Group of Texas students disciplined after they pretended to auction Black classmates in Snapchat group "N***** Auction"
CNN) Multiple high school students in Texas are facing disciplinary action after they created a social media group pretending to auction off their Black peers.
The group, called "N***** Auction" on the app Snapchat, was started by a handful of students at the Aledo Independent School District, just outside of Fort Worth.
One student bid $100 on one student, according to a screenshot of the messages. Another wrote "1$ on Chris. Would be better if his hair wasn't so bad."
A screen shot where students discussed auctioning off Black students. CNN obscured parts of this image to remove derogatory language and the names of some of the students.
The district initially described the chat as "cyber bullying" with "racially charged" language in an April 5 letter to parents, but ultimately labeled it "racist" after generating backlash from some Aledo residents.
The students involved are being disciplined, the district said in a statement last week, but could not reveal exactly what that discipline is, due to legal reasons."I know I speak for our entire Aledo community when I say that I am deeply sorry that a few of our students engaged in racial harassment of two of our students of color in a social media chat," a message from the district sent Saturday read. "I am also deeply sorry for the hurt that it has caused the victims and their families. It was totally unacceptable to all of us, and it should not have happened."
Aledo ISD is home to more than 6,000 students, about 78% of whom are White.Some members of the community, including Eddie Burnett, president of the NAACP Parker County, said this moment needs to be a wake-up call for the town."I'm not saying that they are teaching racism (at Aledo), but there's obviously an environment where that flourishes," Burnett told CNN.
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