San Ramon学区会议华人群众声援受害学生
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最新更新(6/24):学生家长决定把迫害学生的学校相关人员告上法庭。 发出了 Go fundme open letter. 关心此事的朋友请点击查看信件内容,并给予支持
这件事是一个警惕。文革式的因言获罪离我们不远,公立学校老师和校长粗暴对待亚裔学生就在身边。yu家愿意抗争,于普通人于华人都能受益,值得大家出手支持。受害者家庭冒着巨大风险和压力坚决要抗争到底,难能可贵!
快讯: 今晚在San Ramon 学区听证会上发声目的达到了。Board Members 中有人明确表示赞同我们。也有委员说上次的发言人根本没有看过录像。有的人想毁掉学生的前途。学校处理不当(学生第一时间撤销录像,就应该 move on )。不过这些都是各个委员口头意见。学区整体没有承诺具体动作。还需要继续跟踪。
令人感到意外的是,对方大部分缺席,只派了一个人递交上千签名的请愿书,他发言要求请伊斯兰组织进入学校”教育“学生反Islamphobia。
今天Board Members大部分表现同情男生, 反对网上bully运动,除华人发言外还有三名白人发言,立场也在我们一边。虽然看着不错,这只是第一步。
另外附上硅谷华人协会会长 陆滢女士的发言文字版。最后给出网友 Wennan, 百合 整理的中文事件描述。
现场还有 天使,龙哥, Liao, Wade 等发言。 不少群众也不辞辛苦,赶来助阵。十分感谢!
My name is Crystal Lu and I'm President of the Silicon Valley Chinese Association Foundation, a nonprofit with a large presence in the Tri-Valley Area.
I am here to talk about the boy who made the video in question. The boy's mom was from the Philippines and the dad is Chinese. They are a working class family, not a rich family as described by some people. The boy would be the first ASIAN American to win the Student Body Presidency at SRVHS.
The video was put on Youtube on a Monday night. As soon as the boy heard some mild concern from one fellow student, he had it taken down immediately early next morning. Therefore, it only received 30 views. No media has seen it. The vast majority of the social media commentators never saw it. Unfortunately, many media outlets jumped to the conclusion of racial discrimination based on some Facebook hear-say. Their harsh tone further fueled the anger within our community onto this boy and his family.
I want to point out that two people played a key role in publicly prosecuting this boy. One is the Leadership teacher who appointed the candidate who lost in the election to be the winner, while the boy was still under interrogation. The other is the parent who started the smear campaign. It happens that the teacher and this parent are good friends. Coincidentally, these two people are close friends with the parent of the girl who was appointed as the winner but actually lost to the boy by a large margin. All three people are leaders of the same major religious organization in our community.
To get to the bottom of the story, we reached out to the family's lawyer. A handful of us had the opportunity to view the actual video. It was pretty evident that the video was a parody featuring a James Bond-like character rescuing a game guru kidnapped by two bad guys who want to force the hostage to play in a gaming tournament on their behalf.
The boy's fellow students elected him by a landslide, for his academic excellence, his remarkable leadership and his love for helping poor kids and disabled kids through his civic activities.
This is a boy who was a recipient of the "Student of the Year" award. His love for his community and disabled children around the world has been noteworthy. He chaired a global project at school rallying 1000+ fellow students and raising $3,500 dollars - enough to send 21 wheelchairs to Guatemala & Costa Rica.This is a kid that always believed in his heart that service to humanity is the best work in life. Unfortunately, since the beginning of the opinion war, neither he nor his two younger siblings who had nothing to do with this video were able to go back to school. We ask you to stand with us against bullying from the school system who handled the incident most inappropriately and unprofessionally.
Wennan,百合等义工整理的事件描述:
为积极参与学校一年一度的学生会的选举活动,一位决定竞选学生会主席的亚裔男孩优秀学生与他的四位支持者同学们搭档,合作制作了一个竞选创意视频。创意视频的内容本身无伤大雅,且视频从头天夜里上传到网上到第二天早上撤下,前后一共只有12个小时左右,且总共只有约30人次点击过该视频,这其中还包括五个孩子们自己的测试点击数。也就是说该视频对外界的影响极其有限,可以说几乎为零!
然而,令人震惊的是立即应邀参与搅动此事件的英文媒体居然没有一家观看和认真了解过该视频,却全部自动选择了偏听偏信一两个别有用心的成年人的一面之词,就旋即开始了歪曲该视频的工作,来帮助此事件的始作俑者们达到抹黑男孩子们的目的,并立即开始铺天盖地无中生有地公开诬指孩子们宣扬种族和宗教歧视。这些媒体的上述行为完全偏离了媒体应谨守的职业操守,实在是令任何一个稍微有一点点公道心的人都倍感失望和愤怒。
事后,在男孩子律师的首肯下,几位关心此事件的本地家长们一同仔细观看了该视频,得到的共识是:从该视频中根本无法得出参与了抹黑的媒体所歪曲渲染的所谓的该视频牵涉ISIS、宗教、种族、等任何其它的无中生有的指控。视频的内容就是两个男孩扮演的反面角色绑架了一个电子游戏专家,并让他替反面角色去参加电子游戏比赛,然后一个男孩子扮演的英雄人物007出手相救成功,最后就是孩子们一起请学校的同学们投票选扮演的007的男孩子做学生会主席。五个孩子们携手创作的视频的初衷与创意就这么简单、单纯和善良。
其实,稍微有点判断力的旁观者立即就会明白,这分明是该学校参加学生会主席竞选失败的女生的妈妈及其闺蜜,拒绝面对自己的孩子在学校学生中的民主选举中的失败,恼羞成怒于她们精心算计的失算,于是霸道地裹挟学校个别利益相关的老师,施用成人社会的手段一起罗织莫须有的罪名来诋毁、霸凌、甚至违规隔离审讯亚裔学生,然后在学校的调查还在进行之中就违背民主程序取消男孩学生会主席的资格并宣布败选的女生获胜,更进一步在校园里和其他不明真相的群体中制造和煽动无中生有的恐慌气氛,以达到迫使当选为学生会主席的华裔男孩子放弃民主选举的结果的目的。
另外值得一提的是,这位当选学生会主席的男孩子的妈妈是菲律宾裔,爸爸是华裔,都是普通平凡的工薪阶层。为了保护家里所有的孩子们、给孩子恢复名誉和确保孩子们在学校有健康安全的接受教育的环境,这两位同为少数族裔的亚裔父母开始砸锅卖铁打官司。令人非常难过的是,男孩子的母亲也很可能因此丢掉工作。