When Saily Bah, a 12-year-old Black girl from Iowa, experienced racist incidents as a fifth grader in school last February, she came home feeling hurt, her mother recalled.
“Within a span of a couple of days, there was an incident in class where kids were saying racist things — that Black people can’t do certain things and saying words like the N-word,” Saily’s mother Rohey Sallah told ABC News. “[Saily] was very disturbed and told them you shouldn’t talk like that.”
A couple days later, racist language was directed at Saily on the playground, Sallah said, promoting the then-11-year-old to open up to her parents about her experience.
“She was really upset and she was crying, asking, ‘Why do people think it’s OK to do this? Why do they think Black people are different?'” Sallah said.
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