In at the moment’s episode of Racists Maintain Forgetting There Are Cameras In every single place, city employees in Lynnfield, Massachusetts, who had been organising folding chairs for a highschool’s commencement final Friday, have been positioned on depart after a digicam that was set as much as livestream the occasion captured them having an off-the-cuff dialogue about how they’re anti-Black bigots and fairly rattling pleased with it.
From CBS Information:
“Yeah, I heard you’re a racist (expletive) too,” one man stated within the video obtained by WBZ-TV. “Yeah,” a second man replied.
The primary man then stated, “It’s the Black man protecting us down.” The second man responded, “Yeah, I hate (expletive) and (expletive).”
The video was ultimately taken down, however not earlier than different folks noticed it on social media.
“After we first noticed it, my son was displaying it to me on his social media and I used to be like, my jaw dropped. I used to be fairly surprised, I feel like each dad or mum,” stated Lynnfield dad or mum Joel McCarthy. “So I couldn’t consider it and that clearly went its method round with all the highschool youngsters fairly rapidly.”
Ahhh sure — a couple of lowly white supremacists had been bonding over their racial resentment and thought they had been in a secure place — *checks notes* — at a highschool. (The racial id of the city employees hasn’t been revealed, however “It’s the Black man protecting us down” is unquestionably the whitest sentence within the historical past of Whitetopia — so I’m fairly certain they had been white.)
The “I heard you’re a racist too” line is a wild one as nicely. Are racists out right here on the lookout for bigot buddies to bounce their poor whitey woes off of? Is there some type of Tiki Torch Tinder app on the market that salty Caucasians are downloading to their telephones?
Anyway, after numerous college students and oldsters noticed the video of bigots being bigots whereas organising for a commencement ceremony, faculty committee member Jamie Hayman issued a public assertion demanding motion.
“We are able to’t ignore the truth that this incident came about at a faculty occasion and college students had been watching. By now, a whole bunch of Lynnfield Public Colleges college students have heard these phrases. And simply as importantly, they’re now watching what we do subsequent,” Hayman stated. “If we deal with this solely as a personnel difficulty, we miss a essential alternative to steer, to develop, and to show. We should present our college students that their neighborhood stands firmly towards hate and discrimination.”
Lynnfield City Administrator Robert Dolan and Assistant City Administrator Robert Curtin launched a joint assertion of their very own, addressing the matter.
“The people within the video have been recognized and I’ve positioned them on administrative depart pending a full investigation of the video and every other proof,” Dolan and Curtain stated. “We, as city leaders, stand collectively in outrage over what has been reported this night and want to state emphatically that racist language and habits has no place in our city and can be handled instantly. It’s particularly regrettable that this incident came about on what’s and ought to be an evening to have a good time our unbelievable seniors. Such incidents, nonetheless, have to be confronted straight and brazenly and a full investigation and acceptable motion can be taken.”
Look, in the event you can’t droop your racial hatred lengthy sufficient to keep away from turning a highschool commencement right into a mini Klan help group, it’s not “the Black man” that’s protecting you down; it’s simply one thing in you that must be healed.
Good luck with all that.
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