Ms. Rogers, you are in need of a wake-up call. The fact that you consider six men beating a single man unconscious “a racially charged fight” is frightening. That’s a fight? Really? I’d hate to be in a fight with you. Under those parameters, who knows how extreme the beating would have to be for you to consider it anything more than assault. I also seriously doubt you would be writing in the defense of these six men who are receiving such “unfair treatment” if they were white men.
Sadly, it is actually you who is disrespecting the entire black student population at Poly. I certainly don’t look at any of my African-American peers and think that they are “thugs, punks, criminals or goons.” It seems that you might, though, since you are writing in and perpetuating this so-called stereotype against black men.
When Ms. Gilmore used these terms, she was using them to describe six men who did act like “thugs, punks, criminals, and goons.” Since one of them does have a very serious and extensive criminal record, I guess that behavior was nothing new for him. Obviously you are already well-versed in what is “in accordance with the law.” That being the case, I sincerely hope that you don’t mean to imply that a previously violent criminal record held by any man does not matter.