In the United Kingdom, police in South Wales are investigating an alleged incident of school-based, racially motivated harassment which resulted in a young Black boy getting his finger amputated last week.
After news about the incident went viral, the school closed for health reasons, and international outrage, including some from celebrities, poured in to show support for the 11-year-old as his mother says she is struggling with explaining racism to her child.
On Tuesday, May 17, Raheem Bailey was allegedly assaulted by students on the campus of the secondary school in South Wales, the Abertillery Learning Community. The allegation was lodged by his mother, Shantal Bailey, who took to social media to detail how he fled the “bullies,” but injured himself while trying to climb over a gate.
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During his escape from the juvenile mob, he snagged his right-hand ring finger.
In an interview with Sky News about what happened to her son, she said, “While he was climbing over, he had a ring on, and his ring attached to the fence and it ripped but also broke his finger. Basically, he was running away because he was so tired of being picked on every day.”
Bailey posted the information on her Facebook, saying this was not the first time the child felt unsafe and shared he started experiencing “racial and physical abuse, as well as more generic bullying about his height among other things” in September 2021.
She wrote, “Raheem called me in tears whilst I was at work, saying that he’s being bullied and that the teacher threatened him with detention despite him being the one that’s getting picked on. After work, I attended the school and informed them that all this needed to stop. I was then reassured that everything would be handled by the Tuesday morning.”
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