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.
I mean, that’s what he said.
But he didn’t care about the white principal…
And he didn’t just stop a handshake, he bullrushes the guy off the stage.
You have no proof except wishful thinking and circumstance though? 🤔
Superintendents don’t really get involved with things like bullying or discipline unless some felony level laws have been violated. That’s something handled at the school level
Then why specifically the superintendent? Even if this was a bullying issue with an unsatisfactory conclusion, there’s no way he would have engaged with the superintendent of the district without engaging with the principal first. They would both have failed to resolve the problem, so why would he have gone after the superintendent specifically and left the principal there to shake his daughter’s hand?
And, of course, the other issue is, even if that was true, that doesn’t make what he did OK. He’s marginally less shitty by virtue of not being openly racist, but he still made sure that his daughter’s last memory of high school is him getting arrested for assaulting the district superintendent and embarrassing her in front of the entire graduating class and their families.
Yeah but my issue is with the fact that people immediately jump on the racism train. But there’s still no proof. The info leads to the conclusion that the guilty party in his daughter’s bullying was the guy he assaulted, don’t know why people are rioting over the fact that he didn’t assault someone else?
It’s like make-believe racism.
Because even a moment’s consideration will tell you a situation where the district superintendent and only the district superintendent is responsible for poor handling of a disciplinary situation is extremely fucking unlikely.
You are going out of your way to give a psychotic parent who assaulted a school official benefit of the doubt that he has not earned.
Psychotic parent? Yes. Agreed.
But not racist. I don’t feel like not calling non-racists racists is actually “going out of my way to defend them”. In fact, I feel like the opposite is true when people try to push a false narrative.
Again, you’re giving massive benefit of the doubt by assuming the psychotic parent is not racist and that he’s telling the truth about the bullying situation, especially when his actions don’t seem to match his words.
Just because he says he’s not racist, doesn’t mean he’s not racist. And his actions look pretty damn racist.
Right, but not knowing doesn’t give the right to take either stance on whether he is or isn’t racist. You’re coming from an angle of guilty until proven innocent though.
But what he’s guilty of is assault, not racism right now (I’m honestly not even sure if racism is a crime in the US, so just take it as a way of phrasing this).
I’m not defending him because I think he’s right, but the mob mentality was going pretty hard in this chat…