Dixon Unified School District Investigating Racist Instagram Post

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Dixon Unified School District Investigating Racist Instagram Post

Dixon Unified School District is investigating a racist Instagram post 00:46

DIXON – The Dixon Unified School District has launched an investigation into a racist Instagram post that allegedly included photos of students and staff.

Superintendent Brian Dolan said the post showed 20 photos of black and biracial students and at least one staff member at John Knight Middle School using a racist term. On the images were written the words “Happy Black History Month to all the monkeys”.

DUSD says the post was written by one of their seventh graders over lunch.

Dolan said in a statement,

Never in my thirty-five years as a student have I seen something so heinous, despicable and heinous coming from one of my students. It is impossible to describe the devastating impact this message will have on members of our school community and on many people outside of it. Despite claims to the contrary, racial hatred and discrimination remain persistent and corrosive forces in our society, and as evidenced today, among Dixon Unified students. It is a shameful, shameful moment for which there is no excuse or explanation. As a leader of Dixon Unified and someone who places a high value on each of our students, I apologize for this message. I also ask that we remember the vast majority of Dixon students who do not think or act in the manner reflected here today. I know they will be part of the love and support of their friends and classmates, and help fight the systemic and overt bias, prejudice, discrimination and hatred that we need to eliminate in Dixon and all around from U.S.

The school says it has identified the student involved, but did not specify what punishment that student faces.

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