TikTok Teacher Branded as Racist For Taking Student s Durag
On 4/16/21 at 5:22 PM EDT
A junior high teacher has been slammed online after footage surfaced of her mocking a Black student s durag she had confiscated earlier in the day.
Wyoming middle school teacher Mariah Webb was initially called out on TikTok by a popular Black creator who goes by the name Aunt Karen. On Tuesday, Webb posted a since-deleted video holding up a durag and making fun of the item. Things that my kids bring to school that I get to confinscate, she says, misstating the word confiscate. Looks like pantyhose! She ends her video by putting the durag on her head while making a face.
Mariah Webb, 29, is an English teacher at Sheridan Junior High School in Sheridan, Wyoming
This week, she shared a video on TikTok in which she smirked while showing off a black do-rag that she said she got to confiscate from a kid
She said it looks like pantyhose and made a face while putting it on her head
Do-rags are used to protect hair, create waves, and hold a hairstyle in place, and have become a fashion statement of their own in recent decades
They are also an important part of black culture and history
TikTok user @auntkaren0 identified Webb and shared the video on her own page, blasting her as racist of the day