“IT’S THE BLACK PEOPLE” Principal’s Racist Remark At Graduation

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'Look who's leaving - all the black people!': Principal shocks with racist comments at high school graduation

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3074872/Look-s-leaving-black-people-Principal-shocks-racist-comments-high-school-graduation.html#ixzz3ZgH7leB5


She says that the entire ceremony was 'tense' and that Gordeuk's racist comment was just the tipping point for herself and most of the other family members in the crowd.
Daily Mail Online contacted both Gordeuk and the school for comment, but did not receive a response Saturday afternoon.
Cole's recollection of events is similar to several from commenters online who say Gordeuk lost control of the ceremony when she skipped over the valedictorian's speech and dismissed the graduating class early.
The valedictorian's mother, who was sitting directly in front of Cole, stood up as the recession music started and waved Gordeuk down saying 'You missed his speech! You missed his speech!'
[Gordeuk then returned to the podium and told the class to come back into the auditorium so that they could hear the valedictorian (who Cole described as a white male) speak.
Upset that some were not heading her orders, Gordeuk snapped at individual members of the audience - including an African-American man who had come up to take a picture of the honor students sitting behind the podium with his iPad.
'I think ya'll owe this young man apology,' Mrs Gordeuk says, referring to the valedictorian. 'Especially that goober who was coming through with that little thing [an iPad] that was so rude where are you, you little coward? Come back here let's talk.'
'Ya'll are among the rudest people I've seen in my whole life,' Mrs Gordeuk continues, while ordering someone in the back to close the doors.
'You people are being so rude to not listen to this speech, it was my fault that we missed it in the program. Look who's leaving - all the black people!'
Following the comment the crowd erupts in anger, and Cole estimates that about two-thirds of the class and their families left the room to go outside - fed up with Gordeuk.
'I've recognized my white privilege since I was nine years old. I grew up on the south side of Atlanta in a predominately black and African-American community. I was deeply offended that that would come out of an educator's mouth. Not only an educator but the founder of the school,' Cole said.
'I can't help but feel that it must be motivated by something...some racist underdone of racist belief system,' Cole said.

She said the statement was especially shocking considering that it was incorrect. According to Cole, the first family to leave was a white female graduate and her family.