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toronto Wednesday, April 18, 2012 News worth sharing. metronews.ca | twitter.com/metrotoronto | facebook.com/metrotoronto
Teen’s racist rant shocks peers Brampton. Grade 11 student stops going to school after other teens react to her ‘ignorant’ YouTube video
Students at Brampton’s Turner Fenton Secondary School said they were shocked by a YouTube video of a girl from their school making racist comments. EMILY JACKSON/TORstar news service
It may be two minutes she’ll regret for the rest of her life. That’s about the time it took a young Caucasian teen from Brampton to record a YouTube video in which she comes across as a racist. The 16-year-old rants to a camera about how everyone in her high school “is brown,” equates “turbans” with “terrorists,” moans about having to move from Toronto to “Bramladesh,” asks white people to get in touch with her and advises brown people to “go back to your own country.” And now the teen — who made those comments in a recent YouTube-posted video gone viral this week — faces death threats. But her father says his daughter is sorry she made the video, which is “totally out of character,” and that she has struggled with depression and is now in hospital. He wanted to make it plain that he’s very sorry about the content and apologizes on behalf of his family “to anyone who’s been hurt by this video.” Students at Brampton’s
Turner Fenton Secondary School said Tuesday that the teen had been jumped the day before by another student. Teachers had to call police to escort her from the school safely, the students said. Her angry peers said they don’t expect her back at school any time soon. “That was blatantly racist,” said a Grade 10 student during lunch hour. The video seemed to come out of the blue and doesn’t reflect on their school, which has people from all cultures and religions, students said. Everyone gets along, for the most part. torstar news service
Reaction
A group of Grade 10 boys playing football said they didn’t take the video personally, but thought it was “ignorant.” • One joked that he smells
like Axe — not curry.
• “I’m only offended
about the ‘go back to your country’ part,” said one student, 16. “Most of us were born here.”
• The students con-
demned any violence against the teen.