A former student has sued an Illinois high school, citing multiple racist incidents he experienced and observed during his time at the school.
“When I jokingly reached for it – he was at the front of the class – he turned around and said, ‘If you touch that cookie cake, I’m going to lynch you,’” Fabian told the news outlet. “I didn’t even know how to respond. It was like a deer-in-the-headlights kind of moment.”
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Bruh, I don’t care if the kid was a teenager, threatening to lynch someone over a cookie cake is an offense worthy of being stomped. No one should be threatening to lynch anyone, period. Doing so over a cookie cake, makes you simultaneously racist and a punk-bitch.
A Trump, if you will.
While the incident was shocking for Fabian, it wasn’t exactly unexpected. “For four years, I’ve heard multiple slurs being thrown around towards African-American students, Mexican students,” Fabian said.
Fabian’s mother, TeSaxton Washington, told CBS Chicago that while the student who made the threat was eventually suspended, the response from the school is what spurred the family to take legal action. “It was apparent from day one that this was not something that they were really going to treat seriously,” Washington told CBS Chicago.
Washington said she felt more confident in filing the suit after speaking to the parents of other students who have experienced similar incidents. “This was not just his story,” Washington told the news outlet. “In fact, this is something that has been going on for at least five decades.”
Source: Former Student Sues Illinois High School for Blatant, Widespread Racism
