When I matriculated through the racially segregated public school system in my hometown of Raleigh, NC, we occasionally had normal schoolyard fights, but among our own White kids and not with weapons -- no violent crime, certainly no murders. SE Raleigh was where the Blacks lived and went to their own schools, away from Whites for the most part.
Now, in "progressive" (read: racially desegregated, ie. racially-mixed) Raleigh, I see a modern "magnet" high school has been built, supposedly to attract academically gifted White students away from their neighborhoods into the formerly Black section of SE Raleigh, in now "sanctuary" Wake County. Isn't "progress" great?
I saw this crap coming years ago in what had formally been a nice town to grow up in, and escaped to the hills of Upper East Tennessee where such racial "progress" hasn't caught up here like there... not yet, anyway.
I still receive reports like this from friends I left behind:
Raleigh teen accused in fatal high
school stabbing to be charged as adult
by: Judith Retana, Gilat Melamed
Posted: May 30, 2024
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — A now-15-year-old accused in a fatal stabbing at a Raleigh high school will be charged as an adult.
Tyquan General was 14-years-old when Raleigh police say he fatally stabbed 15-year-old Delvin Ferrell during a fight inside Southeast Raleigh High School school’s gym on Nov. 27, 2023. A second 16-year-old student was also stabbed, but survived.
Magnet school student murderer, Tyquan
1 dead, 1 injured after teens stabbed at Southeast Raleigh High School, 14-year-old suspect in custody, police say
General being charged as an adult means he faces tougher punishment if found guilty.
“Juvenile Court, by state policy, is really designed to be a rehabilitative court,” said Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman said. “It handles a lot of things very well, but when it comes to violent offenses in our state policy, and certainly the interest of our office in making sure that the public is safe, is best met by handling these cases in Superior Court.”
Court documents obtained by CBS 17 show juvenile petitions were filed against General the day after the stabbing and Dec. 5, 2023, for first degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury.
If convicted of first-degree murder, General faces up to life in prison with the potential for release after 25 years.
General was indicted on his charge of first degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury.
According to the most recent data from the North Carolina Department of Instruction,
Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School has a higher rate of reported crimes per 1,000 students than Wake County Schools as a whole. That includes 16 categories from alcohol possession, to weapons possession, to sexual assault.
“I do think, you know, unfortunately, we have certainly seen not only in Wake County, but across the state an uptick in the number of juveniles charged with homicide and it’s alarming,” District Attorney Lorrin Freeman previously told CBS 17. “It’s alarming to me, it’s alarming to my colleagues, and I think to our community at large.”
https://www.cbs17.com/news/raleigh-teen ... -as-adult/
Lorrin, you and your colleagues were not old enough to remember how safe Raleigh's schools were before the government "desgregated" them -- forcing the races together by law -- in the giant, "alarming" to you, failed social experiment. Too bad.
It's not alarming to me
