Wisconsin dad stops daughter from shaking Black School Superintendent's hand

Baraboo Nazi High School, famous for Nazi salute in 2018.

Wisconsin is even trashier than Texas and Florida.

Cross off another state from getting my tourist dollars.

No wonder the Republican National Convention is being held in Wisconsin.

It's perfect for Trump and his MAGATs.

Half of Wisconsin is drunk by noon, so this fits.

I hope the daughter meets the hottest black man alive and marries him.

I hope she doesn't marry him, but just gets pregnant by him.

Also, I hope he's not hot.

What a fucking pig.

Did I miss something? The article doesn’t say why the father acted that way.

Came here to say that, r2. They're all a bunch of fucking alcoholics. It's part of the culture.

Some right thinking person needs to knock the shit out of Dad and convince him to refrain from attending anyone's graduation in the future. What an asshole.

Maybe this story belongs in the 'Let's Be DataLounge High School' thread.

R5. What would be a list of legitimate reasons for doing this? Please provide it.

[quote] Did I miss something? The article doesn’t say why the father acted that way.

You forgot to sign your post "Rose."

He had cooties, R9.

"You don't know where that's been!"

[quote] Did I miss something?

Yeah, r5, a brain.

What a cunt!

Jesus!

[quote] Wisconsin is even trashier than Texas and Florida.

[quote]Cross off another state from getting my tourist dollars.

I wasnt intending to go to Wisconsin anyway R1..... but what the hell is there that anyone would want to see?

And what the fuck is wrong with this guy (the father)?

Lemme guess, r5, we shouldn’t be quick to judge because there must be more to the story?

[quote] Did I miss something? The article doesn’t say why the father acted that way.

Everybody seems to have decided it's racial. My first thought was to wonder if that principal had a reputation for chasing the underage girls.

Slow news day.

His daughters name will eventually be leaked and she'll suffer for his ignorance and sheer stupidity. Thanks, dad!!!!!!

Sometimes you just can’t help having a stupid parent.

01:09:25

The news media is desperate for a race riot.

[quote]what the hell is there that anyone would want to see?

The Green Bay Packers. And DL's own Della, who has never struck me as a racist.

But this dumbass father is sure making the rest of the state look bad. I would have been afraid he was going to assault someone on stage. People are nuts these days.

Daddy Dumbest probably works part-time for his brother-in-law's meth operation, while the black man is the superintendent of schools, so who's racially superior, asshole?

OMG R22 that poor girl looked confused and mortified at what her father did.

I feel so bad for her.

What's wrong with people? I still cannot fathom at times how racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia exists in 2024.

[quote] The news media is desperate for a race riot.

You're right.

It's so much better that we let ugly bigotry go unchecked, so that no one will ever know about this horrible asshole.

Luckily, the school got it all on video, and more importantly, they LEFT IT THERE for all the world to see.

He ruined graduation for all those kids and families.

R28 = hysterical frau

The only person to blame is the asshole father who felt emboldened enough to walk up on stage, grab the superintendent like HE didn't belong there, and mortify his daughter.

totally, what a jackass

r2 You're wrong! Lunch time begins at noon so we are drunk by 1:00.

[quote] Superintendent gets restraining order against dad who pushed him off stage so he couldn’t shake daughter’s hand

The superintendent, who was pushed away by a father to prevent him from shaking his daughter’s hand during a high school graduation, has filed for a restraining order against the parent.

The shocking moment took place during the Baraboo High School graduation ceremony in Wisconsin on Friday when the father stormed the stage and pushed the superintendent out of the way, yelling, “I don’t want her touching him.”

Footage of the graduation captures last week’s incident, showing the man, whose identity has not been reported to protect his daughter, walking onto the stage as his daughter shook school officials’ hands.

As she approached Superintendent Rainey Briggs, who is Black, the man jumped on stage, grabbed the superintendent by his arm, and dragged him away from his daughter.

“That’s my daughter,” the man says, according to the ceremony footage.

“You better get up off me, man,” Briggs, who was hired in 2021, can be heard replying, as they went out of shot of the camera.

Briggs is now seeking a restraining order against the parent. According to Wisconsin News, a temporary order was filed Monday, with Dane County Circuit Judge Nia Trammell ordering the man to have no contact with Briggs pending a hearing on 14 June.

In the restraining order obtained by WMTV, Briggs wrote that the man “put both of his hands on me to push me out of the way”.

He wrote that the father then said, “You are not going to touch my (expletive) daughter.”

Briggs wrote that he then “created space” and told the parent to “get your hands off me”.

