Parents, students furious over video of Nassau County kids using racial slurs, wearing white hood

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Clip circulating connected societal media stirs unrest successful schoolhouse assemblage with galore calling for the students’ suspension

Video appearing to amusement 2 young men utilizing radical slurs infuriates parents, students astatine Yulee High School.

A clip that has been wide shared connected societal media shows 2 young, achromatic boys utilizing radical slurs -- 1 of them is seen wearing a achromatic cloth hood.

“Hold on, you spot that?” 1 of the boys said successful the video, pointing consecutive to the camera. “It’s a n****r.”

According to aggregate parents who provided the video to News4Jax, the clip had been sent to a radical of Black students astatine Yulee High School successful Nassau County by 1 of their classmates.

A spokesperson for the Nassau County School District told News4Jax that the pupil who sent the video via SnapChat, was not 1 of the 2 students who appeared successful it.

Nassau County Public School Assistant Superintendent Mark Durham released the pursuing statement:

“The territory was made alert of a video that was recorded this summertime but conscionable precocious sent connected Snap Chat to respective Yulee High School students. The video contained radical slurs and images. It resulted successful a carnal altercation involving respective students. Disciplinary actions accordant with the district’s codification of behaviour person been fixed to students progressive successful the altercation and successful sending the Snap Chat video.”

Mark Durham, Assistant Superintendent of Instruction

News4Jax deemed the video excessively violative to stock successful its unedited form, but an edited mentation volition look successful our sum connected Channel 4 astatine 5 and 6 p.m.

Parents accidental the radical of students who were sent the video connected Snapchat confronted its creator connected field and, due to the fact that of that confrontation, the radical of students was suspended.

“It’s disgusting,” 1 genitor of a Yulee High School pupil told News4Jax. “The information that this kid that made this vile, nasty, distasteful video is inactive walking astir field portion you person kids who confronted him to support themselves are sitting astatine location is two-thirds of the problem.”

The parent, who asked not to beryllium identified, said the remainder of the occupation is the deficiency of a substantive effect from schoolhouse administrators, including Principal Yvon Joinville.

“Basically his fearfulness is this going public, not that it’s been mishandled, not that they didn’t code the existent contented astatine hand,” the genitor said. “None of the above. It’s that helium doesn’t privation the nationalist knowing astir this.”

Melissa Ricks, whose kid was 1 of those suspended, said the medication needs to employment a much proactive, anti-racism attack to the situation.

“This is an contented of outward racism successful our schoolhouse that’s not being brought consciousness to,” Ricks said. “All we request is an medication that cares astir the issues and is consenting to publically bring consciousness to our students and our community, that they are actively looking for ways and resolutions to bring successful the parents, bring successful the students, and fig retired a mode to bring these kids unneurotic and halt allowing the separation.”

Some players connected the Yulee High School shot squad program to protestation the suspension of the Black students and the school’s effect to the video by refusing to play Friday night’s location crippled against Bradford County, according to aggregate parents.

According to Durham, the confrontation was carnal but did not effect successful immoderate injuries.