It started with a mock 'slave trade' and a school resolution against racism.

[Nevilledog]

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David Roberts
@drvolts
In a small MI town, a group of white students started a "slave trade" snapchat group, where they "sold" their black peers. In response, the school system passed an equity resolution. Now guess what? White parents are objecting to "critical race theory."

It started with a mock ‘slave trade’ and a school resolution against racism. Now a war over...
The question roiling Traverse City, Mich., is the question roiling America: Is this a racist place?
washingtonpost.com
11:47 AM · Jul 26, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/mock-slave-trade-critical-race-theory/2021/07/23/b4372c36-e9a8-11eb-ba5d-55d3b5ffcaf1_story.html


When the 16-year-old woke the next morning, another message was waiting for her: She had been discussed in the group. Pretty soon the whole story trickled out. A group of mostly White students attending two of Traverse City’s high schools, including Nevaeh’s, had held a mock slave auction on the social media app, “trading” their Black peers for money.

“I know how much I was sold for: one hundred dollars,” said Nevaeh, who is half-Black. “And in the end I was given away for free” — to the friend who first warned her about the group.

The Snapchat group, titled “slave trade,” also saw a student share the messages “all blacks should die” and “let’s start another holocaust,” according to screenshots obtained by The Washington Post. It spurred the fast-tracking of a school equity resolution that condemned racism and vowed Traverse City Area Public Schools would better educate its overwhelmingly White student body and teaching staff on how to live in a diverse country.

But what happened over the next two months revealed how a town grappling with an undeniable incident of racism can serve as fertile ground for the ongoing national war over whether racism is embedded in American society.

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[liberalmuse]

1. I can't wrap my mind around this. Abhorrent.

Looks like racist parents are to blame for raising horrible racist offspring. This is unbelievably vile and has no place in a civil society. My heart rips apart for people of color who have had to deal with this bullshit day in and day out for hundreds of years. This has to stop. There needs to be laws against this garbage. Critical Race Theory should be required in any school seeking government tax dollars.

[UpInArms]

2. Appalling

Who would have believed that we, as a nation, would cease to evolve …

We have devolved into a horrific society of morons.

[Bettie]

3. What kind of parent raises kids who

would do this?

Never mind, I already know.