Students suspended for giving classmate a tampon with n-word on it

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Two Students Suspended For Giving Tampon With N-Word On It To Black Student

This is the type of s#!t that could lead a Black person to bust a “bloody move” on a white person’s face.

Two students at Eleanor Roosevelt High School, one white and one Middle Eastern, have been suspended for giving a Black 9th grader a tampon that had “Ni**ers don’t have rights” written on it according to Yahoo.

Another student witnessed the girls giving the racist hygiene product to the younger student:

“It was blatant racism, pure straight racism. I told the principal all of this.” The student said the message was written on a note inside the tampon’s applicator, then thrown away so the two girls could “get rid of the evidence.”

The school’s principal canceled classes on Monday in order to have “community discussions”. On Tuesday, 80 students staged a sit-in until 3:15pm, hundreds of others attended a meeting organized by Project Reach.

A 15-year-old sophomore student named Jesse DeJesus told NYDailyNews:

“Stuff like this, it happens almost on a daily basis and it goes unheard. It’s not just in this school, it’s in every public school in America,” he said. “It takes for someone to be hurt so badly for action to be taken.”

The Department of Education issued the following statement about how they plan to deal with these incidents:

“Racism and bullying have no place in our schools, and the school investigated this serious incident,” DOE spokesperson Miranda Bardot, tells Yahoo Lifestyle. “Principal Saliani scheduled a meeting to allow students, staff and families to discuss this deeply troubling incident and how the school community can move forward, which will include implicit bias training for all staff and workshops for students in each grade. Eleanor Roosevelt High School is committed to safety and inclusiveness, and will continue to take time for these conversations.”

SOUNDS good. We’ll see.