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Origin
In March 2021, Texas school district administrators learned of a purported mock slave auction organized by high school students on Snapchat. The students attended the Don R. Daniel Ninth Grade Campus at Aledo High School. They were subsequently disciplined by the Aledo Independent School District. Aledo is a suburb of Fort Worth.
Mock Bids and Racial Epithets
The news was first reported by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on April 12. It published that the students who participated in the group pretended to sell their Black classmates. They placed mock bids and posted comments about the bids.
A screenshot showed that the group name had at various times included the words “slave trade,” “farm,” and “auction.” When the screenshot was captured, the group name appeared to be a racial epithet followed by the word “auction.”
By Ryan Shepard
Apr 13, 2021
Parents are firing back after the Aledo Independent School District labeled an online slave trading gamed led by students as cyberbullying and not racism. The controversy surrounding the north Texas school district revolves around an online game created by students where students trade students of color for digital currency. For example, one student could be worth $100 because other students like them, but another student could be worth $1 if other students don t like their hairstyle. Participating students called the online activity Slave Trade or N Farm, Understandably, parents, teachers and students of color were outraged. It makes me sick from the standpoint, Who do they think they are? What gives them the right to think they can do that to someone else?, former Aledo Independent School District parent