<p>All 40 Black studets at St Paul's School received individual letters with racist conotations and their yearbook picture enclosed</p>
<p>Blacks</a> threatened at N.H. school - The Boston Globe</p>
<p>ehmygod, thats so low
did they ever find out who did it, and like, expel them?</p>
<p>The article was just in the paper today, but it seems it happened last week.
It sounds like the school is handling it well and the students are being supported.</p>
<p>Not to sound cliche but "Why can't we all just get along"?</p>
<p>yeah, its tough hearing about these things, i dont think your sounding cliche at all. Yeah segregation is a thing of the past, but when you hear horrible things such as this, it makes you think twice, and realize that the "past" was only 50[give or take a few] years ago.</p>
<p>Hockeykid841 started a thread on this last week. Here's a link to it:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-admissions/464179-hate-mail.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-admissions/464179-hate-mail.html</a></p>
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I really don't think 40 black students out for a school of 550 students (7%) is really low considering the United States is ~10% black, it's not far off from fairly representing the demographics of the US.</p>
<p>I'm friends with someone who is black at SPS and I g2g talk to them right now lol</p>
<p>so if "only 40" people were killed in a fire, where 550 were, it wouldnt be low?</p>
<p>I talked to my friend and she said the letter was really weird because it had a bulls eye in the middle and said, "Get out... BANG BANG." She also said they've had a lot of meetings and there are a lot of police and detectives on campus.</p>
<p>oh god. what a great event to have to face in boarding school..not?
i hope the school is handling it the best way possible.</p>
<p>I am an african american applicant to Saint Paul's.
Althought this event shocks me, SPS is still and probably will remain my number one choice. The way I see it raceisim is goung to exzist, wherever there are people, I'm not going to bame it all on caucasians, because we do it too. (btw, is it offensive to say "white people?") what really matters is that the school is taking it seriously, and that this type of stuff is not being tolerated.</p>
<p>It's not a joke to them, and that's what matters. </p>
<p>p.s. We are 12% of the population (that extra 2% counts!).</p>
<p>Jonathan...I think by "low" she meant that it was an offensive and uncivilized thing to do.</p>
<p>You know, it's not necessarily "racist". Remember, in the Exeter occurence earlier this year, one of the victims was the perpetrator. Could be someone's (extremely misguided) idea of a joke.</p>
<p>good point keylyme.
Buy the school's response, weather the victims and the perpertrator are one in the same, the school's serious (sirius) response matters a lot.</p>