Texas High Schoolers Record Racist Rap, Then Blame Society

Two white high school girls from Grapevine, Texas, have had to write letters of apology to classmates and teachers for a racist rap song they recorded during their freshman year at Grapevine High School.

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In the song, the girls, who were not identified by name, rap about lynching African-American high school boys who find them attractive.

And in the letter of apology, they state:

?At this time in our lives, racism was not the talk of the country nor had we ever witnessed the true power of social media, twitter was still fresh and we had never heard of anyone getting in trouble for posting anything on social media, it was the beginning of this social era.”

Part of the three-minute rap includes the lyrics:

?N*ggas n*ggas n*ggas they always look at me, I want to kill them now, I want to hang them from a tree.?

The song also includes disparaging remarks about Latinos and Asian-Americans.

But while the girls did write the apology letter, they also tried to place the blame for their reprehensible actions on other factors. One girl wrote:

?The song does not portray in any way how I actually feel about people. I am a very open-minded person and I enjoy being part of a diverse family and diverse community. I am being raised to be respectful of all people, cultures and differences. As kids, we hear racist jokes all times of the day,? she said. It’s what we’re around, it’s the jokes we heard.?

So don’t blame us, we just repeated what we heard. One of the girls even tried to say she was the victim in the situation:

?The person I am, the person I will now be remembered as, the person who would do anything to take back the words that have hurt and offended so many has accepted the fact that when people are hurt, they want someone to be held responsible. They need someone punished.?

Yes, and the people who are rightfully being punished are the ones who made this disgusting rap song.

If either one of these girls is seeking sympathy for what they did, they need not look to me for it.