Real Life PC Principal: Police Interrogate Third Grader Accused of Racism for Brownie Comment at School Party

South Park got it right again this year with the ‘PC Principal’ series of episodes lampooning the total control of thought and behavior by the totalitarian left in academia.

South Park PC Principal

A real life example of ‘PC Principal’ played out recently at an elementary school in the southern New Jersey borough of Collingswood in Camden County where police were called to investigate a third grader accused of racism for a comment he made about the brownies being served at a school party.

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A sample of the offensively named dessert item in question.

Philly.com reported:

On June 16, police were called to an unlikely scene: an end-of-the-year class party at the William P. Tatem Elementary School in Collingswood.

A third grader had made a comment about the brownies being served to the class. After another student exclaimed that the remark was “racist,” the school called the Collingswood Police Department, according to the mother of the boy who made the comment.

The police officer spoke to the student, who is 9, said the boy’s mother, Stacy dos Santos, and local authorities.

Dos Santos said that the school overreacted and that her son made a comment about snacks, not skin color.

“He said they were talking about brownies. . . . Who exactly did he offend?” dos Santos said.

The boy’s father was contacted by Collingswood police later in the day. Police said the incident had been referred to the New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency. The student stayed home for his last day of third grade.

Dos Santos said that her son was “traumatized,” and that she hopes to send him to a different Collingswood public school in the fall.

And she wants an apology. She said she graduated from Collingswood High School and has two other children, a 21-year-old who also went through Collingswood schools, and a 3-year-old. Her husband, the third grader’s father, is Brazilian, dos Santos said.

“I’m not comfortable with the administration [at Tatem]. I don’t trust them and neither does my child,” she said. “He was intimidated, obviously. There was a police officer with a gun in the holster talking to my son, saying, ‘Tell me what you said.’ He didn’t have anybody on his side.”

The whole sordid tale can be read at Philly.com.

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