Originally Posted by Matt 26z

Very difficult to say without having been there or talking to the white kids involved.

Could be something as simple as calm kids (who just so happened to be white) not wanting rowdy kids (who just so happened to be black) two feet from them.

It could also be a simple territory dispute. Think back to high school. You sit at the same lunch table every day, hang out in the same spot before school starts, etc...

I'm really inclined to think it was the blacks who originally turned this into a race issue, so the whites went along with it from there. It's actually pretty darn rare that a white will display racism based on skin color alone.