Several of the Stuyvesant High School students who participated in an offensive rap video targeting a fellow classmate have been suspended, according to other students at the prestigious school. The Department of Education, which is investigating the video, would not confirm the suspensions, but several students tell the Daily News that the teens who made the video are being punished. In case you missed it yesterday, the video, which is no longer on YouTube, showed the boys rapping such lyrics as:
You some whack bitch chillin' in the projects. Mothers jump to fathers like Frogger… Stereotypical black yeah she's kinda loud, but when it's black American day she's not proud I know that you come from the whack town, kinda rich, your try and act too black but your just a white [expletive] in the inside... You black and you so f--- grimy. What'cha gonna do? Call your black squad n----?
"It was incredibly racist," Andreas Petrossiants, a junior at the school, tells the News. "It was meant to be funny but they crossed the line." Freshman Elena Milin adds, "The video makes us look bad. Racism is not a problem at this high school. (The student population as Stuyvesant is 71.6 percent Asian, 24.1 percent white, 2.9 percent Hispanic, and 1.2 percent black, Fox 5 reports.) And one former Stuyvesant student tells us, "Racism was never such a big problem at Stuyvesant. Homophobia was."
The school has popped up on the gaydar in the past, and has made headlines for other sex-related shenanigans. But one wonders—is Stuyvesant more dysfunctional than any other high school, or does the media just love it when the nerds get their noses dirty? And whatever happened to more wholesome hi-jinks, like burning the school down?
