McKenzie Adams wanted to be a scientist when she grew up. The 9-year-old excelled in math.the child’s family is preparing to bury her on Saturday after she hung herself. Her body was discovered at their home in Linden, Ala., on Dec. 3 by her grandmother, family members told the Tuscaloosa News.
Now, they are blaming bullying for the death, saying the black fourth-grader had told teachers and an assistant principal at U.S. Jones Elementary School that she was being harassed. Her mother, Jasmine Adams, told a CBS affiliate that the abuse appeared to have been racially motivated, directed against her daughter because she was driven to school by a white family and had developed a friendship with a white boy.https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...=.048a4f0aa75bShe was also told, “you think you’re white because you ride with that white boy,” Harris said, and called “ugly” and other unprintable epithets.
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