Thursday, December 31, 2009   The South Carolina Lawyers Weekly
(Hat tip: Eugene Volokh) reports that two Black students sued
the Williamsburg County School District over racial harassment
they claim they received from other Black students. The school
district offered and the students accepted a $150,000
settlement: Both students were African-American, and so was most
of the elementary school's student body, according to Kobrovsky
[the student's lawyer]. Most students were also black at the
high school that her uncle attended. The problem was the culture
of rural Williamsburg County, he said. The uncle testified that
racial separation in the county generally meant white students
attended private schools while black students attended public
schools. At the public schools, he said, fitting in meant not
being what his family was: "churchy," "upright" and wanting
education, as another witness put it, according to a trial
transcript. Harassment, he testified, made him feel that "we are
just dumb, we're just not pe