'You think you're white because you ride with that White boy': Bullied black Alabama girl, 9, Commits Suicide after classmates Taunted her for having a White Friend and told her to 'kill yourself'
A nine-year-old girl has committed suicide after being bullied by her fourth-grade classmates.
McKenzie Adams was found by her grandmother in her Linden, Alabama, home after she hanged herself, the
Tuscaloosa News reported. Family members say she had been harassed since the beginning of the school year.
McKenzie's mother, Jasmine Adams, told
CBS 42 that much of the bullying came from her friendship with a white boy and how his family would drive her to school.
'She told me that this one particular child was writing her nasty notes in class,' McKenzie's mother said. 'It was just things you wouldn't think a nine-year-old should know.'
'Part of it could have been because she rode to school with a white family,' she continued. 'And a lot of it was race, some of the student bullies would say to her 'why you riding with white people you're black, you're ugly. You should just die'. '
McKenzie's aunt, Eddwina Harris, also told the Tuscaloosa News about the racially-motivated taunting.
'She was being bullied the entire school year, with words such as 'kill yourself,' 'you think you're white because you ride with that white boy,' 'you ugly,' 'black b-tch,' 'just die',' she echoed.
The grieving family felt the school system failed her daughter.
Harris described her niece as a girl who loved the beach, the zoo and wanted to be a scientist some day. She intends to use her platform as a a media personality in Atlanta to speak out for other bullied children.
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