A child was blamed for the Oklahoma City bombing at age twelve

Evidence

This was not the first time this happened to her. When she was in the seventh grade, a parent approached her about the Oklahoma City bombing. The interaction happened at a Halloween party, and Aziza recalled fondly how she was dressed up like an Indian princess for the party. It was not the outfit she wore that made this party memorable, though; she remembers it vividly because she was accused of being responsible for a horrific terrorist attack. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 309

Categorization

• CANDY: The contrast — Indian princess costume at a Halloween party, accused of a terrorist bombing — is a small, striking vignette of misplaced blame.
• XREF: Note the jarring fact that Oklahoma City (a white Christian attacker) still got blamed on a brown child — powerful evidence that racialization precedes and survives any actual attacker’s identity.