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.
blocking black superintendent from shaking daughter’s hand
is something of an understated headline. Looks like he straight up assaulted the superintendent.
In searching for the video, (already provided in this thread) I amazingly found that this appears to be the same school where a selection of boys from the class of 2018 posed for a gleeful photo of them throwing up the nazi salute.
From a scientific standpoint I’d love to know what was going through the racist dad’s head in that moment
From someone who grew up with a racist father, it was likely a juxtaposition of the handshake with stereotypes of hypersexuality and uncleanliness among black men mixed with sexist ideals of young women and their purity.
What are the odds he has the word “blacked” in his PornHub search history?
01:09:20 if you don’t want to go through that awful site.
Horrifically embarrassed for the graduate.
Her reaction is absolutely predictable for “My dad is always making an ass of himself and decided to even be an ass at my graduation.”
Drinkwater is a funny surname.
Also, that girl’s face tells me she isn’t unfamiliar with how her dad is. Seemed really embarrassed that it was happening but not really surprised. Man, what a dad
