A video showing white high school students in Alabama using racist slurs about blacks and Jews and talking about the Holocaust is posted on social media.
The video shared on Facebook and Twitter shows the students drinking and talking in a venue not on school property.
“F*** n*****s, f*** Jews,” one student says.
“Jews are fine because they’re white,” another says. “We just need the n*****s gone.”
They also talk about putting blacks in concentration camps and waiting until they die off. Another student says: “If the Holocaust never happened, Jews would be running the world right now.”
The teens attend high schools in Hoover, near Birmingham.
“We are exceptionally sad and disappointed that this would either be the attitude of some of our young people or whatever would prompt them to have such conversations,” Hoover Superintendent of Schools Kathy Murphy tells AL.com.
The principals where the teens attend school are discussing what should be done about the students, according to the report. Murphy says any disciplinary action would take into account that the event happened off school property.
— JTA
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