-Caveat Lector-
Political Correctness ... going ballistic, and fomenting racisim.
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Friday, 8 June 2001 19:03 (ET)
Kicked unconscious at school
By LOU MARANO
WASHINGTON, June 8 (UPI) -- A 13-year-old Houston, Texas boy who had
checked out a book about Robert E. Lee was kicked in the head and sent
unconscious to the hospital, a Southern heritage organization reported.
The boy's mother and lawyer believe the actions of school officials set
the stage for the attack.
A week ago, the Southern Legal Resource Center sent out the story of
Ryan Zane Oleichi to its distribution list as part of its May 30
update. Many recipients found the account so hard to believe, the SLRC
felt the need to confirm its accuracy in an electronic newsletter on
Thursday.
April 26 is Confederate Memorial Day in Texas. In his first-period
class at the Labay Middle School outside Houston, Ryan was looking at a
history book he had checked out of the school library to do an assigned
report. On its cover was a small Confederate battle flag.
The account of what followed comes from the SLRC newsletter, written by
Executive Director Neill H. Payne. It derives from Payne's
conversations with Ryan and the boy's mother, Melinda Hill. Payne's
account also draws on Kirk D. Lyons' interviews of Ryan and Hill as
well as a letter from their family doctor. Lyons, SLRC's chief trial
counsel, represents Ryan.
United Press International spoke with two senior officers from the
Harris County Sheriff's Department; both said they could not reveal the
facts of the case because the victim is a juvenile.
A call to Kelli Durham, assistant superintendent for communications at
the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District, went unanswered
Friday.
As reported in the newsletter, a black classmate asked Ryan what he was
looking at.
"What is that?" he asked.
"It's a book."
"Why do you have that flag on it?"
"It's the only one in the school library," Ryan responded.
At that point, a Hispanic student chimed in, "You racist. I'm gonna
kick your a--," followed by other invectives.
When Ryan was leaving the classroom, the first student slammed him
against the lockers and issued his own threat to harm him.
After school, the two caught Ryan outside the fence. The first beat
Ryan to the ground, and the second kicked Ryan in the head repeatedly
until he lay unconscious at their feet.
Ryan spent three days in the hospital before being released to
convalesce at home.
Labay Middle School is not in session. Dave Straughan, director of
security for the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District, is
surprised that he was not briefed on the incident. He said the event as
UPI related it to him "is a very serious situation," and that he would
go back and research the files.
"You've got my curiosity up," Straughan said.
Lyons and Payne believe that school officials stigmatized Ryan,
increasing the likelihood of the attack. On Feb. 19, Hill was called
to school by an assistant principal, who told her that her son would
start three days' suspension for wearing a small Confederate patch on
his shirt.
Although violations of the school dress code call for only one day's
suspension, the assistant principal told Hill that an example had to be
made of Ryan because "he is a racist."
Hill was concerned by this turn of events. She described her son as a
good student and not a troublemaker, but a boy who loves his Southern
heritage. He is not a racist, Hill said. In fact, "he is half
Lebanese."
Nevertheless, Ryan was suspended for three days and forced to apologize
to all the black students for being a "racist." Payne wrote that this
"set in motion the wheels of persecution that led to Ryan's beating."
Students began verbally abusing and harassing Ryan. On April 20, a girl
walked up to Ryan, slapped his face and threatened to sic her "posse" on
him.
After Ryan was hospitalized and returned to school, he received more
verbal abuse and death threats. Ryan learned that the Hispanic student
who kicked him was saying that he was "not satisfied and won't be until
Ryan is dead."
Lyons told UPI that the school did nothing when it learned of the
incident and tried to represent it as a fight instead of assault and
battery. The local district attorney has refused to file charges, Lyons
said.
Hill withdrew Ryan one week after he returned to class. She will school
him at home.
-- Copyright 2001 by United Press International. All rights reserved.
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