Never let the intolerant win.
RIP Jocelynn. The Hispanics should move out of Texas and watch the shithole collapse.
The MAGAts are sub-human shit.
Unfortunately, Texas does a great job of brainwashing a lot of people with Texan pride. Most of them are probably of the "Texas is the best" mindset.
The shitty MAGAts and their elected officials should be thrown out of TX. A lot of Mexican-Americans around there have been in the state for generations, some families live across each other on either side of the border. I get the sentiment, but it’s these racist assholes that need to be driven out.
God damn , I hope these good Christians will burn in hell.
They're celebrating. This is what they want. They want all Hispanic people gone. They never cared about immigration or legal status, they hate Hispanics and they want them all gone, and children are the Hispanics they hate the most. I don't know if you've ever really listened to their rhetoric, but ''I drove by a school and all the kids were Mexicans'' is a BIG taking point on the right and has been for decades. They want out kids gone by any means.
I never understood them. The American Southwest always had a very large hispanic population... I mean they were there before settlers from the US came along, even racist cartoons from the 1890s and 1900s showed hispanic looking people as being part of the culture there.
Unfortunately they won't because it undeniably doesn't exist and they know it too
I'm athiest but deep down hope there is a hell. Just to see all those "christians" down there.
I grew up illegal in the US. I was brought on a travel visa at the age of 5 and it wasn't until my mid 20s that I became a citizen.
I vividly remember being in elementary school, around her age, in music class where we were learning the national anthem. The entire class would stand up and we should sing "I'm proud to be an American" and I remember silently crying as I stood up and sang the song.
I cried because I understood even at that age that I was not an American. I was part of everything while simultaneously always being detached from everything. Never fitting in, but pretending to. I think long-term it created a strange sense of detachment from society. This shit fucks you up and it's heavy stuff for a child to process. It wasn't until my adulthood that I really started to understand and internalize a positive narrative from my upbringing. An 11 year old child does not have the capacity to process this.
And I'm in my 30s now- I grew up illegal before social media and before this xenophobic outburst started circa 2016. I'd imagine it's so much worse today.
I feel for this little girl. I feel for all the children in the country who's only crime was existing. Obama, while famously being the deporter-in-chief (both Obama terms aw more deported than Trump's first term), at least did offer DACA as an executive order for these children.
Really, I think you can tell the state of a society by how they treat the vulnerable. And the US is getting increasingly brutal and cruel. We're in for a wild fascist ride, comrades. It's only just begun.
Never fitting in, but pretending to
Not trying to deny your experience or anything like that, but a lot of people feel that way, especially around that age, are you sure it was because of your lack of citizenship? I know I have always felt like that, and I was born in Boston, Mayflower descendant too...
Not the point, I know.
you're correct it's not a unique experience to feel isolated from the rest of your peers. i feel like it's an experience that might actually be increasing. i think social media ironically adds to this in the youth. many biracial people also experience something like this (ie, too white for the blacks, too black for the whites)
when i got here initially i moved to a place where nobody spoke my native language. so when i went to school, i would get put in a class all by myself with a nice lady who would hold flash cards with pictures on them. she would show me a card, it would say something like "cat" or "ball" and then she would repeat them over and over.
so the first year or so of primary school I was alone in a room because I didn't speak english yet. really what eventually taught me english was cable TV
another element in the experience is being afraid of authority. the police were dangerous because at any moment if they caught us the family could get separated and we could get deported. one time my parents were cleaning an office late at night (they worked in cleaning when they first arrived in US) and they brought me with.
i didn't understand what a fire alarm was so i pulled it. my parents, scared that the authorities would arrive and see a young child, took me and put me in the backseat of the car where people's feet usually go and they put a blanket on me. they told me to be very quiet and not make a sound otherwise we could all be deported. so i hid in that car for an hour or so until the emergency services left
i share these things not to say i had a hard life or anything like that. I think I had a good upbringing. and I understand many Americans have had much worse experiences and also feel alienated as well.
But I share these things just because the story in the OP touched me because I was that 11 year old child once. It's a life and a set of experiences a lot of Americans don't really think about very much. Or at least historically has been more or less ignored.
