NC mom says Black students 'sold' at school 'slave auction.'
Some Black students reportedly were “sold” by classmates at a recent “slave auction” at a Chatham County, N.C., school, prompting the superintendent to send a letter to families condemning “recent unacceptable incidents.” In a letter sent Tuesday night, Chatham County Superintendent Anthony Jackson told families that the district had “become aware of recent incidents involving students using racially insensitive language and offensive imagery.”
Jackson’s letter doesn’t specifically describe the incidents. But a Chatham County parent who has been in contact with district officials detailed in Facebook posts about the “slave auction” and a video that used the N-word.
“Our son experienced a slave auction by his classmates ...” Ashley Palmer wrote in a Facebook post Friday. “His friend ‘went for $350’ and another student was the Slavemaster because he ‘knew how to handle them.’ We even have a video of students harmonizing the N word. Since when were children so blatantly racist?”
Palmer wrote that students received a one-day suspension for the auction. She also said in the Monday update that
the student who had acted as slavemaster “accidentally” hit her son with a baseball four times upon his return to school.
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