Father of WI high school graduate blocks Black superintendent from shaking daughter's hand

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📌This is a picture of high school students in Baraboo, Wisconsin, flashing the Nazi salute in 2019.

📌We were told at the time, it was a harmless, isolated incident. Those of us who know Baraboo knew better. It has a history of the worst kind of racism known to man.

📌On Friday, a white man rushed the stage of the HS graduation in Baraboo, and grabbed the town's school superintendent by the arm to prevent him from shaking hands with his daughter.

📌The superintendent, Dr. Rainey Briggs, is a Black man.

📌I type this because I know this kind of disgusting incident isn't isolated in America. WE know the horrors that have been unleashed and given freedom to infest and divide us since that terrible day on November 8, 2016, when we were told by the White House that there were good people on both sides of a KKK rally.

📌This is what MUST be defeated once and for all in November, or to hell with all of us ...

Here's the terrible story.

wiscnews.com
Father of Baraboo High School graduate blocks superintendent from shaking daughter's hand
The man ran onto the stage just after his daughter had been handed her diploma and began working her way down a line of school officials shaking hands.
12:29 PM · Jun 4, 2024

https://wiscnews.com/news/local/education/baraboo-graduation-2024-rainey-briggs/article_b33200cc-21bd-11ef-be03-0fe0b2b7a52c.html

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The father of a Baraboo High School graduate forcibly pulled the district superintendent away from his daughter as she crossed the stage to receive a congratulatory handshake during the school’s graduation ceremony Friday.

The man, who is not being named to protect his daughter’s identity, ran onto the stage just after the girl had been handed her diploma and began working her way down a line of school officials shaking hands.

Before she could get to district Superintendent Rainey Briggs, the man, wearing a white polo shirt and baseball cap, grabbed Briggs by his right arm and pushed him away.

“That’s my daughter,” the man can be heard saying in video of the ceremony by TV43 Baraboo.

Briggs can be heard telling the man, “You better get up off me man. Get away from me bro” as staff working the graduation and three Baraboo police officers including the school resource officer intervened. At one point, a voice can be heard saying, “I don’t want her touching him.”

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Superintendent Rainey Briggs was attacked during the Baraboo High School graduation. The unnamed attacker, was a “father” who didn’t want his graduating daughter to shake the hand of a Black man, so he ruined her moment
That’s racism for you in 2024
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1:56 PM · Jun 3, 2024

It is not lost on me that the local article totally omits mention that the Superintendent is Black.

[jeffreyi]

1. The daughter...

Seems to be appalled and embarrassed.

[Iris]

5. That poor girl

[hamsterjill]

79. I hope she is the future.

I had a good friend who was completely and totally anti-Obama. Constant rants on Facebook and elsewhere about how we couldn’t dare let him be elected or God would strike us down, etc.

The sweetest karma possible for me was a post from her son saying, “Mom, I’m voting for Obama.”

So, sometimes seeing the worst brings out the best. Let’s hope this is one of those times.

[Traurigkeit]

19. Would not surprise me in near future that "father" has no ability to contact the daugther.

[Bristlecone]

24. Man, she just got a lifetime memory of the worst kind

That Dad is a POS.

[mercuryblues]

44. I am pretty sure she already knows

What a POS he is.

When somebody is willing to do something like that in public, What do you think they do in private?

[paleotn]

35. "My daddy is a racist jackass."

[B.See]

49. The daughter seems to be appalled and embarrassed

as well she SHOULD be. Hopefully she's a much better person than her father.

[PlutosHeart]

70. She looks defeated

so imagine her home life might be a living hell.

[LoisB]

2. It doesn't rub off, asshole.

[Lunabell]

3. They need to name and shame him!

His ass needs to be all over the news.

[Jerry2144]

7. If they did

The Republiklan Party would nominate him for national office

[elias7]

8. Let's discourage and teach but not cancel or dox

I feel the ability to destroy people’s lives and career for whatever we deem a penalizable transgression is toxic behavior. If toxic behavior is borne out of having power, then we are all susceptible to toxic masculinity, toxic femininity, toxic whiteness, toxic blackness, etc. and such power wielding is primarily a human quality rather than simply a white male quality.

