Texas Students Price Classmates Of Color In Slave Trade Snapchat
Students at the predominantly white high school were disciplined for their participation in the group Snapchat message.
A Texas school district announced this week that it had disciplined students who set prices on their classmates of color in a group Snapchat called “Slave Trade.”
According to The New York Times, a group of students at the predominantly white Don R. Daniel Ninth Grade Campus of Aledo High School participated in the chat, which included emojis of a police officer aiming a gun at a Black farmer in the name. The chat’s name was later changed to include a racial slur followed by the words “Farm” and then “Auction.”
Texas students punished for racist incident
Texas students punished for racist incident
Washington, Apr 15 (Prensa Latina) The Aledo Independent School District, in Texas, announced it had disciplined students from its Daniel Ninth Grade Campus after internal investigations involving law enforcement found they had bullied and harassed other students based on their race.
The Snapchat groups were called Slave Trade, and other titles with racial slurs. In the chats, students from Aledo, Tex., pretended to buy and sell their Black peers, according to screenshots given to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Local activists provided the Star-Telegram with screenshots of chats showing a group using racial slurs with the words Farms and ¨Auction.¨ The group had also been named with emoji of a Black man, a gun and a White police officer.
Texas students disciplined over âslave auctionâ on Snapchat
Texas students allegedly pretended to sell Black classmates in online slave auction By Associated Press | April 15, 2021 at 12:57 AM EDT - Updated April 15 at 2:42 AM
ALEDO, Texas (AP) - Students at a North Texas high school are being disciplined for their role in a mock slave auction they conducted on social media.
Civil rights activists tell the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that a group of students at a ninth-grade school campus in the Fort Worth suburb of Aledo set up a âslave auctionâ of Black classmates on Snapchat.
Aledo school Superintendent Susan Bohn said district officials learned more than two weeks ago of students cyberbullying other students based on their race. The district didnât specify what discipline has been dealt out to the students.
USA TODAY
A North Texas school district is condemning the acts of students who reportedly assigned prices to students of color in a Slave Trade auction Snapchat group message.
The Aledo Independent School District released a statement on Monday denouncing the actions of students at the Daniel Ninth Grade Campus who were bullying and harassing other students based on their race.
The name of the group message changed multiple times, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported, using a racial slur in the name in many instances.
In the group message, one student said a student was worth a dollar and the price “would be better if his hair wasn’t so bad,” according to a photo of the group chat shared with USA TODAY. The group message also had emojis with a police officer pointing its gun at a Black farmer.
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