Do you know what the craziest thing about this is to me?
The school board had to “update” its policies to ensure that this didn’t happen again. That tells me the policies in place were so weak on racism that a school thought it was ok to have a SLAVE AUCTION in 2022.
How sick is this?
Remember things like this when white people are trying to erase this country’s racist history. The country is still as racist as it has ever been. Just because they aren’t using whips and chains doesn’t mean black people are FREE.
A parent has condemned a North Carolina school after her son and his fellow black students were “sold” at a mock “slave auction” by their white classmates, according to reports.
Ashley Palmer complained on Facebook about the shocking incident at the K-8 J.S. Waters School in Goldston, near Raleigh, which has 195 students, 68 percent of whom are white, the News & Observer reported.
“Our son experienced a slave auction by his classmates and when he opened up we were made aware that this type of stuff seems to be the norm so much that he didn’t think it was worth sharing,” Palmer, who is white, wrote on March 4.
“His friend ‘went for $350’ and another student was the Slavemaster because he ‘knew how to handle them,’” she wrote. “We even have a video of students harmonizing the N word. Since when were children so blatantly racist? Why is this culture acceptable?”
Palmer added: “Parents teach your kids that this behavior isn’t OK Teach them also that SILENCE IS COMPLICITY! Laughter is even worse!”
The school superintendent, who is black, offered an apology, but it wasn’t enough. The white students were only given a one-day suspension which is like suspending Kanye from IG for 24 hours. What was that supposed to do to teach them any lesson?
Remember, you aren’t born a racist, that has to be taught in the home by the parents, so maybe this school district needs to dig a little deeper.
Flip the page for the outraged parents speaking about the incident.