But it's not just in juvenile court schools where kids chant "Are You Scared?"
At one of the local high schools, a student would not stop talking with another groups of students. When I asked him to move his seat three times, he refused, calling me a "N-----er". I fired back, " I am not a slave! Don't call me that!"
Thereupon, he completely spinned what I had said, claiming that I had called him a "slave". It was complete, doublespeak nonsense, and it did not shake me up one bit. Another student began repeating the same hateful lie.
After I sent the student out for his disruptive behavior, the class still did not quiet down. A few minutes later, one security personnel arrived, demanding that three students come with her. Apparently, an administrator was going to investigate the student's overt lie about my allegedly calling him "a slave."
It was clear that security was going to select the quietest, most impartial students should could find. The same student was repeating the same lie as the student I had sent out, well she volunteered enthusiastically to go be a witness. Security did not call her out.
After the three students were escorted out, that same young lady looked me, asked:
"Are you scared?"
I told her point blank: "No!"
I had nothing to be scared of. I had spoken the truth, and I am writing the truth now. I never made any insensitive remark to a student, and have never had a need to. If anything, that young lady should have been scared, since she felt entitled to around campus like a tale-bearer gossiping the same malicious lie.
Still, it was my first time facing down a tsunami of dissent, which in effect was nothing but a weak trickle. And I was not scared.
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