeks in costumes to make L. R Hubbard shuffle in his grave. 
 

 It just “slipped out.”  

 The excuse given by Ralph Papitto, chairman of Roger Williams University, after dropping “nigger” during a university board meeting in April that ironically discussed how to increase the number of minority members on the board. He admitted to using the slur Monday on WPRO-AM.

 During the interview, Papitto apologized saying that it “kind of slipped out,” and added “What else can I do? Kill myself?”

  If only it were that easy.