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Cruz was not a minority, "statistically" or otherwise.
Nor is the policy you refer to specific to "minority students", but applies to all students.
Cruz is Hispanic according to the Miami Herald. And yes it applies to all students but it was proposed by Jesse Jackson and NAACP worked to bring it about. He blamed Trayvon's suspension from school as leading to his death. Also Holder wanted to stop the school pipeline to prison phenomena by implementing these policies.
"Jackson also said Martin's case illustrated the high number of black students who are suspended from school. A report issued by the U.S. Department of Education last month found that black students are more than three times as likely as their white peers to be suspended or expelled. Martin had been suspended from school for having a baggie that contained marijuana residue shortly before he was killed.
"We must stop suspending our children," Jackson said, asking the crowd to repeat: "Invest in them. Educate them."
Trayvon Martin Rally in Miami Draws Thousands
Is the Miami Herald the authority on who is or is not hispanic?
Nikolas Cruz was adopted by the Cruz family at birth. His adoptive father may have been hispanic, but he was not.
My aunt adopted two Chinese girls at birth - does their adoption make them Eastern-european semitic?
Not true. He was Latino, his teachers said he was *uncomfortable* with his latino heritage..most likely because his adoptive parents were white. Or trashy. The state loves to place crazy kids with pedophiles, who knows what the issue was.
But he was born a Latino...
I know it fuels your hatred to believe that he was hispanic.
But that doesn't make it any less of a lie.
"Alicia Blonde, a teacher at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, remembered school shooter Nikolas Cruz as someone who had a "pride issue" with his Hispanic background and "didn't feel comfortable in his own skin, in his culture."
"Blonde lamented that Cruz "didn't really like to speak Spanish too much."
"I remember him being a very quiet student," the teacher told MSNBC's Ali Velshi. "He has a Hispanic background. I remember that he didn't really like to speak Spanish too much. I think there was some pride issue there. He didn't feel comfortable in his own skin, in his own culture."
Teacher: FL School Shooter Had A Hispanic "Pride" Issue, "Didn't Like To Speak Spanish"