A second racist video surfaced online weeks after families in a predominantly white town in Colorado demanded a local school district do more to curtail and penalize students captured on footage wishing death on Black people.
Local civil rights organizations are now calling for the creators of the videos and their guardians to step up, apologize, and volunteer in their offices, doing racial equity work.
Speaking at a board of education meeting on Monday, Dec. 11, Cherry Creek School superintendent Chris Smith addressed the videos, saying, “We will not tolerate hate in the Cherry Creek School District.”
He added, “Currently, we are dealing with situations where we’ve had racist videos that have found their way into our school. Disgusting, horrible, racist videos. We’ve had situations of the social media movement around using the N-word.”
He emphasized the need for parents, teachers, principals, and students to actively promote accountability for instances of racist conduct after the most recent video was shared on social media at the end of November.
“We will hold students accountable for their actions. But I also ask us, as adults, to hold ourselves accountable because students are watching us as well — what we say and what we do,” he continued.
This 35-second video, according to a statement made on Facebook by the Rocky Mountain NAACP, had “two intoxicated young women displaying blatant disregard of Black people by repeatedly using the n-word while another young woman films it, is disheartening.”
A spokesperson for the chapter explained that this latest incident comes only two weeks after younger students cackled at a video on the school bus, where one student called other Black students “cotton pickers,” the N-word and said he hated their skin color and how they talked.
The students in both videos are reportedly enrolled at middle schools within the district. The first video showcased students from…
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