[Lunabell]

18. I think he knew exactly what he was doing.

And I don't think any teaching or education will change his mind. People like that already have been taught and embraced hate and nothing but a serious societal comeuppance will make any impact.

I say, name and shame him and if he loses his job, so be it.

[Celerity]

42. Agree. The 'they go low but we go high' advice was the worst ever to come from the Obamas. You never bring

a knife to a gun fight.

Politics always was, is, and will be a brutal power war in the US (and almost all other nations, even here in Sweden, for instance).

[malaise]

89. THIS

Rec

[edisdead]

46. Yeah sure. Nazis should get a second chance too right?

Fuck ALL of that noise.

[John Shaft]

51. Yeah, no

fuck that motherfucker.

[JI7]

58. I agree in some cases like some of the Karen videos. But this was assault

this is a case where the guy should be arrested .

[Maraya1969]

61. I have a feeling if he works for some other company he is already fired.

[Prairie Gates]

67. Agreed

Resist the little fascist in all of us.

[NanaCat]

83. Ostracism isn't for him

It's for the people watching. If they see that others find a behaviour unacceptable, they will be less inclined to repeat it themselves.

This is how we teach those raised by wolves what constitutes acceptable behaviour.

[orange jar]

31. No.

Other than the fact that doxing is already out of control, it also creates a potential danger for other family members (such as the daughter) who are nothing like the father. The Left should never encourage doxing.

[Lunabell]

36. You are certainly entitled to your opinion.

As am I. The only thing that works, is publicly shaming these people.

Besides, he outed himself. He got arrested for disorderly conduct and is now a matter of public knowledge.

[edisdead]

47. Yep.

This was an assault.

This wasn’t a misunderstanding. This was a fucking assault. You pull thos shit you get known for it.

[hadEnuf]

82. We shouldn't keep taking it from these scum of the earth people either.

That is a good part of how we've gotten to where we are today.

These people are right-wing animals. They do not understand anything other than winning or losing. Anything in the middle is simply a weakness to be exploited and weaponized by them.

[Think. Again.]

4. My heart goes out to the fine young student.

[PatSeg]

12. Same here

I'm sure that isn't the first time her father has embarrassed her. Now for the rest of her life, this is what she will remember from her graduation day. What a total jackass.

[cyndensco]

30. My heart goes out to the superintendent.

Just living his life, doing his job, and accosted by a jackass.

One's perspective, I guess.

[Think. Again.]

33. Yes, there to congratulate the students on their proud day.

[happy feet]

37. Thank you

For thinking of the real victim. Commenters seem to not care one bit for the impact on the Superintendent, no less.

[edisdead]

48. Yes the Superintendent is the direct victim

But that whole room was victimized by this shothead. And i do think it is ok for people to notice the effect ot had on the daughter. She is a “real” victim too. Likely more than we know.

[sybylla]

66. My heart goes out to the Superintendent who didn't deserve that treatment

in private or in front of a whole stadium full of students. It's fucking awful.

Too many ugly racists in rural WI. I know. I live here and I've gone door to door trying to talk to voters about President Obama. Too many had no fear of absolutely waving their whole asses out in front of me and my team. No where near Baraboo, either.

[Raven123]

6. The article may not name him, but his identity will become public

[exboyfil]

9. That is battery

The man should be charged

[bluestarone]

10. Yes, and charged with

A RACIST HATE CRIME!

[AllyCat]

16. He was charged with disorderly conduct.

[duhneece]

21. My first thought nt

[Rebl2]

11. The look

on her face went from smiling to sadness when she realized what happened. Great job father 👎

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

13. Way to go, Jackass

You turned your daughter's big day into your day. Hope you're proud of yourself. Couldn't even be civil for an hour, could you?

[AllyCat]

15. I have had the honor of having breakfast with Dr Briggs.

He is a kind, intelligent man. This broke my heart to see.

Then again, this is the same school that had a prom photo with all the kids doing a Nazi salute.

[Ace Rothstein]

17. Absolutely unhinged behavior.

[Conjuay]

20. Withhold the diploma

Have daddy write an apology for his behavior to the local paper etc

[murielm99]

23. No.

Don't punish the kid for her father's behavior.

