Bath school fails to bring justice to mock 'slave auction' culprits

A Black school boy was tied to a lamp post beaten and then subjected to a mock ‘slave auction’ by several white students.

The Police have today confirmed the shocking details concerning the January incident at a Bath school. The Bath Chronicle reports that the perpetrators whipped him with sticks after binding him to a lamppost and used the most profoundly racist and abusive language throughout.

For the this brutal act of deep violent dehumanisation, the School Board overturned the expulsion of the boys and, after a two week suspension have allowed the bigoted perpetrators to return to school alongside the victim. This appalling response from the school governors becomes almost complicit in the barbarity of the incident, by failing to see the enormity of what occurred. One outraged parent from the school stated; “I’ve got a mixed-race son. He’s thinking they’re going to stick up for the white kids but we get in trouble if we do something wrong.”

This school in its inaction has done a disservice, not only in the most obvious way, to the black victim, but also to the attackers. To allow them to continue to be educated and socialise in the same space in which they beat and dehumanised another person is to teach them that extreme violence and racism are only punishable as a minor offence. One of many simple questions arise from this incident; what is the racial make-up of the school board?

Unfortunately the negative decision from the board will ring loud to victim, who alongside trying to recover from the psychological trauma of such an incident will have to see his abusers on a day to day basis.

Adeolu Adebayo