Racial violence changes student — and school - U.S. news - msnbc.com: "Duong Ly speaks dispassionately, expressing no racial animosity, when asked to explain how fellow students could commit such vicious attacks.
'Because they live in a violent environment,' he suggests. 'Maybe their parents have problems and troubles, so they want to express their anger by violence.'
His father also declines to condemn the attackers. 'In Vietnam,' he says, 'the original Vietnamese people don't like us because we are a different ethnicity. People from the countryside who move to the city get discrimination from city people. It's the same here. They don't have an understanding about who we are. Discrimination happens in every society.'"
"If you're that angry and frustrated about something that your behavior manifests itself that way, what are we not addressing as a school, as a community?" asks Hackney. "As African-Americans, we can't forget our own struggle to the point that we become what we fought so hard against."
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