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.
So glad to hear the racist was arrested. Beautiful news!
I feel sorry for his daughter, because she’ll be remembered in the community for having a racist father. I imagine there will be lasting harm from that.
I mostly feel sorry for the man who was attacked, and glad he wasn’t further harmed. I also feel bad for the daughter, but I think it’s sad that most of the comments on the YT video don’t even mention the victim while sympathizing with the daughter.
Both are victims
Even if the community doesn’t hold it against her, and I hope they don’t, she’ll never be able to forget.
He’s probably gonna get free beers for the next month.
it is Wisconsin.
perhaps more pertinently, small town Wisconcin. Baraboo has like 12k. Sauk County has 60k