In viral video, Kickapoo High teen threatens black students, talks of lynching

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Springfield News-Leader

In viral video, Kickapoo High teen threatens black students, talks of lynching
Claudette Riley, Springfield News-Leader Published 10:05 a.m. CT May 10, 2019 | Updated 1:56 p.m. CT May 10, 2019


A Kickapoo High School student posted a racist rant Thursday aimed at black student athletes.

In the 20-second Snapchat video, an unidentified white male used a string of profanity and racial slurs to warn black students to "stay the (expletive) out of our locker room." He accused them of stealing and adding "we should (expletive) lynch you."

The male, using a clear plastic bottle as a tobacco spittoon, added: "It's a privilege to be in our school. You (expletives) go around like you own the place."

The message was widely shared on social media platforms starting Thursday afternoon and was quickly condemned by Springfield Public Schools and the Springfield NAACP.

Read more: https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/education/2019/05/10/viral-video-kickapoo-teen-warns-black-students-talks-lynching/1162645001/

[The Genealogist]

1. I'm contacting the school system about this disgusting situation

This is my alma mater, and I am appalled

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Missouri? I believe the NAACP warned POC to avoid the state in 2017.

[SWBTATTReg]

6. Yes, unfortunately they did. A total shame. The majority of people in MO are good and I am ...

sick and tired of idiots like this ruining our state's reputation with their foul mouth and language.

[lunasun]

8. You are correct . Even tourist travel advisors mention it along with places like Honduras

https://www.naacp.org/latest/missouri-makes-fodors-no-list-2018-following-naacp-travel-advisory/

[47of74]

10. Yeah my sister moved out of Missouri a couple years ago.

[Dennis Donovan]

11. The whole state was "Green Booked"

[SWBTATTReg]

3. Ahhh...some of our charming and bigoted Missourians in Springfield have been at it again, ...

in the SW corner of MO. This kid, acting out like the irresponsible idiot he is, doesn't realize that his written words are out there for posterity. I hope that his words follows him as they should, and that colleges, future work places, etc. get an idea of what they're getting, should they either hire or allow him into their student body. In the digital age, words will follow you, especially the nasty ones.

What you write and do, does have ramifications now a days, being that in the digital world, words don't disappear.

I am impressed that the school has moved to address this issue rapidly, and I hope that they can address the underlying cause(s) of such hate and racism.

[murielm99]

4. Several states have cities named Springfield.

Where is this one? I found no indication from the article.

[SWBTATTReg]

7. MO. I know the newspaper...

[HuskyOffset]

9. Not sure this is definitive, but article has a bit that says

Robinson said the Springfield NAACP vowed not to share the video but it still "spread very quickly" to other parts of Missouri.

[Stuart G]

24. I thought it was Springfield Illinois.

After a short search, I did find out it was MO. not ILL. But nowhere in the article is that clear. And stories on the internet do not make it clear. We have more Springfields but I didn't find them.

[MasonDreams]

27. Me too, I was happy to discover the cancer had not spread to Illinois

[HuskyOffset]

5. Wow, just . . . wow

I read the referenced article, and it's apparent that someone is off message:

In a series of posts, the unidentified creator of the page alleged "the tables have turned recently and now black people are being racist toward whites and black people are barely getting discriminated against."

This person hasn't gotten the memo that the most discriminated creature on planet earth is the American Heterosexual Christian White Male and that minorities not only aren't being discriminated against *at all*, they're oppressing the hell out of AHCWMs! Why, as one myself, I can barely exist!

Shouldn't be needed, but just to be absolutely clear:

So glad we're living in post-racial America

[LeftinOH]

12. Alma Mater of Brad Pitt...who produced 'Twelve Years a Slave'. n/t

[11 Bravo]

13. Damn, I'd be upset if Johnny Apple Cheeks and the rest of the SCOTUS ...

hadn't hipped me to the fact that racism is no longer a real problem via their decision that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act!

[Gore1FL]

14. I think there is an initiative to give the lower third of Missouri to Arkansas.

The hope is to raise the average IQ of both states.

[Mopar151]

16. That's Horrible!!!!

Worse, they might as well try, it could hardly be lower.

