In in the present day’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 digital camera that was set as much as livestream the occasion captured them having an informal 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 mentioned within the video obtained by WBZ-TV. “Yeah,” a second man replied.
The primary man then mentioned, “It’s the Black man maintaining us down.” The second man responded, “Yeah, I hate (expletive) and (expletive).”
The video was ultimately taken down, however not earlier than different individuals 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 shocked, I feel like each dad or mum,” mentioned Lynnfield dad or mum Joel McCarthy. “So I couldn’t consider it and that clearly went its manner round with all the highschool youngsters fairly rapidly.”
Ahhh sure — a number 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 maintaining us down” is certainly the whitest sentence within the historical past of Whitetopia — so I’m fairly positive they had been white.)
The “I heard you’re a racist too” line is a wild one as nicely. Are racists out right here in search of bigot buddies to bounce their poor whitey woes off of? Is there some form of Tiki Torch Tinder app on the market that salty Caucasians are downloading to their telephones?
Anyway, after numerous college students and fogeys 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 will’t ignore the truth that this incident passed off at a college occasion and college students had been watching. By now, tons of of Lynnfield Public Colleges college students have heard these phrases. And simply as importantly, they’re now watching what we do subsequent,” Hayman mentioned. “If we deal with this solely as a personnel concern, we miss a important alternative to steer, to develop, and to show. We should present our college students that their group stands firmly in opposition to 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 some other proof,” Dolan and Curtain mentioned. “We, as city leaders, stand collectively in outrage over what has been reported this night and want to state emphatically that racist language and conduct has no place in our city and will likely be handled instantly. It’s particularly regrettable that this incident passed off on what’s and ought to be an evening to have fun our unimaginable seniors. Such incidents, nonetheless, have to be confronted straight and brazenly and a full investigation and applicable motion will likely be taken.”
Look, for those who 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 maintaining you down; it’s simply one thing in you that must be healed.
Good luck with all that.
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