Alabama lynching
joke. Question: Do any of you think this is FUNNY?
A photo on Snapchat
showed a black high school student in Alabama being 'lynched' with a rope by a
white peer. The rope hangs around
Wade Sturgeon's neck in the photo, while a boy named Jordan grabs the rope.
The boys, who are
friends and students at Curry High School, have since spoken about the
incident, calling it 'stupid.'
Their mothers have
also come forward, addressing the controversy. Samantha
Blackenship was identified locally as Jordan's mother.
She said she's sorry for his behavior, AL.com reported. The mother issued a statement to the website which said: 'I am the mother of the boy in the picture taken in the Curry locker room.
'I want to start out with saying my son is no racist, and I will not tolerate any kind of racist behavior from him. I am dealing with him and his punishment.
She said she's sorry for his behavior, AL.com reported. The mother issued a statement to the website which said: 'I am the mother of the boy in the picture taken in the Curry locker room.
'I want to start out with saying my son is no racist, and I will not tolerate any kind of racist behavior from him. I am dealing with him and his punishment.
'I also want to add
he and the boy in the pic have been friends since elementary school and they
are both where goofing off when they did this.
'My son is young and
definitely did not think about what the consequences of such behavior would be.
He is learning very quickly.' Jordan apologized on
Instagram, AL.com reported, saying: 'We just planned it as a joke
'It was stupid for me
too post something like that in the first place. I just wasn't thinking.'
Carol Spurgeon is
Wade's mother and told WVTM she's disappointed yet no malice was intended by
the photo.
She told the TV
station: 'I know there have been some very negative things said about Jordan
but my son was standing there just the same as Jordan.
'Jordan didn't force
Wade to do it, Wade didn't force Jordan to do it, nobody forced the kid to take
the picture.
'It is something that
happened, it was stupid, it was very ignorant on all three parts but they are
17-year-old kids and they have a lot of mistakes left to make yet.'
Her son Wade also
talked to the news outlet, saying: 'It was just a stupid decision by both of
us, we shouldn't have done it.'
He said: 'We didn't
mean to offend anybody by it, it was just me and him joking around like we
usually do.'
The two boys were
suspended, and are now going to complete senior year at an alternative school,
according to WVTM.
Walker County
Superintendent Jason Adkins said in a statement to the news outlet: 'All
involved, from the two students in the picture to the one that actually took it
have all been disciplined.'
None of this is
funny! And I agree it was DUMB of both of them. What say Ye?
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