The father “began to push and pry at me, and I again put my hands out”, he added, saying it took place in front of two to three thousand people.

Three Baraboo police officers, including the school resource officer, were part of a group that intervened in the situation, local outlet WiscNews. Officers then escorted the father off the school property.

Except that other parents said this had nothing to do with race.

Apparently the man's daughter was bullied by her classmates, and the superintendent refused to help her.

Sometimes it take a while for a story to reveal itself.

I haven't read through the thread or seen the video. Can anyone do a tl;dr? Is this a racist incident or is there another reason for this and people are assuming racism because of that class photo from a few years ago?

Just click on the link at R26.

It takes you right to the incident.

Did anyone else expect that the daughter was six and graduating from kindergarten? Why on earth would he have to protect his HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE daughter from a - gasp - a negro?

And she’s probably 18, so let’s release their names! Why protect a legal adult, even if she’s barely one?

Also, what asshole dresses like a bro for his daughter’s graduation?

[quote]And she’s probably 18, so let’s release their names!

I'm sure social media has already ID'd her, that hair is pretty distinctive.

Weird Wisconsin people. They’ll kill their kids but won’t shake hands with black people

[quote]I wasnt intending to go to Wisconsin anyway [R1]..... but what the hell is there that anyone would want to see?

Wisconsin was the setting for "Happy Days," "Laverne & Shirley," "Step by Step," "Picket Fences," "That '70s Show," and "The Young and the Restless."

Hello Wisconsin....!!

Smell our Dairy Air.

Why would the school superintendent be expected to handle kids picking on other kids? That's bullshit.

Somehow Dad didn't have a problem with anybody on that stage except the black guy. Hmm, I wonder why.

[quote]R16: And what the fuck is wrong with this guy (the father)?

It comes across as a case of classic, old fashoned white supremacy, with its obsession with white purity and terror of miscegenation (see 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑜𝑛𝑦, below). He probably believes that potential genetic contamination can occur from something as simple as a handshake.

(DL weirdly placed this reply on another thread. No idea what happened.)

In Wisconsin they gave us some cheese.

Doesn't the dad realize that Mandingo has been fucking Snow White up the ass since her Freshman year?

[quote]Wisconsin was the setting for "Happy Days," "Laverne & Shirley," "Step by Step," "Picket Fences," "That '70s Show," and "The Young and the Restless."

Also, movies like DAWN OF THE DEAD, BRIDESMAIDS, THE PRINCE AND ME, THE GREAT OUTDOORS, and LARS AND THE REAL GIRL,

In LOVE ACTUALLY, one of the British guys dreams of going to Wisconsin, because he hears that's where all the hot chicks are, and eventually gets there by the end of the film.

That recent, popular, Netflix series about Jeffrey Dahmer with Evan Peters sparked interest in Wisconsin.

Also, Ed Gein, the inspiration for PSYCHO and THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, lived and died there.

[quote] Except that other parents said this had nothing to do with race. Apparently the man's daughter was bullied by her classmates, and the superintendent refused to help her.

Yet after the real story comes out the race baiting posts continue, and few who saw the race accusation news stories will ever see the 𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 so the truth won't matter at all.

Mission accomplished.

This has to be MORE than simply racism. I mean...I don't care how racist you are. Who the ENTIRE fuck would do that at their daughter's graduation just because she's about to shake a Black SUPERINTENDENT's hand? Something customary at every graduation ceremony ever.

That's extreme even in today's environment. ALSO? A restraining order?

Nah, I ain't getting Occam's razor here.

I somehow doubt that stories about Dahmer and Gein are what's driving a population boom in Wisconsin.

If the father thought the superintendent had mistreated his daughter, why did he allow her to go? Did he actually think the superintendent wasn't going to be at the high school graduation? Either way, the father acted out and behaved like an asshole in front of the entire class and their families.

[quote] Except that other parents said this had nothing to do with race. Apparently the man's daughter was bullied by her classmates, and the superintendent refused to help her.

The superintendent told police that he didn't know who the parent was and hadn't had any previous interaction with the parents or daughter:

During the interview, the report says Dr. Briggs told officers he didn’t know who the parent was until a few days after the incident. He recalled one instance where the parent’s child was disciplined in school, but Dr. Briggs said he had no interaction with them or the parents. Dr. Briggs told officers he “has no idea why (the parent) reached the way he did.”

R49 you mean the liberal media.

[quote]I somehow doubt that stories about Dahmer and Gein are what's driving a population boom in Wisconsin.

