From the Arizona Republic:

9-year old suspended for ‘hate crime’

… The boy was suspended for three days this month for allegedly committing a “hate crime” by using the expression “brown people.”

So now saying “brown people” is a “hate crime”? Then lo how my tender ears were assailed by all the diversityniks at NC State who frequently used the phrase “brown peoples” as a multicultural umbrella phrase to include blacks, Hispanics, and people from the Middle East. And during my time studying higher ed in North Carolina, I encountered the phrase innumerable times with that use. If this shift holds, then academe is suffuse with hate criminals. (They will no doubt confess themselves like Orwell’s Parsons.)

By the way, if you read the article, it sounds as if the poor kid was entrapped:

The boy maintains that he never said it; that the words were put in his mouth by the parent who questioned him. That parent happens to be the mother of the student with whom he is having a conflict—and she happens to work for Abraham Lincoln as a detention-room officer.

The tape indicates that rather than just spouting off with racial invective, the boy was asked first why he didn’t want to cooperate with brown people by the parent/school official.