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April 23, 2021
TCAPS says the group is called “slave trade” and targets Black students in Traverse City.
Parents of one of the victims tell us students are posting pictures of Black students and then giving them a price tag. Comments include “All Blacks should die” and “Let’s have another Holocaust.”
Nevaeh Wharton is a 15 year-old sophomore at Traverse City Central High School.
She got wind of the Snapchat group another local student had started.
“I pass some of them in the hallways, and I smiled at some of them in the hallways, and then I see that they say stuff about me and their other classmates like this,” says Nevaeh. “My friend texted me one night saying my friends created this weird group chat and I was like what’s it about? She was like they’re pretending to sell people of color-kids- that go to our school.”