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A California high school has forfeited their remaining football season over a mock “slave auction” video.
River Valley High School didn’t play in their varsity football game on Friday after school administrators became aware of a recording showing some of the teammates performing what appeared to be a mock slave auction on their Black peers. According to KCRA-TV the video showed about a dozen students pointing and yelling dollar amounts at three of their Black classmates who were in their underwear and lined up against the wall. Yeah, what the f**k…
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It’s unclear when the video was recorded, but it’s been confirmed staff at the school discovered it on Thursday ahead of the next day’s game. Immediately, the Yuba City Unified School District took action. Superintendent Doreen Osumi said in an email on Friday the players who participated in the video were kicked off of the team. No numbers were given as to how many players were disciplined — but apparently it was so many the school was forced to forfeit the rest of the season for lack of players after the offending ones were kicked off. Just unbelievable.
Osumi said in her statement the video appeared to be “organized” — the students had planned this out ahead of time. She believes they did this as a “prank” and didn’t realize how “disgraceful” it was:
Just terrible! Why would anyone want to reenact such an awful part of history? It’s disturbing anyone would think something like this is funny…
She also said the school has “a great deal of work to do” when it comes to not only disciplining — but educating — the students:
The team had four games left of their varsity season and all will be
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Academy Awards – has died at the age of 75.Her passing was confirmed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In a statement shared with The Hollywood Reporter, a caretaker of Littlefeather’s said she died at noon on Sunday (October 2), surrounded by loved ones at her home in the Northern California city of Novato. An exact cause of death was not confirmed, however Littlefeather had long been open about her various struggles with ill health.Sacheen Littlefeather, Native American civil rights activist who famously declined Marlon Brando’s 1973 Best Actor Academy Award, dies at 75.
Native American activist Sacheen Littlefeather, whose historic and headline-making surprise appearance at the 1973 Academy Awards was heard around the world, has died at 75 years old. Littlefeather passed away Sunday in the Northern California city of Novato after a years-long battle with breast cancer that had metastasized in recent years, according to . It's been nearly 50 years since Littlefeather — then 26 — took the stage in place of Marlon Brando, who won the Best Actor Oscar for , and delivered a message on Brando's behalf about the mistreatment and oppression of Native Americans.On Sunday, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced her passing, tweeting, «Sacheen Littlefeather, Native American civil rights activist who famously declined Marlon Brando’s 1973 Best Actor Academy Award, dies at 75.»In August, The Academy shared an apology for the subsequent fallout from her act of protest. Academy president David Rubin issued a letter to Littlefeather on the Academy's behalf, praising her speech and the impact it had.«As you stood on the Oscars stage in 1973 to not accept the Oscar on behalf of Marlon Brando, in recognition of the misrepresentation and mistreatment of Native American people by the film industry, you made a powerful statement that continues to remind us of the necessity of respect and the importance of human dignity,» Rubin said of Littlefeather's remarks at the ceremony in the letter.«The abuse you endured because of this statement was unwarranted and unjustified.
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