Blackface articles
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California High School Students Expelled For Blackface Accusations Awarded $1M In Lawsuit
During the uprising of the Black Lives Matter protests following the killing of George Floyd and racial injustice, the photos resurfaced, going viral.
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Two expelled Bay Area high school students awarded $1 million in 'blackface' lawsuit
Two former students of a Mountain View high school were awarded $1 million and tuition reimbursement after they were expelled for wearing acne face masks, which were interpreted as "blackface," and sued. A Santa Clara County jury sided with the former Saint Francis High School students who claimed the district was in breach of an oral contract and did not give them due process before expelling them in 2020 for photos that were three years old. The jury rejected the students' other claims,...
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Students expelled over bogus 'blackface' claims just taught the school a valuable lesson worth over $1 million
A pair of 14-year-old boys donned acne face masks along with a friend in August 2017. Realizing they looked "silly," they decided to take a selfie — having no idea that a mob of thin-skinned ideologues might jump to conclusions years down the road. The photo resurfaced in June 2020. It was immediately seized upon as an example of the racism that was supposedly everywhere in the aftermath of the deadly Black Lives Matter riots. Rather than launch a proper investigation, which would have...