Schools Superintendent Apologizes as Parents Slam Horrifying 'Slave Auction'

[Nevilledog]

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Chatham School District Superintendent Anthony Jackson apologized after Black students were “sold” by classmates in a mock “slave auction": “In Chatham County schools, we proudly boast that diversity is our strength..."

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Schools Superintendent Apologizes as Parents Slam Horrifying ‘Slave Auction’
Parents said that one Black student was “sold” for $350.
12:20 PM · Mar 15, 2022

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A North Carolina schools superintendent apologized Monday after Black students were “sold” by classmates in a mock “slave auction.”

“I want to offer an apology…to every single student who has ever felt unsafe while in our care, to every student who has ever felt demeaned, disrespected or marginalized because of their race, ethnicity, sex, gender, religion or disability,” Chatham School District Superintendent Anthony Jackson said at a Monday night board meeting. “In Chatham County schools, we proudly boast that diversity is our strength, and moving forward it will be our intentional focus to ensure that this celebration includes everyone.”

More than a week after a parent complained about Black students at J.S. Waters School being subjected to a “slave auction,” the Chatham County School Board unanimously approved the superintendent’s policy changes for the district in hopes of preventing similar racist incidents from happening in the future.

In his list of changes, Jackson vowed to take stronger disciplinary actions against students who engage in bigotry. He also wants to implement sensitivity training for all district staff members, Spectrum News1 Charlotte reported.

The “auction” sparked widespread social media conversations when Ashley Palmer, a J.S. Waters parent, posted about it March 4.

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[regnaD kciN]

1. "In Chatham County schools, we proudly boast that diversity is our strength..."

“…because, without our n******, who would we get to be our slaves?”

[gratuitous]

2. Dear School Administrators and Teachers: Please write this down. In ink.

As one White person to other White people, please take these admonitions to heart. Don't complain about them, don't question them, don't ask for an explanation:

Don't have White people go around in blackface.

Don't sell Black students at mock slave auctions.

Don't complain that you can't say the n-word anymore.

Don't pull the corners of your eyes up to imitate Asians.

Don't wear a feathered headdress or call yourself an Indian Princess.

Just.

Don't.

[Hekate]

6. Amen

[Dial H For Hero]

3. How can anyone in 2022 be so clueless as to not recognize the sort of backlash

that would immediately result from holding this sort of event in a school?

[Bettie]

4. Has NO ONE there even seen news stories on how this went at other schools?

We see one every couple of months, it seems.

FFS, how stupid are these people?

[roamer65]

5. Auction off the white male students only.

Oh wait…my bad..that must be CRT.

[Nevilledog]

8. They'd just call it a Bachelor Auction

[roamer65]

10. Good point.

The superintendent should lose their job.

[PSPS]

7. Standard non-apology. "disciplinary actions against students who engage in bigotry"

What about "disciplinary actions" against teachers and staff ... and superintendents?

[Caliman73]

9. So a vice principle gets fired for reading "I Need a New Butt" ...

an innocent children's book that teaches kids to appreciate their bodies being normal and "good as they are", and the district that thinks a "slave auction" where actual black children are sold as chattel slaves, issues an apology and "done"?

We have our priorities so fucked!