I (17m) am a white guy who used to a mostly black school. This story happened last year. The Principal (51m) was African American, and the class-clown (16m) was also African American. The Class-clown loved insulting the principal in very racial ways, particularly called him a “monkey” and a “jgaboo.” During last February, the principal was showing us a video from the 1960s of a white man throwing acid in a pool filled with black people to get them out. Every time the acid would hit one of the people in the video, the class-clown would scream as if he was the one being hit. It was clearly insensitive but many people were trying to avoid laughing. Eventually, one of the people in the video had acid thrown directly on them instead of just through the water. The class-clown screamed “Please master, I don’t want to pick cotton anymore. Please give me another job.” The principal stopped the video and said “class-clown, you think you’re funny to avoid the fact that you’re insecure about your future. You’re not funny.” Everyone in the class started to gasp and laugh. The class-clown got up from his desk and got into the principal’s face and said “and you think you are smart, principal. But you are not smart. Because black people are not smart. You are a jgaboo” without saying a word, the principal raised his hand and hit the student in the face. Was he the asshole?

PS: I understand this story sounds unbelievable because of how stereotypically racist it is, but I promise I am telling the truth. This isn’t a troll.