Father of WI high school graduate blocks Black superintendent from shaking daughter's hand [View all]

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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
#Graduation #Fight


1:56 PM · Jun 3, 2024

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