Two white Florida teenagers utilized the N-word in a racist Snapchat video in which one of them wore a white hood, yet a school executive excused the clasp as “a joke,” as indicated by local reports.
The viral video was recorded in the summer; however it recently been shared and got viral among black students at Yulee High School, WJXT-TV revealed.
“The video was not intended to be shared outside of a small group of companions and it was not targeted to any specific student(s),” Nassau County, Fla. Aide School Superintendent Mark Durham said in an assertion last week.
“The two students in the video say they implied it as a joke among friends and didn’t expect for anybody outside of their friend group to see it.”
The Snapchat video shows two white understudies passing racist remarks with one of them wearing a white hood in the video.
The video was subsequently sent to a few black students, who went up against the white teens and got into “a physical altercation,” the outlet said.
School authorities suspended the understudy who sent the video to the black student then, at that point, likewise suspended the black students for five days for tussling with the video’s makers.
“While schools do have jurisdiction to train understudies for their online, off-campus conduct in specific situations, this case didn’t meet the criteria,” Durham said.
“While school and district find this sort of a joke pitiless and loathsome and would teach the understudies if lawfully permissible, the conditions of this case simply don’t permit it,” he added. “However, the student who sent the video to several, specific students does meet the criteria necessary to punish a student….”
However, the occurrence has created a ruckus at the school and among guardians.
Last week, a few football players at the school threatened a walkout of a home game — just to be told they would be forever kicked off the group if they did.
At an education committee meeting Thursday, multiple guardians communicated their shock over the suspensions — and the kid-gloves treatment of the white understudies.
“There is a false idea that racism is limited to name-calling and physical violence, but it’s so much more than that,” district mother Christina Guerrier told the news. “The underlying reaction from school organization showed us that undercover racist at the center of attention.”
Senior class president Collin Sewel told the board, “this district and our nation will see no change if we continue to choose not to see the obvious issue at hand.”
Reform, change, and equality will not come without your help,” Sewel added.