[orange jar]

27. Uh, no.

Punishing the kid because their narcissistic parent decided to be an asshole is gross behavior.

[Maraya1969]

62. Her daughter wasn't the asshole. She shouldn't be punished for what he did

And I'm sure she didn't know what he was going to do because she was just walking down the line shaking people's hands

[Jilly_in_VA]

77. No way

She earned that diploma. It's not her fault that her father is a racist jackass.

[NanaCat]

84. Oh FFS

We don't make innocent people pay for the crimes of others.

Really.

What is wrong with you to want that young woman punished for something she didn't do?

[Celerity]

22. young Nixon in the first pic

[TNNurse]

25. Hope all those who blame racism on the South, read this.

[maxrandb]

54. I get so tired of this canard

Sorry, but sure, there are racist in every state in the nation, but, and it's a BIG but, the racist asshats in blue states don't have the power of the state behind them.

Know what the difference between a racist in California and a racist in Alabama is?

The racist in Alabama has the power of the governor and State Legislature behind him.

That's a HUGE difference.

[Blue Owl]

26. How disgusting

[Silent Type]

28. At least crowd sounded like they disapproved of the pissant. I'm surprised someone didn't punch the rube.

[orange jar]

29. That poor daughter.

I think her facial expressions make it very clear that she found her father's actions despicable and embarrassing. I hope she's safe, because her father being that controlling of her at the age of 17/18 is… not a great sign.

[Tetrachloride]

32. Baraboo is county seat of Sauk County

Near the tourist area of Wisconsin Dells, a Ho Chunk nation casino and a key portion of the Wisconsin River.

An hour drive north of Madison.

[maxrandb]

55. There is only one way to impact this crap

and I am sorry if any SANE person with a business in this country would be harmed, but...

Nothing will change! The racism, fascism, misogyny, hatred and white supremacy...NONE OF IT...will change, unless and until we make racism, fascism, misogyny, hatred and white supremacy UNPROFITABLE to the businesses, corporations and individuals that fund and enable it.

[PlutosHeart]

71. Don't they have a circus museum?

Is her father in it made from wax?

[Tetrachloride]

74. and plenty of geological history

i have seen the outside of the museum a few years ago

[TheRealNorth]

78. Maybe he escaped from the freak show.. .

[ecstatic]

34. racist snowflakes

What a f*cking asshole! His daughter, assuming she's not the same way, needs to cut him off until he gets the help he desperately needs.

[Sogo]

38. I'm glad you qualified your comment to say "assuming she's not the same way...."

I was wondering while reading the rest of the thread if everyone was right about the daughter being embarrassed. How do they know she doesn't have the same attitude about the black superintendent....

[Solomon]

45. Agreed

[cyndensco]

69. I can only imagine the topics of their family dinner conversations

and am not at all convinced she was THAT embarrassed.

[XorXor]

88. What do you think should happen to her?

Would you support her being named and shamed until she puts out a public statement apologizing for what happened? How about a campaign to get her unenrolled from the college she is planning on attending? I mean, since we know she's a horrible person as you said, that is usually the next step, right?

[Think. Again.]

81. I think assuming something so negative about someone...

...based only on their relative's actions, would be to victimize her, and everyone else in the room who DID NOT DO what her father did, even more.

[NanaCat]

85. I think it's from her clear signs of mortification

Everything in her facial expression and body language demonstrated it.

[Sogo]

39. I understand he got arrested for disorderly conduct, but it looks like assault to me.

And how does anyone here know if the girl doesn't have the same attitude?

[appleannie1]

43. She did not look happy. Embarrassed, sad and almost in tears. Her big smile died as soon as she realized what was

going on. She went off stage and then left altogether.

[AllyCat]

50. I agree. Should have been assault.

Dr Briggs is a good man, hired after the 2019 Nazi prom photo. Heard a presentation from their district after the incident and the more they talked, the more I realized they hadn’t learned anything from that.

And now this…

[NanaCat]

86. I see that you've made the assumption

That these will be the only charges. Over and over, we see these cases where the first charge(s) might be something light, but then the DA does the, you know, sane and professional thing of waiting for the police to complete their investigation. And then, lo and behold, here comes a more serious charge(s).

