“An apology just doesn’t make things go away,” Dr. Rainey Briggs stated Tuesday.
“The outreach was really to indicate that he, Matthew, understands his mishap in terms of what he did, what he’s caused. He’s remorseful,” Briggs continued. “I took that as some form of apology, but that’s not something I think at this time amounts to a solid apology, from my perspective.
“I don’t think an apology, an ‘I’m sorry,’ makes this go away because there’s a lot of harm that was caused.” The damning footage from the graduation shows Eddy pushing Briggs aside as his daughter was receiving her diploma, saying “I don’t want her touching him.”
From actually reading the story it doesn't appear to be anything racist at all, even though even the article tries to bend it that way like there is no tomorrow
The guy apparently has a personal beef with the super intendant die to something that happened between the super intendant and his daughter.
Sure, the guy is in the wrong here, but i see no racism beyond "well the guy is white, sonhe must be a racist!"
Yes, there are loads of racists out there but just marking anything racist because two races were involved is not helping IMHO
But this is lemmy, so the majority will feel they confidently know exactly why the guy did it, and the rest of us are just dumb. Even though we all had access to the same article, and only us dumb ones read it.
Sounds like a bullied girl that was being assaulted fought back, only to face expulsion for it. Then the superintendent rolled his eyes at the bullying in her hearing.
“He rolled his eyes when I brought up the fact the same thing happened to her and it pissed me off. She was expelled for doing the same thing that was done to her, and nothing was done to the previous people.”
Well, it's a good guess, given the country we live in. Is the bullying stuff corroborated/fact checked?
Edit further I agree, making a public scene like this is not appropriate, regardless of any personal reason. He could have just instructed his daughter to walk right by and not stop.