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The father of a Baraboo High School graduate forcibly pulled the district superintendent away from his daughter as she crossed the stage to receive a congratulatory handshake during the school’s graduation ceremony Friday.

The man, who is not being named to protect his daughter’s identity, ran onto the stage just after the girl had been handed her diploma and began working her way down a line of school officials shaking hands.

Before she could get to district Superintendent Rainey Briggs, the man, wearing a white polo shirt and baseball cap, grabbed Briggs by his right arm and pushed him away.

“That’s my daughter,” the man can be heard saying in video of the ceremony by TV43 Baraboo.

Briggs can be heard telling the man, “You better get up off me man. Get away from me bro” as staff working the graduation and three Baraboo police officers including the school resource officer intervened. At one point, a voice can be heard saying, “I don’t want her touching him.”

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[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 70 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Racist. That's the adjective describing the father that's - somehow, miraculously - missing from the quoted excerpt.

[–] ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world 54 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

So the superintendent is the black guy in the video? That makes way more sense, I was thinking the complaints mentioned in the article were sexual or political or something along those lines and was pretty annoyed that there was no elaboration.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's actually missing from the entire article, an article which had the time to mention how there's a group trying to have a school board member recalled (without telling us how big or small the group is, who their members are and what other organizations they're connected to (e.g. Moms for Liberty)), list all of the group's alleged grievances (without looking into whether any of them have any validity), and link to the group's Facebook page (without discussing the prevalence of misinformation on those pages).

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

Lovely. MAGA racists are getting emboldened.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 48 points 2 years ago

Baraboo, Wisconsin.

Superintendent Briggs is black, the man and his daughter are white.

[–] Today@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Followed the Facebook links. There's a lot of infighting in this small school district - major teacher rollover a few years ago and, as it mentions, parents are trying to get rid of the superintendent and school board President. I prefer to think that this is about local school politics than jumping on the racism train. However, this is the school with the Nazi salute photo from a couple of years ago, so ...

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Superintendent is black. These parents are simply racist.

[–] Beetlejuice001@lemmy.wtf 7 points 2 years ago

Recent diplomas being rescinded comes to mind

[–] Llewellyn@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Is being black his only trait?

[–] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Found this while looking around ...

The anonymous donor has pledged additional funds to the district to combat discrimination in Baraboo schools since a photo of Baraboo students giving what appeared to be a Nazi salute in front of the Sauk County Courthouse surfaced in 2018, Vodak said.

https://wiscnews.com/news/local/education/baraboo-school-president-recall/article_462a4f0e-1ed2-11ef-a8a0-87ddc019ec62.html#tracking-source=mp-in-article

Adding this ...

Dasia Banks’ 30-page complaint was filed in federal court on Wednesday and contends that teachers and school officials failed to stop violent and racist bullying and exhibited “deliberate indifference” to the problem when faced with complaints. The suit was previously reported by Wisconsin State Journal, and was sure to bring fresh scrutiny to a district previously embroiled in scandal over a viral photo of students giving a Nazi salute.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/teen-says-nazi-salute-school-in-wisconsin-is-a-cesspool-of-racism-sex-abuse

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

His poor daughter's day of achievement was marred by his stupid-ass behavior. Sucks to grow up under him. Hope she gets lots of therapy and outside support.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

I hope she gets lots of handshakes

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Bet he secretly watches black porn

[–] Beetlejuice001@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 years ago

He should rescind the diploma until she shakes his hand

[–] OwlPaste@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What was the cheering about in the end?

[–] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

If I were to guess, the racist community that cheered when the racist students held up Nazi salutes in front of the courthouse were cheering that a racist dad didn't want his daughter to touch the hand of the black superintendent.