Racist video by two Santaluces High girls leads to extra security at school [View all]

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(via drudge.com, not Matt's site)

by Allison Ross

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Updated: 8:58 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012

Posted: 11:14 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012

School officials are grappling with fallout from the widespread release of a YouTube.com video showing two Santaluces High students making racial remarks about fellow students.

The four-minute video, brought to officials' attention late Monday, shows two female teens sitting in front of a camera, one of them brushing her hair, as they ramble about some of the black students in their school.

The teens make derogatory comments about girls who wear hair weaves and talk about how students "start turning black" when they walk into the school. "You catch the disease," one of the girls says, laughing.

After giggling their way through the video, the girls conclude with the phrase "Peace and love!" and flash the peace sign as the video ends.

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Santaluces High is 27 percent white, 35 percent black and 33 percent Hispanic, according to the latest enrollment numbers from the school district.

full: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/schools/racist-video-by-two-santaluces-high-girls-leads-2190033.html

without advocating retaliatory violence against these teenagers, the bottom line is: you just don't say this kind of stuff in public. period. glad to see the community taking a stand against these empty heads.

Also, I wish this Palm Beach Post writer took another step in research for this story; i take issue with this passage "Asked whether hate crime or other charges were possible, (criminal defense attorney Michael) Salnick declined comment in detail. "People turn to attorneys for advice," he said." In fact, because of the 1st amendment, hate speech is not and cannot be a crime in the US unless there are explicit violent threats towards others or is accompanied by a violent crime.

Unfortunately, the power of Internet trolling or the general ignorance of the general internet audience led the Post website to put this bold statement in the comments section: "User comments are not being accepted on this article."