Students at North Texas School Disciplined After Holding Slave Auction on Snapchat

Photo: Shutterstock (Shutterstock)Students at a school in Northern Texas were disciplined after they set up a slave auction game on social media pretending to sell their Black classmates. The incident took place in the Aledo Independent School District, where students at the Daniel Ninth Grade Campus cyberbullied other students based on their race, according to a statement from Superintendent Dr. Susan Bohn.The district is working with law enforcement to address what happened. According to the Star-Telegram, local activists said that a group of students started the online slave auction and provided a screenshot that showed a Snapchat group with names such as “Slave Trade” and another name that the newspaper did not print. But civil rights lawyer S. Lee Merritt published a screenshot on Twitter purportedly from the auction with the words “Nigger Auction,” along with prices that the Black students were supposedly sold for. A student wrote in the snap that one of his classmates “Would be better if his hair wasn’t so bad.”G/O Media may get a commissionEddie Burnett, president of Parker County NAACP, learned about the situation on Sunday and that he will take up the issue at the Aledo school board meeting April 19.“There is no…
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