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.
Bad dad. You just don’t do that to your daughter.
Bad, bad, dad.
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
From a scientific standpoint I’d love to know what was going through the racist dad’s head in that moment
His wife probably made a comment about how handsome the SI is, and he spiraled inside his tiny head.
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.
Ah, so the drain the pool after Sammy Davis Jr swims level of racism
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
Too many facebook posts ending with “And Everyone Clapped”.
In fairness, security dragging that guy off did elicit some applause.
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.
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.
Why are Yankees racist?
Wisconsin isn’t Yankee you fake hick.
The pilgrims were religious outcasts; colonialism (Manifest Destiny); slavery; take your pick.
The baseball team? Idk man, I’d get it if it were the redsox but the Yankees have their stadium in the Bronx, are you sure that guy is a Yankee? Doesn’t look like a baseball player at all.
Gonna go out on a limb and guess he’s a republikkklown and proud member of cult45.
Disorderly conduct? Shouldn’t that be assault?
What are the odds he has the word “blacked” in his PornHub search history?
Better than 50%
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Cortisol is a good chemical that helps you cum hard.
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
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.
In searching for the video, (already provided in this thread) I amazingly found that this appears to be the same school where a selection of boys from the class of 2018 posed for a gleeful photo of them throwing up the nazi salute.
Yep, which is why dad will have no consequences. Whole town is fucked.
Fortunately it doesn’t look like there were no consequences.
No word yet on legal consequences, but the court of public opinion has already sentenced him.
The Sunglasses on basecap. It’s so iconic.
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.
Fucking Baraboo
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.
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
That’s absurd
I assume you’re speaking about how it’s absurd to assault the superintendent in this circumstance, but your wording is concerningly vague
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
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.
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.
