We can have interpretations of his facial expression, but he definitely does not look happy.
I said up front this likely isn't an intentional racist moment but the adults in the room are there to educate kids.
If kids start calling the black kid monkey I expect an adult to step in and put a stop to it.
No, you and other's are making it into a racist moment.. Plain and simple.. There is nothing to educate them on, as it's a far stretch to sit here and try to spin it as a slam against black people because our history shows they where slaves picking cotton in the fields generations ago, rather than what it is, where kids are messing around putting "fake" hair on a student, having NOTHING to do with history or the past. And it is no where even close to calling a black kid a monkey as you are trying to compare it to (not even in the same multiverse). If that white "cotton" (filling from stuffed animals that you can bet your ass isn't even cotton at all, but most likely polyester) was pink or some other color other than white, and/or it wasn't placed on a black kids head, you wouldn't be here trying to make a non racial moment into a racial moment, and you sure as hell wouldn't be trying to tie it into the same multiverse as calling him a monkey. You would be thinking clowns because of the colors.. but no.. it's white, possibly cotton, on a black kids head, so it can't be done cuz it can be considered racism. Hell everything can be twisted into racism with that logic.
YOU are the product of what I said in my previous post.. It's time You un-condition yourself from looking at every action from a racial prospective looking for anything to claim racism. And don't say you aren't, because you wouldn't have posted this here for us to discuss if you did not think it was racism, you would have seen it for what it was, kids having fun horsing around.. And no, that kid is not humiliated.. Don't get me wrong, we have a serious issue with racism in this country... What these kids are doing isn't one of them. What you are doing, what the article is doing, is actually the racist action. It's taking an innocent action and trying to bring color of the skin into it to turn it into a racial moment when non exists..
Maybe we need to ban kids from being allowed to use cotton or anything resembling cotton. Or better yet, lets ban cotton and cotton balls all together (maybe anything white also) because kids are not being taught how to properly use them when they are having fun, horsing around, being kids and using their imaginations because you know, it may be taken as a racial act by the racist adults looking for ways to claim racism because it's white and possible cotton.
I am curious, since you brought this here to argue about racism, because it's trying to be spun into blacks picking cotton in correlation to when blacks where slaves forced to work in the cotton fields, even though it has NOTHING to do with that; do you consider it racism for any black person to work for a cotton company, picking cotton (driving/running the machinery that harvests it) doing honest work, making an honest wage, racism? you know, cuz when their ancestors where slave's and made to pick cotton in the cotton fields.. Do you consider that racism? Because you know a black person is picking cotton.. Should all blacks be banned from working for cotton companies because of their ancestors? (I know, kind of a stupid and radicicolous right... just as this is about these kids)
In all seriousness, how about we actually start going after the real racial acts rather than the made up ones.