White students stage ‘slave auction,’ harass Black child at TN school, lawsuit says


A mother is suing a Tennessee education board after she said school officials allowed a “racially-hostile” environment to continue at her son’s middle school. Erika Qualls’ son, who is an eighth grader at Church Hill Middle School in Church Hill, Tennessee, was repeatedly called a racist slur by white students, subjected to “a barrage of other racial epithets” like “monkey,” shown images of Ku Klux Klan members holding torches and nooses, taunted in a “slave auction” staged by other students, chased and insulted with a stuffed monkey, and shown images of African-American caricatures being stabbed and shot, according to a lawsuit filed on May 24. Qualls’ lawsuit alleges that despite repeated attempts to bring concerns about her son’s treatment to administrators, they consistently dismissed her and tried to shift blame onto her son.

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