Nowadays illegals have attention but unfortunately an overwhelmingly peaceful people become "rapists and murderers". if you look up statistics, illegals are 2-4x less likely to commit crime than native born americans (if you get any charge at all, you can get deported.. even if you get acquitted or the charges dropped!). so naturally they tend to be more careful breaking laws
You are an American.
Thank you. I feel like one these days. Especially after the naturalization ceremony. This is a country of immigrants and I'm part of it. I'm not ashamed of it anymore. I was when I was younger.
"It [the bullying] had gotten so aggressive, Carranza was meeting with a school counselor multiple times a week. Her family, however, was never notified."
What the literal fuck. The bullies said the bullying wouldn't ease up until her family got deported. She was meeting with the school counselor several times a week and the school didn't separate the bullies out? They didn't notify the parents? I hope people are held personally liable. Your beloved little girl taking her own life is an unimaginable tragedy.
The president is setting such a shameful example.
That’s what hit me the hardest too. This was completely preventable. The lack of response by the school is even more to blame than the bullies. The knot in my stomach wants to deck that school counselor.
I agree that the adults here are the most responsible, but I hope those kids understand the gravity of what they've done.
They may not at 11 years old, but this is the sort of thing that sticks with you. We can only hope this teaches them empathy rather than fueling more of this sociopathic behavior they’re likely emulating from their parents.
I hope that the family of Jocelyn files numerous wrongful death lawsuits. The school failed. the bullies and their parents failed.
It's probably exactly zero consolation, but damn.
Even in my time the person who reported the bullying was treated worse than the bullies, and I’ve been out of school for a while. From what I’ve heard, it’s been getting much worse.
Seriously, the only way to defend yourself against bullying is to beat the crap out of the bully. And you will get repercussions for it, but the bully will think twice next time.
Yet they pass these laws forcing teachers to rat on trans kids. Bet if this poor kid went by Carlos instead of Carranza they would have called right away!
These motherfuckers.
Nobody will be held liable. It will be spun as a horrible tragedy and the school will move on.
Is that the pro life, they've been talking about
Unfortunately, that's mission accomplished for team red, as that's one fewer brown person growing up to take yer jerbs.
This was not a suicide. The Trump regime and her classmates murdered her.
Fucked up
The US regime believes in notifying parents, irrespective of the possible harm, if their child might be gay or trans but won't bother with bullying so severe it leads to suicide. The US is fucked.
And I'm sure that MAGA scum are cheering about it.
Hey US, that's when you know fascism is taking over.
Rage. This is so incredibly tragic. I'm sitting here at 6:45 AM just crying when I should be getting ready for work. This is the type of world they're trying to build.
The bullies are modern day Hitlerjugend
"failed".
What are the chances they just ignored it, intentionally?
I'm willing to bet that's exactly what happened. Dollars to doughnuts these were MAGA bullies at a MAGA school with MAGA teachers/"leadership" and the adults either tacitly endorsed the bullying or participated in it themselves. They're probably glad that she's dead and (privately, if not publicly) laughing about it because it's one less "illegal [pejorative]" polluting their white community. I genuinely think we're at that level of near-genocidal dehumanization at this point.
The school never bothered to tell the parents their kid was being bullied.
Oh but being Texas they sure as F would've told her parents if she was expressing gender dysphoria right? Ye gods what a dumpster fire of a society.
This is utterly heartbreaking. Only 11 years old.
This is terrible. It's sad, so sad. The USA is complicit for the deaths of the Gazan kids by Netanyahu already, and now this. This is how decadent hegemonies look like.
May the bullies live to very very old age, haunted and ashamed by their crime, and always remembering with profound anguish this smiling face and these sparkling eyes that they extinguished.
haunted and ashamed by their crime
If only they had the capacity for that. :-/
they were also children, presumably echoing the narratives of their parents. it is not a foregone conclusion that they are incapable of empathy.
There's going to be so much blood on Rump roasts hands... I don't know how he can look himself in the mirror. That's okay. Karma's a bitch. The next go around won't be so easy for them, I'm sure.
Karma isn’t real, don’t count on it handling anything.
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