Parents to Indians: Go to hell

Woman surprised at e-mail backlashCondit Elementary School parent Michelle Raheja said she was not prepared for the backlash she got from helping to write an e-mail to a kindergarten teacher at the elementary school.

She and her daughter have been harassed as a result, she said Wednesday.

"It was a private message to one kindergarten teacher," Raheja said. "She did not ask me if she could circulate it to others or circulate it to the principal. I don't think she was ill-intentioned."How did the anti-Indian parents respond to this supposedly private e-mail?At the Tuesday feast, Raheja said her 5-year-old daughter was harassed. A parent dressed up as an American Indian, Raheja said, "did a war dance around my daughter." The parent then told her daughter and others to "go to hell," she said.

Raheja, a UC Riverside instructor, said she has contacted the Claremont Police Department and the UC Riverside police because of the hateful phone calls and e-mails.

On Wednesday, she said she had received more than 250 "hateful and intimidating" e-mails.

"They go from being anxious about political correctness to calling me (an epithet). They don't know my daughter's name, but they've said hateful and disgusting things about my daughter."Comment:  For more on the parents' obvious racism, see Anti-Indian Racism Explained and Why White Men Hate Indians. For more on the Thanksgiving issues, see Playing Indian for Thanksgiving and Ten Little Pilgrims and Indians.

Below:  If there's a hell, I suspect it's reserved for people who tell little girls to "go to hell." And not for the little girls themselves.