The New Yorkerのインスタグラム(newyorkermag) - 9月14日 04時00分

Ten-year-old Izzy Tichenor told her mother that her teacher ignored her; that another student told her he had a gun and had threatened to shoot her; that the same classmate had called her sister the N-word. Her school district, in Davis County, Utah, had long struggled with racist bullying. In June, 2019, two D.O.J. lawyers travelled to Utah to investigate whether the district was violating Title IV of the Civil Rights Act. Black students told the attorneys that their white classmates routinely called them the N-word, or referred to them as “monkeys” or “apes,” and made monkey noises. White students touched and pulled Black students’ hair without permission, and told them to pick cotton. They called Black students’ skin dirty, or said that it looked like feces, asking why they didn’t wash it. Administrators knew of at least 212 documented occasions in which Black students were called the N-word in the course of just three years. The D.O.J. attorneys found that the students who used the slurs were rarely disciplined. “I think we were all, everyone on the team, shocked and pretty appalled,” an attorney on the team said. “It was really hard to hear the experiences these students had—and the general feelings of isolation, on top of that, and just having very few people to talk to and turn to. It was pretty heartbreaking.”

In November, 2021, Izzy died by suicide. Her mother, Brittany, believed that Izzy’s suicide was primarily a result of being bullied, and that she had been targeted for her race and learning disability. The district commissioned an independent investigation into Brittany’s allegations; panelists said they couldn’t find definitive evidence that Izzy’s bullying had been racially motivated. “The tragedy of Izzy’s death and the timing of what we were doing with the D.O.J. were unfortunate, in the sense that it conflated the two issues,” an assistant superintendent said. “The two pieces aren’t related other than by consequence and by timing.” At the link in our bio, James Ross Gardner reports on the circumstances surrounding Izzy’s death—and the fierce debate it has ignited. Photograph by @jannaireland for The New Yorker.

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