Around Tuesday, Feb. 7, a “Black History Month” video of white teen girls hanging out was posted online and is currently viral.
The 45-second clip did not celebrate the accomplishments of Black people but mocked the community with the depiction of one girl spraying the face of another with black spray paint and reminding the world of slavery’s ugly past. The fallout led one Philadelphia school attended by two of the girls to cancel in-person classes this week.
“It’s February,” a brown-haired girl with the aerosol can screeches. She grabs her giggling friend by her hair, sprays the black paint on her face, and says, “you’re nothing but a slave.”
The painted girl, sitting on the bed, starts to cough between her laughter. In a thick Philadelphia accent, the girl says, “Now, after this, you’re doing my laundry.”
The one girl recording mentions how someone’s mother is “never letting anyone in,” right before the white girl whose face is blackened says, “I’m Black, and I am proud.”
Now some of the girls are facing discipline as their racist joke is shared across social media.
Two Philadelphia schools have spoken out since the disturbing cellphone video, CNN reports.
According to the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, two of the individuals in the video attend St Hubert Catholic High School for Girls and are no longer in class, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
“We recognize and understand that the actions of these students have reopened societal wounds in a deeply painful way. Those allegedly responsible are not present in school and are being disciplined appropriately,” the archdiocese stated in a formal statement.
The bubbling sounds of laughter suggest there are more than the three girls on camera in the room.
Catholic school administrators from the school and the Office of Catholic Education have started investigating the…
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