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[KHOU.com] Lamar Student Beaten because she couldn't speak Spanish

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  1. SwoLy-D

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    I feel sad. :(
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    Two teenage girls who attend Lamar High School were charged with assault after the brutal attack on campus.

    Audrina Garza says she was pummeled on the field during P.E. class because she couldn't speak Spanish.

    The 15-year-old sophmore said the Hispanic girls attacked her even though she's also Hispanic.

    "I told them that I wasn't going to do anything, that I dont' know them and I wasnt' going to do anything," said Garza. "I told them you're in America."

    "And they said, 'Well you're a Mexican and you should know' and that's when the girl punched me," said Garza.

    She ended up in an emergency room. Doctors ordered X-rays and tests for internal bleeding. She was treated and released but the shock hasn't gone away.

    "You never hear 'I got beat up because I didn't speak Spanish,'" said Yisa Ortiz, the girl's mother.

    The irony here is that Garza was a victim of brown on brown crime, her grandfather said. He recalls childhood troubles because of the language he spoke.

    "I had to fight white boys because they didn't want me to speak Spanish when I wasn't even talking to them," said Andres Ortiz.

    Garza said she did not see her teacher when the fight started, but it was caught on tape by Lamar's security cameras.

    For now, Garza's concentrating on healing and plans to return to Lamar High School where a disturbing lesson about race and language should never have been taught on a football field.

    The 15 and 16-year-old girls charged with assault in this case have been referred to an alternative school.

    http://www.khou.com/news/local/stories/khou061104_mh_girlbeaten.4cb9f9f.html - with video
     
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    Not suprised at all. Alot of the public high schools where the population is 40 percent or more foreign born are quite unpleasant. Thanks Mexico for sending us all your delinquents.
     
  4. the futants

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    uh-oh... beware the wrath of Swoly...
     
  5. mexican

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    no problemo, pero como sabes que es asi en estas escuelas? Usted atendio un escuela como esta? si tu repuesta es no, entonces tu no sabes nada cabron :rolleyes:
     
  6. Saint Louis

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    Kind of funny that back when my mother went to Lamar, it was considered the rich, stuck up high school in Houston. My mother hated going there because she lived on the wrong (north) side of the bayou.

    Another funny fact, Lamar High School is named after Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (August 16, 1798 – December 19, 1859) who was the second president of the Republic of Texas. The mascot of Lamar High School is the Redskin which is funny because Mirabeau Lamar hated indians. Lamar was a fierce opponent of fellow Texan Sam Houston. Houston and Lamar had different views on virtually every topic relating to the development of the new Republic, from finances to dealing with Texas Native Americans (of whom he favored eradication) to the Annexation of Texas into the United States (which he opposed).
     
  7. RocketMan Tex

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    Thank you trailer park, for sending ClutchFans.net one of your favorite cousin-lovers, Aceshigh7. :rolleyes:

    Do you have an idea where Lamar High School is located and what it's ethnic makeup is, you ridiculously ignorant piece of crap?
     
  8. Saint Louis

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    This is what happens when the Internet comes to the East Texas Piney Woods.
     
  9. rhadamanthus

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    Nothing like a little bit of racism with my coffee this morning.
     
  10. MiddleMan

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    this crap made the news???
    please there is worst **** that happens in houston than a h.s. FIGHT
    the sad part is that the girl who got beat down might get beat down again after this :(
     
  11. MiddleMan

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    Not suprised at all. Alot of the public high schools where the population is 40 percent or more foreign born are quite unpleasant. Thanks Mexico for sending us all your delinquents.

    actually from coming from a high school in which it was over 85 % mexican (hispanic) the foreign born were actually quiet and laying low since they felt like they didnt fit in rarely they didnt start in promblems. The knuckleheads were your gangsters or wannabes hard a$$ who once again were american/mexican.
     
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  12. smoothie

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    where was the teacher? things like this should obviously be able to be prevented. kids are idiots, you can't leave them alone.
     
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    habla en ingles chuntaro


    in other news i was at a party with my gf this weekend. it was her friends birthday party and a ton of super mojodo guys showed up. you know the ones with the mullets and stuff. anyhow, they really reinforce negative stereotypes about mexican men and how they treat women. i couldn't understand most of what they were saying, but being the only white guy there you pretty much know they are talking about you and your girl. i heard one of them call her fresa (which she is lol) and then later she told me they were asking her why she was with a white guy and that she should stick to her kind. she also told me that one of them asked her if he could f**k her t*** while she was waiting in line for the bathroom.

    you can call me racist and i really don't care because it's true. whenever a girl comes around mexican/latin guys stare like she is a piece of meat. yeah guys do it in general but it much worse with hispanics...and if you don't know that then you don't know what you are talking about.

    i need to learn how to speak more fluent spanish and learn all the slang because that stuff makes me mad. hell if you are gonna talk **** then do it in my language.
     
  14. mexican

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    no mames

    But seriously, in high school i remember some of the straight from Mexico students talk trash about us "american born" if we didn't speak perfect spanish. Hell they don't even speak proper spanish. Anyway's it was only a few of them and you can really tell who they were, the one's that wore wrangler jeans and cowboy hats to school and drove Chevy trucks with those stupid wheels that stick out, geez, it makes me embarassed to think that people would see them and assume all hispanics are like that
     
  15. Rocketeer

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    This comment just shows your stupidity. This is going to turn into a D&D thread.
     
  16. mexican

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    very well then, i would very much like sexy time with your girlfriend, better? :)
     
  17. Dark Rhino

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    Geez...:(
     
  18. mexican

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    oh and one more thing, to all the "white guys", where do you get these stereotypes about mexicans from? i had one real smart dude at work ask me if all of "us" were planning to take over the Southwestern Region of America and turn in into Mexico, i was seriously like wtf? where do you get this crap from?
     
  19. mexican

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    you know that this word is considered extremely racist and offensive right? it's like using the N-word, just letting you know before you get your ass kicked saying it out in public
     
  20. Aceshigh7

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    Sorry if you don't like the truth. I don't either when it comes to this subject. It's quite sad. :(
     

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