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.
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.
From a scientific standpoint I’d love to know what was going through the racist dad’s head in that moment
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His wife probably made a comment about how handsome the SI is, and he spiraled inside his tiny head.
Too many facebook posts ending with “And Everyone Clapped”.
In fairness, security dragging that guy off did elicit some applause.
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.
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
Ah, so the drain the pool after Sammy Davis Jr swims level of racism
Gonna go out on a limb and guess he’s a republikkklown and proud member of cult45.
murkaaaaaa
I mean, plenty of shitty racists in EU as well
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.
Bad dad. You just don’t do that to your daughter.
Bad, bad, dad.
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.
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
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
It’s more likely battery than assault. Battery is just putting hands on. Assault generally needs higher threat level and/or more violent actions.
not “than”, but “and”.
Assault is getting in the way.
Battery is touching him.
(though, as mentioned, laws vary by location, but generally speaking…)
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.
Why are Yankees racist?
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.
Wisconsin isn’t Yankee you fake hick.
Why are they racist?
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.
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.
And if the father was black and it was a white cop on stage, the father would be dead.
They’d have shot him. They would have escalated the fight and then shot him if they were losing.
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.
…. that never perfectly hit the corner. Ever.
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.
Wisconsin. That’s all you need to know.
Baraboo. Fuck Baraboo.
Yeah, looking at the other issues that have come out of this school district, it’s not terribly surprising what happened.
01:09:20 if you don’t want to go through that awful site.
Horrifically embarrassed for the graduate.
Drinkwater is a funny surname.
Also, that girl’s face tells me she isn’t unfamiliar with how her dad is. Seemed really embarrassed that it was happening but not really surprised. Man, what a dad
You can add “&t=1h9m20s” to the end of that URL to take folks straight there.
https://www.youtube.com/live/4bL5zRBns7I?si=Nj2s3lJ4t3o1hxAi&t=1h9m20s
Oh that poor girl. Seeing the confusion, shock, then sadly understanding flash across her face is just sad. This asshole ruined this moment in her life and made it memorable in a completely different, shitty way.
Her reaction is absolutely predictable for “My dad is always making an ass of himself and decided to even be an ass at my graduation.”
‘Why does my daughter never call or visit anymore!?’
You are the hero we need.
Opposite of that girl’s dad.
"That’s the correct spot in the video.
I don’t want him touching the video progress bar!!"
Disorderly conduct? Shouldn’t that be assault?
My god, that level of racism is stunning. I just can’t believe it.
have ya met maga folks? they cray
You can’t believe it, because it’s probably not what happened. The real story is probably stupid and boring. This story however, gets clicks.
What are the odds he has the word “blacked” in his PornHub search history?
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.
I didn’t want to be the first one to say it, but Conservative white men really are obsessed with being cucked by Black men. They seem simultaneously turned on by it, and ready to commit murder over it.
Cortisol is a good chemical that helps you cum hard.
Better than 50%
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
