Racial Justice, or Scapegoating in Northern Virginia?
Where were the parents in all this?
We called them “soches”. They occupied the highest social, and often economic, levels in my mid-70s high school. You know who I mean — captain of the football team, exchange students, varsity cheerleaders, and sometimes just all-around beautiful people. They ate their lunch in a special place, took AP classes, and just cruised through the school day on a level that was as high above us drudges as heaven is above hell.
Recently one such got taken down.
And, best of all, it was her own fault.
Mostly.
Readers are probably aware of the December 26 New York Times story by Dan Levin that describes what happened when a three-year-old Snapchat video made by a girl just starting to drive, and which used the “n” word, was circulated into wider social media. Heritage High School senior Jimmy Galligan, whose father is white and mother black, had received a copy of the video a year earlier. He says his complaints to school administrators about its content went nowhere. He decided to save the video.
Head varsity cheerleader, Mimi Groves, also a senior, made the video. She was fifteen at the time. More recently she had posted in support of Black Lives Matter on her Instagram page…