[iluvtennis]

15. Why wasn't the student arrested. The principal said " the disciplinary actions were significant"

The only significant action would be to remove him from the school and have him charged with a hate crime.

[Mopar151]

17. They'd never arrest a white jock in fball season.

If someone at the school grew a spine and called, the cops would find an amazing number of reasons to look the other way.

[iluvtennis]

21. Sad, but true.

[stillcool]

18. according to the article..

this school has had some experience with bullying, etc., Whatever they're doing, it isn't working. What an effed up situation. And why no police?

She added: "Athletes want to know what their protocol is now for the locker room. The student that made that statement (on the video) was specific in talking to black athletes."

Robinson encouraged the Springfield Police Department to investigate and take action. She called the viral video message "a danger to our students, to our community, to our schools."

She said the post ought to be investigated as a possible hate crime.

"What took place can be categorized as a terroristic threat and so we want that to be taken seriously," she said.

Springfield Police spokeswoman Jasmine Bailey said the department is not investigating the incident. "That is being investigated by Springfield school police."

https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/education/2019/05/10/viral-video-kickapoo-teen-warns-black-students-talks-lynching/1162645001/

[marble falls]

19. To really make someone hate you have to start on them young. To feel that entitled.

[iluvtennis]

22. Young kids are innocent, but their family teaches hate at the dinner table. I've went through

a couple of diversity training sessions back in the 90s when I worked for Apple. There were two white women in the session who confessed that hate was drilled into them by their fathers at the dinner table. They were told that the N-word are this and that and Asians are such and such. Essentially brainwashed. It was so eye opening.

The cool thing was that these two women voluntarily took the training sessions cuz they wanted to get to know minorities and get rid of the "programming" their fathers has done.

[Evolve Dammit]

20. Expulsion. Not acceptable.

[Demovictory9]

23. the video

Link to tweet

[Stuart G]

25. This one you will not believe..Cities in U.S.A., with the name of "Springfield"

Wikipedia link: (scroll down until you find cities in United States)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield

United States[edit]
Springfield, Alabama, unincorporated community
Springfield, Arkansas
Springfield, California
Springfield, Colorado
Springfield, Florida, a city in Bay County
Springfield (Jacksonville), Florida, a neighborhood
Springfield, Georgia
Springfield, Idaho
Springfield, Illinois, the state capital of Illinois Springfield metropolitan area, Illinois

Springfield, LaPorte County, Indiana
Springfield, Posey County, Indiana
Springfield, Kentucky
Springfield, Louisiana
Springfield, Maine
Springfield, Massachusetts, the first Springfield settled in America Springfield metropolitan area, Massachusetts, the most populous Metropolitan Springfield Area

Springfield, Michigan, a city in Calhoun County
Springfield, Minnesota, in Brown County
Springfield, Missouri, the most populous Springfield in the United States Springfield metropolitan area, Missouri

Springfield, Nebraska
Springfield, New Hampshire
Springfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey (referred to as "Springfield&quot
Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey (referred to as "Springfield&quot
Springfield/Belmont, Newark, New Jersey, a neighborhood of Newark
Springfield, New York
Springfield, Ohio
Springfield, Oregon
Springfield Township, Pennsylvania (disambiguation)
Springfield, South Carolina
Springfield, South Dakota
Springfield, Tennessee
Springfield, Texas, Jim Wells County
Springfield, former town and county seat of Limestone County, Texas, now part of Fort Parker State Park
Springfield, Vermont Springfield (CDP), Vermont

Springfield, Virginia
Springfield, Albemarle County, Virginia
Springfield (Coatesville, Virginia), an historic home
Springfield, Page County, Virginia
Springfield, Westmoreland County, Virginia
Springfield, West Virginia
Springfield, Dane County, Wisconsin, a town Springfield Corners, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community

Springfield, Jackson County, Wisconsin, a town
Springfield, Marquette County, Wisconsin, a town
Springfield, St. Croix County, Wisconsin, a town
Springfield, Walworth County, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community

[Progressive Jones]

28. This is the reason the name Springfield was used for the town where The Simpsons live...

[Initech]

26. Ah one of Trump's very fine people.