Crown Heights, Students Victims Of Race Hate

A pair of boys from Oklahoma who moved to Crown Heights, Brooklyn to experience diversity, instead say they got schooled in racism and violence. They were beaten mercilessly, called "cracker" and "white boy," and chased into traffic by classmates, the family said.

When their mom tried to alert Principal Marge Baker to the abuse, "the principal refused to take the calls." She then filed several police reports at the 71st Precinct stationhouse about the alleged abuse, but said she was ignored.
Eventually, the fedup mom went to nearby Elijah Stroud Middle School to transfer her sons there, but said the principal told her: "They'll have the same problem here."
The Browns said their ethnically and racially diverse neighbors in Prospect Heights have embraced them, and they thought New York was "the greatest place on Earth" - until they started battling the school system.