Black students suspended for confronting white classmates over racist Snapchat video

Several Black students at a Florida high school reportedly were suspended for five days after they confronted white classmates involved in a racist video featuring a mock Ku Klux Klan hood and the N-word.However, the white students who appeared in the video have not been suspended, according to Jacksonville’s Channel 4, sparking outrage among parents and others. Black students at Yulee High School in Nassau County reportedly received the video from a classmate on Snapchat. The video shows two white teens, one of them wearing a mock KKK hood. “Hold on, you see that?” one of the teens says in the video, pointing at the camera. “It’s a n*gger.”Channel 4 reported Friday: “A group of Black students who received this video from one of their classmates confronted the two students who appeared in it. Because of that confrontation, parents say those Black students were suspended for five days, but the students who appeared in the video were not suspended. Parents say this is incredibly unfair and students now are planning a protest, starting with tonight’s homecoming football game.” Two of the suspended Black students are members of the football team, and teammates reportedly considered taking a knee in protest during…
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