VIDEO: Alabama school’s racial issue is more about the world the media pretends we live in, not the one we actually live in

A student in Cullman caused an uproar when a video of him shouting “white power” and “kill all the [n-words]” emerged. His mother claims he was mimicking a TikTok video.

Residents were outraged and declared that the school system had to do something.

The problem is that the school system is limited in what it can do to a student in this scenario, and those covering the story had no interest in understanding the context of the video.

Dale Jackson is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 5-9AM weekdays on WVNN and on Talk 99.5 from 10AM to noon.

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