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One of the students in the video
The principal of Grosse Pointe South is calling "deplorable" a video that began circulating over the weekend on social media that shows students saying blatantly racist things about blacks.
“Unfortunately, over the weekend a handful of Grosse Pointe teens, including three South students, chose to record a video that included offensive, racist statements regarding African Americans,” Principal Moussa Hamka said in an e-mail sent to parents, teachers and students on Wednesday, according to a report by Bill Laitner of the Detroit Free Press.
"Immediately after being made aware of the situation, South administration began contacting students and families (and) making appropriate decisions regarding consequences for those involved, including student separations from school," the e-mail said.
The email went on to say that the majority of students "do not accept and will not tolerate such bigotry," the Freep reports.
The incident comes less than three months after six Grosse Pointe South students were suspended attracted national media attention after posting photos with the N-word sprawled across their stomach, raising questions about racial tension and attitudes in the affluent, mostly-white community.
In the video (see below), students discuss how they would treat black people if they were elected president in the year 2040.
"You need to leave our country," a white, male student says in the video posted on Facebook. "Send them back to Africa."
"So what are you going to do to them in 2040?" someone asks him.
"Segregate," the first student laughs. "They get Maine, North and South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming...New Mexico."
He is then asked how black people will be treated.
"They'll be owned by white people," he said. "White people are going to be the dominance of the country."
"We're going to burn them on sticks," another says.
The first student then suggests that African Americans should be enslaved, branded and traded for things like alcohol. Instead of coffins, he suggests their bodies be placed in a river.
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