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Daily News | Online News California high school cancels its football season after ‘deeply offensive and disgraceful’ video emerged of team members acting out a ‘slave auction’ of their black players
- Members of high school football team allegedly filmed themselves holding a slave auction in which they sold their black teammates
- Video emerged of the ‘deeply offensive and disgraceful’ frat boy-style prank
- River Valley High School’s football team has cancelled the rest of its season
- The players in the video have been suspended and may face further action
By Walter Finch For Mailonline
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A California football team has cancelled the rest of its season after video emerged of some of its players allegedly acting out a slave auction in which they appeared to auction off black teammates.
The shocking video purportedly shows members of River Valley High School’s football team in Yuba City deliberately carrying out the ‘reprehensible’ act as a form of frat boy-style prank.
Yuba City Unified School District Superintendent Doreen Osumi slammed the stunt as ‘deeply offensive and disgraceful’ in a statement seen by CNN.
‘The recording clearly demonstrates that this situation was orchestrated and organized, which underscores my concern that students spent time contemplating this terrible act without the slightest regard that this action is hateful and hurtful,’ Osumi said.
Members of River Valley High School’s football team in Yuba City (pictured) have been suspended and had the team’s season cancelled after they filmed themselves acting out a slave auction in which they auctioned off their black teammates
Yuba City Unified School District Superintendent Doreen Osumi slammed the stunt as ‘deeply offensive and disgraceful’ in a statement seen by CNN
‘(River Valley players) may argue that it was a joke, and they intended no harm, but the fact is that this is not only harmful, it is disgraceful.’
‘Re-enacting a slave sale as a prank tells us that we have a great deal of work to do with our students so they can distinguish between intent and impact.’
‘They may have thought this skit was funny but it is not; it is unacceptable and requires us to look honestly and deeply at issues of systemic racism.’
The team members identified in the ‘unfortunate and extremely distressing incident’ video were immediately suspended for the remainder of the season for violating the school’s student-athlete code of conduct.
This meant that the football team did not have enough players to compete in the league and were forced to forfeit every game.
Some of the players involved may face further disciplinary measures, Osumi said, and the school will also implement ‘education, honest, open discussions and instruction’ around racism.
‘At this time, the District and site administration are working in earnest to identify lessons and programs to help our student body learn from this situation,’ she went on.
‘When students find humor in something that is so deeply offensive, it tells me that we have an opportunity to help them expand their mindset to be more aware, thoughtful and considerate of others.’
The role play was first made public when Ashley Palmer, a mother of a student at the school, posted about it on Facebook, having been told about the incident by her own son, Jeremiah
The J.S. Waters School in North Carolina school is coming under fire after holding a mock ‘slave auction’ in which white middle-schoolers pretended to sell their black classmates
The sick stunt is not the first such incident of school kids pretending to hold mock slave auctions.
In March earlier this year, a North Carolina middle school held a mock slave auction and white students pretended to sell a black student for $350 while singing the n-word.
The mock auction happened in the presence of staff and faculty at the J.S. Waters School near Raleigh and was even recorded on video, according to the Chatham Organizing For Racial Equity.
The tasteless role play was first made public when Ashley Palmer, a mother of a student at the school, posted about it on Facebook, having been told about the incident by her own son, Jeremiah.
Palmer was further infuriated when the perpetrators were suspended for just a day, with the school district forced into action thanks to a tidal wave of local fury.
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