Why don't you wait a bit to see how the case progresses before assuming this will be the only charge?

[appleannie1]

40. WTG Dad. You ruined your daughter's day while proving you are a racist ass

[Demovictory9]

41. He was arrested!! Good!

https://www.wmtv15news.com/2024/06/03/parent-charges-stage-during-baraboo-high-school-graduation/

[Ziggysmom]

52. My home state is turning into Wississippi!!

[OAITW r.2.0]

53. And to think she had to deal with this "father" for 18 years.

[keithbvadu2]

56. OMG! What if the sup had been a Jew?

??? Not really.

[LudwigPastorius]

57. Better headline: T Bird's Graduation Ruined By Shit Bird

[Boomerproud]

59. There's post racial America for you.

According to the SC racism no longer exists.

[RandiFan1290]

60. YouTube video

?si=pCvsQTSLIhfysAjj

[Renew Deal]

63. The video says that the incident has to do with the parent not being happy how bullying was handled.

And implies that it doesn't have to do with race. Where did the race narrative come from?

[XorXor]

90. It's pretty easy to see how that conclusion could be made

It's strange for anyone to act that way for any reason. The "I don't want her touching him" sentiment seems like something a racist might say. It might not be about race, but it's hard to understand why the father would behave like this just because he felt the person he confronted didn't do their job. There's a level of emotional irrationality in these actions that makes racism seems plausible.

The only other possible explanation I can think of is if the school officials did something terrible to the daughter. However, there's no evidence to suggest that.

[SpankMe]

64. Needs more information and context

The Wisconsin News article references that there was a lot of criticism of, and controversy surrounding, the superintendent. Also, a local TV news report claims that the parent was unhappy about the way the superintendent handled instances of bullying against his daughter.

That muddies things a bit if trying to characterize this as a racial incident.

I'm not defending the guy. Under no circumstances should he have gone on to the stage and touched anyone. I'm just saying that there's an avalanche of racial accusations going on here and in the Twitter posts being referenced. But, the local news outlets don't seem to be mentioning that.

[John Shaft]

72. Whitesplanations incoming

And racism doesn't exist either, right?

[NanaCat]

87. If that were the issue

Then that still wasn't the proper time, place or way to address it.

And why target the only black person there? Superintendents don't often have direct involvement with bullying in schools. Why not go after one of those white people around him who were probably working at the school and did too little about bullying themselves?

But, yeah, sure, it wasn't racism at all!

[mahina]

65. Disgusting and upsetting

[Joinfortmill]

68. Dad should be arrested. It's assault.

[electric_blue68]

73. Racist droog! Go back to the 1830's! Horrible experience for that Superintendent!

And maybe he could be arrested for assault .

[EndlessWire]

75. High School graduation is a big deal.

It's tough to get through, and those children deserved an unblemished celebration of their accomplishments. That man left an ugly stain on the entire graduating class and their families.

The look on that girl's face when she obviously realized what was happening was sad. She didn't appear to know what to do, so she exited, and remembered to move her tassel over. The movement of the tassel was a big moment for her, but it was lost. Her father didn't get to see that, because he was too busy committing a battery on an official.

He should have the charges upgraded to battery, maybe A&B, but that won't change anything. I like the way the woman at the podium controlled the crowd of graduates. What a shame this happened. It was a completely selfish act of one individual. I hope as time passes the memory dims. Maybe she'll make it to a college graduation, and her daddy won't be allowed to come, because, you know, she might actually touch a black person or have a black official congratulate her, and daddy might go berserk.

You'd think a guy could suck up his hatred long enough for his child to be honored with her diploma. What, no HS grad photos because he was in jail? What was he thinking? And, you know that kids want to celebrate after their graduation. Hers was probably ruined. Thanks, Dad. Asshole...

[Baitball Blogger]

76. She didn't look like she knew it was going to happen.

The father should face legal consequences for laying hands on him.

[SarcasticSatyr]

80. He has been identified as Matthew Eddy . . .

https://wiscnews.com/news/local/education/baraboo-grad-situation-update/article_086f9db6-234d-11ef-a723-1b9119a9c3b7.html