Schools
Controversial Video Shows Alabama Students Making Racist Remarks
The Hoover high-school students in the video laugh as they deliver expletive-ridden, racist and anti-Semitic rants.
A group of white Alabama students from Hoover were captured on video last weekend off campus making racist remarks that included,“Fine, we just need n----rs gone," “Without the Holocaust, what would the world be like? Jews would run the world," and "F--k n----rs, f--k Jews." The video was shared on Twitter Sunday by Mallory Moore (@MMoorw) and has since been viewed more than 1.2 million times. WARNING: The video contains graphic language.
so this is how students at @SpainPark High School in Hoover, Alabama act? pic.twitter.com/CMOjCVJZlM
— MALLORY MOORE☆★☆ (@MMoorw) March 4, 2019
One of the students in the video was Mackenzie Stewart, whose father Gordon is owner of Hoover Toyota. Gordon Stewart confirmed his daughter's identity in the following statement tweeted Monday afternoon.
Hoover School Superintendent Kathy Murphy confirmed that some of the students in the video attend Spain Park High School in Hoover.
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“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," Murphy said, according to al.com.
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