Beat Up a White Kid Day refers to an incident in Cleveland, Ohio when personal animosity between two girls led to an alleged attack by 18 black and Hispanic youths aged between 8 and 15 on one of the girls, a 13 year old white girl. Of the 18, six were convicted. There were allegations that this was part of a customary 'Beat up a White Kid' day but both prosecutors and defense lawyers agreed this arose from a vendetta between the two girls.
Read more about Beat Up A White Kid Day: 2003 Case, 2003 Fall-out
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“the grave,
so humble, so willing to be beat upon
with its awful lettering and
the body lying underneath
without an umbrella.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
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When we are old as you? When we shall hear
The rain and wind beat dark December, how,
In this our pinching cave, shall we discourse
The freezing hours away?”
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“With his great white strong cold squares of teeth
And his little eyes of stone ...”
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