This footage shows a blonde, white Michigan mother allegedly repeatedly using the N-word and other racial slurs during a school board meeting.
The incident took place in Grosse Pointe, which is a small town in Wayne County, in the US state of Michigan, on Monday, 24th January.
The woman, who has not been named, has reportedly outraged netizens after the footage was shared online.
She allegedly repeatedly uses the N-word and appears to be complaining that her son was kicked out of school for using it in a conversation on social media with black children.
The woman said: “I have two young white boys, one of which got in trouble for saying the N-word on Snapchat.”
During her rambling tirade, she also said that her child’s “dark-chocolate auntie got him into ‘Straight Outta Compton’.”
‘Straight Outta Compton’ is an Oscar-nominated 2015 film about the lives of famous rappers such as Ice Cube and Dr. Dre, and how they revolutionised hip-hop culture and became wildly successful after growing up on the “mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles”.
She said: “So my boy got ‘Straight Outta Compton’, he’s into all the old-school hip-hop… And says in parody on Snapchat, which essentially got him kicked out of South [High School] for four to 10 days.”
She added: “My address was put out there, we were threatened, and why? Because he said [the N-word]. I’m sorry, this happens to be in every song. The FCC, the Jon Connors, the who’s who are in charge [N-word]… basically are allowing this and our kids…”
She is then interrupted by a board member who seems to take issue with her language. She then apologises, saying “I’ll watch it, I’m sorry, I’m sorry”.
She then said: “They really are trying to victimise our kids. When that happened to my son… it’s just disgraceful what they do and the bullying on social media and through the school system is not cool.”
A board member then told the woman that her three minutes were up and the footage ends.
A board member named as Margaret Weertz reportedly addressed the slurs a few minutes later, saying: “In my seven years on the board, I’ve never heard anyone speak in the audience like tonight.”
She added: “I’ve never heard the N-word used in front of our colleagues here, and this is very upsetting to me… We need to be able to talk about different opinions, different politics, whatever. But we don’t disparage people. We don’t use slurs of any kind – ethnic, racial, anything. And I’m just upset and I can’t let this keep going without saying something.”
It is currently unclear if the incident is being investigated.
The town of Grosse Pointe has gone down in popular culture as the setting for the 1997 film ‘Grosse Pointe Blank’, starring John Cusack and Minnie Driver, in which the former plays an assassin who returns to his hometown to go to his high school reunion.
