Texas HS Students 'Auction' Black Students on Social Media, From $1 to $100

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Newsweek


BY SCOTT MCDONALD ON 4/13/21 AT 1:29 AM EDT

Ahigh school on the western outskirts of the Dallas-Forth Worth metroplex has disciplined some of its students for lewd, racist behaviors of allegedly trying to sell Black classmates through social media. The students "pretended" to auction their mates, which triggered harsh punishment from the district.

The Aledo Independent School District (AISD) acknowledged the social media posts.

AISD Superintendent Dr. Susan Bohn sent an email to parents in the district, saying "There is no room for racism or hatred in the Aledo ISD, period."

The social media remarks apparently originated from students enrolled at the Daniel Ninth Grade Campus, and AISD said the gestures were deemed "racial harassment and cyberbullying had occurred and assigned disciplinary consequences in accordance with our policy and the Student Code of Conduct."

The screenshot from the post shows a group called "Slave Trade" pasting emojis of a Black man, a white police officer and a gun to "[racial slur] Farm" and "[racial slur] Auction" that had people bidding $1 on one student and up to $100 on another student.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/texas-hs-students-auction-black-students-social-media-1-100-1583095?piano_t=1

[SoCalDavidS]

1. God How I Hate This Country nt

[agingdem]

2. ..email to the parents...

''no room for racism and hatred"?...um, Madame Superintendent, let me quote a couple of lines from a song from South Pacific.."you've got to be carefully taught to hate and fear, you've got to be taught from year to year, it's got to be drummed into your dear little ear, you've got to be carefully taught".. this vile behavior begins at home...I'm sure the email was deleted unread...

[Roy Rolling]

3. Parents

Parents send kids to school with illegal concepts and it’s the kid who gets punished? The bullshit about parents always being right in a child’s education is totally wrong. Kids need a non-parent as a teacher/mentor. Exactly the opposite of GOP propaganda.

[Deminpenn]

8. Sometimes kids like to do outrageous things, too

That aren't part of their upbringing.

[PatSeg]

12. Yes, I have seen that

Some kids will do anything to fit in and belong. Not everything goes back to the parents.

[Duppers]

15. Exactly!

My parents were southern "rednecks" who were sucessful in a business but still held traditional bigoted, racial beliefs. I was a lucky independent thinker who was forever arguing with my mother. That crap stopped with my sister & myself. That's why it's difficult for me to have any sympathy with the "that's just the way they were taught" reasoning.

"Kids need a non-parent as a teacher/mentor. Exactly the opposite of GOP propaganda."

YES! 👍

[whistler162]

4. Hoepfully.... they can spell GED!

boot their posteriors!

[bucolic_frolic]

5. There's a reference in the movie "Charlie Wilson's War"

to a slave auction, the scene being white college girls as I recall. Sexist to be sure. And that movie is based on a true story. So is it like an underground Texas thing? If so there needs some serious remediation of the mental processes in Texas.

[Lonestarblue]

7. Texas has a lot of people like this.

Though late to the party, it was a slave-holding state. It was no surprise to me that the area just north of Dallas supplied one of the largest groups of Capitol insurrectionists. Racism is alive and well in this state.

[Cheezoholic]

6. This is revolting...

and reminds me of similar stuff that went on in my high school in the 70's. A small klan town in Indiana. Only it was done towards poor white kids in town, that was the diversity. Hate knows no bounds. Sickening.

[AllaN01Bear]

9. can i ask this group a question? how would yoe feel as a white person , this done to u?

i blame the parents 100% on this and i see good people in the world but i also see good people in texas, so i aint going to paint with a broad brush. a few ruin it for the rest of us .

[LymphocyteLover]

10. So depressing this evil shit still happens

[marble falls]

11. "If they don't know any better, damn teach them better."

[Initech]

13. Totally disgusting.

[orleans]

14. i think this also speaks volumes on what these kids are learning & being taught in school

obviously there needs to be far fucking more effective methods in teaching; methods, content, & context.
america's racist history is our greatest sin.

it's not funny, it's not a game, it's a national disgrace.

how disgraceful

[Duppers]

16. +100

[ExTex]

17. "Slave auctions" were an acceptable fundraiser when I was in high school.

One student was the "master" and one (identified by a special bracelet) was the "slave". The slave carried the master's books between classes; but I think that was about it. It only went on for a day or two. (I thought the whole thing was stupid and didn't participate-- not that I would ever have found a willing slave-- usually the girl-- anyway). This was in liberal Ann Arbor in the mid-1960s. When I was in the army several years later, I read in the Washington Post about the uproar when the students in a Virginia high school tried to hold their own slave auction. I remember the complaint from one student: "Why do adults have to play in our sandbox?"

In fifth grade our teacher regularly led the class in singing Stephen Foster songs. I'm still haunted by the memory of a class full of ten-year olds singing, "Oh darkies, how my heart grows weary..." I will omit discussion of the reading of Little Black Sambo during first grade story hour.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

18. Dumb

[BlueWavePsych]

19. K&R

[DenaliDemocrat]

20. I have no words

Very sad. These kids learned this from their parents