Thursday, February
22, 2018
I’m going to run away. I’m really going to do it. I
don’t care if I don’t have enough money. I’m not staying here anymore.
This week has been shit.
Tuesday morning when we got to school, we found out
that all of the little Nazi boys had had their lockers vandalized. All 18 or 20
of them. I don’t even know how many there are, though I think they’re adding
more. yay It was all stuff like
Fuck Nazis
Nazis suck cock
Nazis are LOSERS
Most of us thought it was pretty funny.
Caleb didn’t. Caleb was going around school calling it
terrorism and demanding to know who’d done it. Like anyone would tell him. No
one liked him before he had his Nazi goon squad, and everyone hates him now.
But Caleb whined to daddy. He actually went to the office before school had
even started and called him, so there was a special emergency assembly called
during first period. It turns out that Caleb’s dad isn’t just in the National
Guard but is a captain or a sergeant or something and is the Nazi in charge of
the Nazi babies.
Captain Nazi gave us a long speech about how this kind
of behavior wouldn’t be tolerated and that the people responsible should turn
themselves in to avoid horrible punishment. He also offered a reward for anyone
who would turn in the people who did it.
So there’s this guy, Evan, who’s kind of a smart ass.
He’s always saying disruptive stuff in class and making teachers mad and,
sometimes, making them look dumb. He’s super smart and he knows it. He doesn’t
care about any school stuff because he already knows it all. But he really
doesn’t try to make people feel stupid. Except for teachers when they act like
they’re right because they’re the teachers or people who are really just being
stupid. I think he likes the attention he gets from being a smart ass in class
because he’s so bored with being in school.
So Evan stood up, just stood up as soon as Captain
Nazi-pants offered a reward, and said, “I know who did it.” Everyone got real
quiet, and I’m sure whoever did do it was scared. I would have been scared. But
I also wouldn’t narc on people bashing Nazis and couldn’t believe Evan was
going to, even for a reward. Evan didn’t say anything. He just kept standing
there. Everybody was looking at him, and I think he was enjoying it.
Eventually, Nazi-pants said, “Well?”
And Evan smirked and said, “It was your momma.”
Which doesn’t sound very brilliant coming from Evan –
that’s the kind of thing a 6th grader would say – unless he was
trying to say the thing that would most piss off Nazi-pants. Or almost the
thing that would most piss him off. Because Caleb started yelling, “You take
that back! Take it back!” And Evan looked at him and said, “And your momma was
watching and sucking a big black dick while it was happening. Two of them, in
fact.”
Nazi-pants lost it. He went flying off the stage in a
rage but some other National Guard Nazi guy had Evan by the arm and was pulling
him from his seat by the time Nazi-pants got there. Caleb was right behind his
dad. Evan was freaked out and trying to get away. Caleb’s dad grabbed Evan and
punched him in the face. Just punched him in the face! Blood hit the wall and
Evan collapsed. Caleb started kicking him and no one stopped him.
Evan is just a kid. Really a kid. He’s in 8th
grade, but that’s because he skipped a couple of years of school. He might only
be 10. I don’t know.
I think everyone was too shocked by what was happening
to do anything, but the soldiers weren’t shocked; they just didn’t care.
Eventually – and it probably wasn’t really very long, but it felt like a long
time – Mr. Chambers started yelling for them to stop and headed that way, but
soldier dudes got in his way. But Mr. Chambers is a big guy and used to play
football and wrestle and stuff, coach stuff, and kept pushing his way through.
Then the soldier dudes started attacking him, and he was knocking them all down
until one of them pulled out his gun and told Mr. Chambers to freeze.
By that time, Nazi-pants was arguing with the
principal, and a few moments later, the police and an ambulance showed up. I
guess someone must have snuck out and called 911 during all of the fighting and
confusion with Mr. Chambers. Nazi-pants didn’t want to let the ambulance take
Evan away, but the police made him leave them alone. I think they may have been
trying to arrest Nazi-pants, but I don’t really know. All I know is more police
came and, when the more police got there, they made all of us clear out.
At some point, between the police getting there and
the more police getting there, the soldiers took Mr. Chambers away. He hasn’t
been back to school. Neither has Evan.
Evan, though, is in the hospital. The school did let
us know that so that any of us who want to can go visit him. I want to visit
him, but I wasn’t really friends with him, so that seems awkward to me.
Especially since he can’t talk because of the broken jaw. And broken nose. And
cracked ribs. And internal bleeding. His dad is someone kind of important, I
think, so I hope he makes bad things happen to Captain Nazi-pants.
No one knows what happened to Mr. Chambers.
No one knows what happened to Mr. Chambers.
So far, nothing has happened to Nazi-pants, at least
according to Caleb. He’s been bragging, now, about how his dad can do whatever
he wants and no one can do anything about it or stop him. And, according to
Caleb, that means he can also do anything he wants and no one can stop him,
either. It seems like the teachers believe it, because they are letting Caleb
get away with everything, even telling them what to do.
Mom is calling for dinner. More beans and rice,
probably. That’s all we’ve had to eat for a week, and I’m sick and tired of
beans and rice. But I’m also hungry. Mom is talking about getting chickens, but
dad keeps saying no. Mom says we at least need them for the eggs because it’s
been almost three weeks since we’ve had any meat, and it was two weeks before
that.
But, anyway, all of that was JUST Tuesday, but I’ll
have to talk about Wednesday later.
That Caleb kid reminds me of an interview I read with a guy who was a member of the Hitler youth back in Germany. The man was still very much in denial about the awfulness of what he participated in.
ReplyDeleteJeanne: It's not really denial. It's an inability to understand. Like someone who is blind cannot understand sight.
DeleteHave you read HHhH yet? You should.
ReplyDeleteTAS: No, this is the first I've heard of it, but I'll look into it.
DeleteI would hope the teachers and administration would fight back more than that. Perhaps it depends on where, but I'd like to think that people have more backbone, especially in this day and age.
ReplyDeleteLiz: If "this day and age" had to do with people and their behavior, "we" wouldn't have voted a white supremacist into the White House.
DeleteWow.
ReplyDeletejust: wow.
Really great.