Posted on 04/20/2018 12:57:42 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Officials at the North East Independent School District are disciplining 18 Roosevelt High School students after a student filmed his peers saying "I hate black people" and posted the video to social media.
In the video, which circled social media at the beginning of the month, students appear using the n-word and saying they hated black people.
Aubrey Chancellor, executive director of communications at NEISD, said a black freshman student asked his peers to say "I hate black people" in the video for a social experiment. The student did not tell his peers he would be posting the video online, Chancellor said.
"The video is disgusting and inappropriate," she said.
She said a parent reached out April 5 after seeing the video and the district immediately launched an investigation into the incident.
District 2 Councilman William "Cruz" Shaw said he was in disbelief after watching the video where he "heard threats, slurs, and hate speech from children of all backgrounds."
"We have to show our students that there is zero tolerance for threats, slurs, and hate speech in our schools, our district, and our city," Shaw said.
Among the 19 students involved -- including the maker of the video -- 14 were freshmen, four was sophomores and one was a senior. One student who appeared in the video did not say anything offensive though it was edited to make it appear she had. She will not be disciplined, Chancellor said.
The remaining 18 students will be required to meet with a school counselor to talk about what happened, and the student who made the video will face "more severe consequences," Chancellor said.
Chancellor said that regardless of the students' ages, they should have known what they were doing was wrong, and the incident is "something they're going to have to live with, probably for the rest of their lives."
"Obviously everyone is extremely disappointed. The video is sickening to watch," Chancellor said. "There's no excuse for saying those kind of things, period, and that's why they're facing consequences. If there's anything good out of the situation, I think it would be the students feel terribly and say they don't actually feel that way."
But not racist.
Gee. I wonder what the key reason is why this is not racist?
“The student did not tell his peers he would be posting the video online”
Suckers!
Didn’t pick up on whether it was filmed during school hours.
If not, this is a ripe lawsuit.
The black student who staged this is a race baiting, low class person who wanted to create drama. He is the one who should at very least be suspended. The kids who allowed themselves to be filmed saying these remarks should have known that they very likely would be uploaded onto the internet. They fell into his slippery trap.
Well this news source does use the R- word (Racist)
District 2 Councilman William “Cruz” Shaw issued the following statement in response to the video:
““Today I saw a video where 18 students from Roosevelt High School spewed racist language about African Americans. I was in disbelief as I heard threats, slurs, and hate speech from children of all backgrounds.
“Our office reached out to NEISD’s communications department for clarification and we were told that they could not legally divulge what specific disciplinary actions were taken. We were also told that the student who created this video asked others to participate in this video as a ‘social experiment’ and asked students to say the most offensive comments they could think of. Because of that, the district did not determine the threat made in the video to be an ‘actual threat.’
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Must have been some whites or Hispanics. Blacks can’t be racist. Or so we’ve been told.
One of the links said this video is still up on Facebook.
FWIW.
And Democratic Senators and Congress Critters openly have ties with Farrakhan. See how this works?
I don’t think it matters if it was during school hours or not.
Schools in California monitor students Facebook and other social media postings 24/7.
If they see “inappropriate activity” even after school hours - they take immediate action.
I think the students should/would feel terrible.
“Must have been some whites or Hispanics. Blacks can’t be racist.”
I understand that Hispanics have filed a petition for exemption.
“I think the students should/would feel terrible.”
Unless they are striving to feel something and doing a damnably shoddy job of it.
So a Black kid asks a bunch of white or hispanic kids to say “I hate Black people” on video and they get in trouble for it? Isn’t art all about free speech?
"I hate Councilmen."
See how that works, asshole?
Yes, it will be on their Permanent Record. Forever.
“I think the students should/would feel terrible.”
Don’t be too hard on her...she’s only an executive director of communications for the school district! /s;)
I guess if you punish everyone involved you don’t have to admit a black kid incited the whole thing on purpose.
A social experiment, eh? If his hypothesis was "certain words and comments can cause seemingly normal adults to go in to a mindless frenzy of shouting PC buzz words, stupid catch-phrases, and genuine drivel, before engaging in an orgy of ridiculous one-size-fits-all punishments before they even know whether anyone actually did anything wrong" then I'd say: "Hypothesis Proven".
I doubt the students on that video said or did anything differently than they say or do every day in the hallways at that school.
Ask them if they feel terrible? You might was well be speaking Greek to them.
Kids will be kids.
When asked to walk out of class to protest, they do that too.
Neurotic sense of peer pressure.
Makes you wonder if any of them will be wanting to return the "favor" in, oh say, five to ten years. Sleep well, Aubrey
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