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Graduate's father arrested for blocking Black superintendent from shaking daughter's hand

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.

JPSound , (edited )

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 at 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 hometown’s 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 their’s and their’s alone to bare for their 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.

Kayday ,

This just makes me sad because until today my only association with Baraboo was whimsical childhood memories of the circus there.

frezik ,

Fucking Baraboo

sverit ,

The Sunglasses on basecap. It’s so iconic.

InternetUser2012 ,

Gonna go out on a limb and guess he’s a republikkklown and proud member of cult45.

TheDeepState ,

Why are Yankees racist?

Avg ,

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.

TokenBoomer ,

The pilgrims were religious outcasts; colonialism (Manifest Destiny); slavery; take your pick.

DragonTypeWyvern ,

Wisconsin isn’t Yankee you fake hick.

TheDeepState ,

Why are they racist?

SeaJ ,

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?

GroundedGator ,

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.

SeaJ ,

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.

anon_8675309 ,

Bad dad. You just don’t do that to your daughter.

Bad, bad, dad.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
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blocking black superintendent from shaking daughter’s hand

is something of an understated headline. Looks like he straight up assaulted the superintendent.

Yawweee877h444 ,

Yeah if the roles were reversed it probably would have been worded very differently.

jenny_ball ,
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if it were reversed he’d be on the ground with a knee on his head.

irreticent ,
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*neck

kandoh ,

From a scientific standpoint I’d love to know what was going through the racist dad’s head in that moment

Duamerthrax ,

Too many facebook posts ending with “And Everyone Clapped”.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

In fairness, security dragging that guy off did elicit some applause.

UnpluggedFridge ,

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.

kandoh ,

Ah, so the drain the pool after Sammy Davis Jr swims level of racism

calamity_joe ,

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

adaveinthelife ,

His wife probably made a comment about how handsome the SI is, and he spiraled inside his tiny head.

HurlingDurling ,
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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.

ConstableJelly ,

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.

andros_rex ,

Yep, which is why dad will have no consequences. Whole town is fucked.

Gestrid ,

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.

unreasonabro ,

murkaaaaaa

nifty ,
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I mean, plenty of shitty racists in EU as well

barsquid ,

That sounds like more of an assault than a disorderly conduct.

I cannot imagine being so racist that I would leap on stage to stop a handshake. I also have to wonder at the misogyny, like does he think a handshake will defile his daughter? Must be dozens of delusional ideas just bouncing around in a racist’s head like DVD logos.

Hobbes ,

…. that never perfectly hit the corner. Ever.

TurtleJoe ,
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That sounds like more of an assault than a disorderly conduct.

This is one of those situations where I like to imagine what would have happened if the guy did that to a cop. Likely a litany of charges, including assaulting an officer, and would have had the shit beaten out of him.

j4k3 ,
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And if the father was black and it was a white cop on stage, the father would be dead.

Glass0448 ,

would have had the shit beaten out of him.

It depends on how situation aware the cops are about all the cameras and witnesses. In an ideal case, they’d realize there are a lot of voting community members around them who made the time to attend a ceremony. Not a situation where people will just turn up the volume on their television sets.

Maggoty ,

They’d have shot him. They would have escalated the fight and then shot him if they were losing.

CoffeeJunkie ,

I call bullshit on the claim it’s “because of how bullying cases were handled”. Looks pretty straightforward, racist AF to me.

And even if that were true, or more likely he was a racist dickhead, either way: if he had such a big problem, if he wanted to protest…you don’t have to publicly cross the stage at graduation. Not that he’s smart enough to reason this out. But crossing the stage is a privilege, it is public recognition, it is a community event. The graduate need not be compelled to participate; she could have received her diploma in the mail (like most do, anyway) & stayed home.

Although judging by the girl’s reaction, her father was acting off-the-cuff, alone, and without her knowledge. I’m hoping that’s the case. Racism is fucking stupid.

Dkarma ,

The girl looks confused and mortified. Poor kid just wanted to graduate…

Huckledebuck ,

All he had to do is wait it out one more night and they would never have to see the scary man again. Instead, he announced to the world what is going on in his head and there’s nothing good in there.

Starkstruck ,

Racists are getting way too emboldened

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