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A California family has a bone to pick with their eighth-grader’s school after he was handed a ridiculous suspension for wearing “blackface” at a football game.
The 13-year-old was wearing eyeblack for the game and was ultimately suspended.
J.A., as he is identified in the reports, said that no one said anything to him at the game. It wasn’t until a week later that the principal at Muirlands Middle School informed the family their son was suspended for two games and he was barred from attending future athletic events because the black face paint was viewed as an “offensive comment” with “intent to harm.”
“The only people showing absolute racism right now is the school administrators,” the student’s father Daniel Ameduri told Fox & Friends. “There wasn’t even a real investigation.”
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The family’s attorney, Karin Sweigart, said J.A. was simply wearing “eye black warrior paint” which is common for players and fans at football games.
“And so for them to take an innocent activity of just having, you know, going to a football game and cheering for the other team and out of nowhere, with no evidence, say that this was a hate crime is just a ridiculous leap in logic,” she told CBS 8.
“He did not know what ‘blackface’ was, it was [a] new concept to him. It’s just ludicrous.”
The family’s goal is to get the suspension removed from the student’s record.
