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.
Direct link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSdKXd_SglA
God, I wish normal YouTube links just worked with my revanced
You gotta disable the original youtube app.
So, I’m from Baraboo. Though I haven’t lived there in well over 10 years now, I still have friends and family who reside there still. The day after this happened, the video was already making its rounds in our various discord servers, getting texts from family members with the original video link and it was all around big deal. Everyone was fucking pissed at this guy and there were soooo many people in my circles that wanted to see him named, shamed and royaly buttfucked by the court of public opinion. It didn’t take long at all for someone to go, “hey, I know that guy. He works as so and so” and I’m happy to see that the cat is out of the bag here. It seems he has been fired. His employer is well aware at this point and have scrubbed all mention of him from their website.
The one and only way to unfuck my hometowns garbage residents is to hang them out to dry in public and I’m glad this is national news. When someone wants to pull some racist shit, let it be known that we’re gunna make sure their racist bullshit will be put on display for all the world to see and the consequences shall be yours and yours alone to bare for your stupid bullshitery. Baraboo is such a cute little town but GODDAMN some of these motherfuckers are an embarrassment to our town, our state and our county.
This just makes me sad because until today my only association with Baraboo was whimsical childhood memories of the circus there.
The article also mentions that it may have happened because the father was unhappy with how the superintendent had dealt with the daughter being bullied.
If that’s the case he picked a pretty bad time, place, and method of dealing with it.
If that was the case then he really hadn’t thought of the optics of this.
“I was unhappy with how he was a black guy when dealing with it.”
-the father probably.
I guarantee you he did not say “black guy”.
You’re right, he probably said African American.
Gentleman of color
Urban citizenUrbanized American.Urban yoot, an older one.
Local station News 3 claimed that social media comments say that the father was angry at the way the district handled bullying issues related to his daughter.
“Social media comments” = some redditors making shit up because they can’t admit that racism exists.
I was leaning more towards social media comments = other racists doing damage control
It doesn’t matter the source. Could be Facebook friends of the racist. A school superintendent does not handle bullying issues other than setting a general policy, being in the loop for expulsion/lawsuits, and firing negligent principals. It’s horse shit however you slice it. I think I met a superintendent once or twice.
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? 🤔
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.
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
Thank you for being one of the only people to show they actually read the article. You can remove black from the headline and this changes how everyone will react. It’s hard to tell if it’s racially motivated or he and this guy have had beef and he didn’t want the guy in the video/picture they were gonna hang on the wall.
From a scientific standpoint I’d love to know what was going through the racist dad’s head in that moment
The guy is probably racist but to be fair, I never saw anything clearly saying it was racially motivated. It was framed that way, but it also said this
Local station News 3 claimed that social media comments say that the father was angry at the way the district handled bullying issues related to his daughter.
Otoh he’s dressed head to toe in white.
His wife probably made a comment about how handsome the SI is, and he spiraled inside his tiny head.
Too many facebook posts ending with “And Everyone Clapped”.
In fairness, security dragging that guy off did elicit some applause.
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.
This is my opinion too. I dont have racist parents (anymore than anyone can be said to have some degree of inherent racism we try hard to be mindful of and eliminate as we become more aware), but I did grow up around a lot of racists. I was always surprised that people I knew, even ones who had black friends and were otherwise fine towards other races, would get really weird about a white woman and a black man having some sexual relationship.
Then the guns came out and it was all kinds of horrific slurs towards the black man and the white woman both. I specifically remember the common understanding for these people was that a white woman was “ruined” beyond repair after being with a black man. Even when I was young, it just screams of an outrageous level of insecurity
Ah, so the drain the pool after Sammy Davis Jr swims level of racism
That poor kid, I trully feel for her since this day was a huge deal and her Racist dad just permanently stained it for her, on top of the embarrassment that girl had with her peers.
blocking black superintendent from shaking daughter’s hand
is something of an understated headline. Looks like he straight up assaulted the superintendent.
Yeah if the roles were reversed it probably would have been worded very differently.
if it were reversed he’d be on the ground with a knee on his head.
*neck
Disorderly conduct? Shouldn’t that be assault?
What are the odds he has the word “blacked” in his PornHub search history?
Wtf
Wtf wtf
Just seems like such a weird thing to say
it’s not weird at all. it’s completely likely. Conservatives tend to project.
what they claim to hate, they usually are.
Alright okay, I get it now. But it’s still (imo) eh, because it calls back to the “gay haters are gay” thing which I don’t think is great. Do you get what I mean?
I’m sorry that reality isn’t to your liking. Would you like to speak to a manager about a refund?
I mean it’s sorta gay hating meme. But if that’s fine with you
Better than 50%
I didn’t want to be the first one to say it, but Conservative white men really are obsessed with being cucked by Black men. They seem simultaneously turned on by it, and ready to commit murder over it.
Cortisol is a good chemical that helps you cum hard.
This whole “all the homophobes are closeted gay men|all the racists secretly fetishize black men” thing is reductive, unrealistic, and unproductive. This dude is gross as fuck and I’m glad he’s getting charged with something at least, but chocking these things up to underlying latent sexual urges is weird and doesn’t solve anything. I’m going to pivot to homosexuality as it think it’s a clearer example now: yes there have been a number of bigots who have turned out to be closeted gays in denial, but concluding from that that all bigots are closeted muddies the water and prevents us from tackling the real root causes of bigotry and, frankly, makes “our side” (for lack of a better term) seem unnecessary sexually-obsessed.
It’s a distinct pattern, and taking them seriously does nothing for their condition.
I wish the Headline was more accurate.
Reading the story, he wasn’t arrested for blocking a handshake, he started forcibly dragging the superintendent to the back of the stage
That’s also called assault. Even blocking the hand would have been assault.
It’s more likely battery than assault. Battery is just putting hands on. Assault generally needs higher threat level and/or more violent actions.
assault and battery are both vaguely termed legal definitions that depend on what state you’re in.
in MN, there’s no legal definition for battery, with assault being defined with multiple levels ranging from ‘mere’ threats through “poked me on the arm” to beating the shit out of someone.
In WI, where this happened, it seems they’re the opposite with the only mention of ‘assault’ be related to sexual assault. and battery being similar to MN’s assault charges. Though, I only took a cursory look through their laws.
That’s absurd
If you did the same to a police officer you can be sure they’d charge you with assault, after taking you to the ground and pummeling you no doubt.
Well yeah, but, they are above the law
I assume you’re speaking about how it’s absurd to assault the superintendent in this circumstance, but your wording is concerningly vague
Battery.
Oh agreed it’s still could be a crime, but the headline makes it sound like all he did was block a handshake, when really he did a lot more
Bad dad. You just don’t do that to your daughter.
Bad, bad, dad.
murkaaaaaa
I mean, plenty of shitty racists in EU as well
Local station News 3 claimed that social media comments say that the father was angry at the way the district handled bullying issues related to his daughter.
I don’t buy that. She seems surprised and embarrassed. And I would think you would have an issue with the principal rather than the superintendent.
Also, whose social media comments? His? Random people?
Not saying it’s justified to bully anyone, but maybe the fruit has rotted with the tree.
A more hopeful part of me believes that she’s been saddled with a toxic family and has suffered for it. And now she’ll be able to escape and be free.
I tend to think the latter considering she at least had the social intelligence to just GTFO of there after putting her hand on her forehead in embarrassment.
Racists are getting way too emboldened
Fucking Baraboo
Wisconsin. That’s all you need to know.
Yeah, looking at the other issues that have come out of this school district, it’s not terribly surprising what happened.
