The father of a Baraboo High School graduate blocked his daughter from shaking the hand of the Black superintendent as she graduated, video of the incident shows.
The school district, which has had repeated problems with racism and antisemitism, held its graduation Friday. The father was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, Wisconsin News reported.
The father, who has been identified as 49-year-old Matt Eddy, jumped on stage, grabbed the superintendent and began dragging him to the back of the stage.
I call bullshit on the claim it’s “because of how bullying cases were handled”. Looks pretty straightforward, racist AF to me.
And even if that were true, or more likely he was a racist dickhead, either way: if he had such a big problem, if he wanted to protest…you don’t have to publicly cross the stage at graduation. Not that he’s smart enough to reason this out. But crossing the stage is a privilege, it is public recognition, it is a community event. The graduate need not be compelled to participate; she could have received her diploma in the mail (like most do, anyway) & stayed home.
Although judging by the girl’s reaction, her father was acting off-the-cuff, alone, and without her knowledge. I’m hoping that’s the case. Racism is fucking stupid.
All he had to do is wait it out one more night and they would never have to see the scary man again. Instead, he announced to the world what is going on in his head and there’s nothing good in there.
From a scientific standpoint I’d love to know what was going through the racist dad’s head in that moment
Too many facebook posts ending with “And Everyone Clapped”.
In fairness, security dragging that guy off did elicit some applause.
The article also mentions that it may have happened because the father was unhappy with how the superintendent had dealt with the daughter being bullied.
I mean, that’s what he said.
But he didn’t care about the white principal…
And he didn’t just stop a handshake, he bullrushes the guy off the stage.
blocking black superintendent from shaking daughter’s hand
is something of an understated headline. Looks like he straight up assaulted the superintendent.
