HUFFINGTONPOST.COM - After two minors from Gainesville High School in Gainesville, Fla.,
posted a nearly 14-minute-long racist rant on YouTube, the girls are "no
longer students at the school," WCJB-TV reports.
Last week, eight police officers were brought to the campus in light
of death threats the girls were receiving in response to their videos.
The videos included comments like, "You can understand what we are
saying, our accents, we use actual words. Black people do not."
Gainesville High School principal David Shelnutt did not go into
detail on the extent of the disciplinary action taken against the girls,
but did tell WCJB that their comments were not welcome at the school.
"There's no place for comments like that, that video here at GHS,"
Shelnutt told the station. "There's no place for that in the Alachua
County Public School System, and my opinion, no place for that in
society in general."
Since the video went viral last week, the girls have experienced
harassment and said they feared for their safety. According to one report by the Gainesville Sun, one of the students involved was hiding out at a relative's house while her mother was at work.
"Our lives have changed totally, 180 degrees," her mother told the paper. "This has made her an adult really quick." click here to read the full article
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