By Victor Omondi
Texas parents are infuriated after discovering that some white students were “auctioning” and “trading” their Black classmates as slaves in an online game.
The game that was played among Daniel Ninth Grade Campus students in a Snapchat group priced Black students between $1-$100. A student posted “$1 for Chris” and “would be better if his hair wasn’t so bad.”
According to reports from local Aledo news sites, school officials were alerted of the game by a student.
District officials sent a letter to Aledo ISD parents a few weeks after being notified.
“There is no room for racism or hatred in the Aledo ISD, period. Using inappropriate, offensive, and racially charged language and conduct is completely unacceptable and is prohibited by district policy,” read the April 12 letter.
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.”
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A group of high school students in Texas have been disciplined for setting up a “slave trade” messaging group that assigned prices to their black peers.
Messages shared on the Snapchat app at a school in Aledo Texas said one student was worth a dollar and another 100 bucks, the New York Times reported.
The school district conducted an inquiry and found “racial harassment and cyberbullying” had occurred.
But some parents accused authorities of failing to respond appropriately.
Messages posted on the group’s Snapchat, which was reportedly labelled with terms such as ‘farm’ and ‘auction’, said the price set for one student “would be better if his hair wasn’t so bad”, according to the New York Times, which said it had seen screenshots of exchanges.
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