R51 no, but they have inspired YouTubers and TikTokers to visit the state and make content about them.

I was born in Wisconsin. But I didn't grow up there, thank god.

I love how much this story has captured DL's imagination. I wanted to comment at first, but refrained myself from doing so because I juts had this feeling there was more to it, and now here we are. As a rule, people aren't this brazenly racist, especially when the cameras are rolling.

Is there anything the mainstream media can’t make racial?

‘The penguins in Antarctica are exhibiting the side effects of climate change, how is this affecting the blacks in Detroit… story below’

R34, if his daughter was being bullied, then the principal and vice principal were the ones to blame for not helping her, yet the father has no problem letting her share their hands. He also had no problem humiliating his daughter in front of two thousand plus people, including her friends, instead of letting her enjoy the moment she had been waiting for for four years. Why didn't he give that reason in the moments after his arrest when he had a chance to air his grievance to everyone?

Is this Whitney Wisconsin's dad?

Are these the same people who said that the raised right arm salute had nothing to do with Nazis?

This asshole told authorities that he had pre-planned it because he and his daughter didn't like the Superintendent. He doesn't give a reason but says he's sorry in retrospect for humiliating his daughter and ruining her day. You'd think, since he pre-planned it, he would have thought about the embarrassment to his daughter but apparently, that didn't occur to him until after his arrest.

[quote] refrained myself from doing so because I juts had this feeling there was more to it, and now here we are. As a rule, people aren't this brazenly racist, especially when the cameras are rolling.

Well this may be true, but as long as the reasons remain so vague, racism might turn out to be the reason. Dad said he and his child don't like the superintendent, but offers absolutely no reason why not, and so who knows? The superintendent says he really has no knowledge of this guy and no idea what is bugging him. Not clear the girl herself actually has a grievance, since we only have Dad's vague comments on this whole thing.

Dad's been ID'd.

It wouldn't have happened if the superintendent was white.

[quote]The report says the parent told the police officer he and his child “have had past issues with Rainey and dislike him.” It goes on to say the parent “wanted to prevent Rainey from having the satisfaction of shaking” his child’s hand, “so he went onto the stage to prevent that from happening.”

Funny, when I graduated from high school we shook the hand of every official on the stage including those with whom we had disagreements. It's called being a grown-up. Sometimes you have to be cordial to people you don't like and/or respect, and if your — or your father's — feelings are so strong, your only choice is to not attend the ceremony at all or participate in it fully.

R64, you're right, we only have dad's comments that offer little reason to engage in this behavior. The superintendent says he didn't know who this guy was until after the incident, so if there was any interaction between them prior, and it was sufficient to warrant the father charging the stage, the superintendent would have surely known him or at least why the lunatic was approaching him. However, under no circumstances does any prior interaction justify the parent putting his hands on the superintendent. It is only by the grace of the superintendent that the father is not in the hospital.

And it's not exactly shocking that the father and daughter were identified. I clicked on the school's youtube link and went to a few seconds before the 1:09:25 mark and heard them announce her full name including even her middle name just as dear old dad appears to make himself look a fool and embarrass his daughter.

And according to that Xitter link @R65, the situation was that the daughter was the bully in the affair in question and the father was upset that she was held to account. Hardly surprising for someone who fits the description of any random MAGAt... accountability for thee, but not for me or my crotchfruit.

[quote] he “wanted to prevent Rainey from having the satisfaction of shaking” his child’s hand

I can’t imagine it would have meant that much to him.

Not only did he humiliate his daughter and ruin her day, but she had now been exposed as a bully. Great job Dad.

My guess is that she was caught bullying and told she couldn't graduate but after an argument between the administration and the parent, the superintendent was brought in and he had some stern words and took disciplinary actions against the girl... and the father thought it was too harsh for the offense. But in the end, she was allowed to graduate with her peers; the father didn't want her to shake the superintendent's hand because he felt the superintendent was unduly in the position of authority that he is over his daughter.

Pure speculation on my part, but the super probably required the girl to formally apologize to her victims in order to graduate and the father did not like that a black man was telling his daughter what to do. That the father went after the superintendent rather than the principal or others on the stage who were probably more responsible for holding her accountable is telling. When you realize that this is the same school where they had the Nazi saluting issue a few years ago, the pieces start to fit together.

It was a bad look with racist undertones. It spoiled the ceremony for hundreds of kids and parents, and it adds to the school's poor reputation.

Dad is a dumb redneck. Hardly surprising.

[quote] people who said that the raised right arm salute had nothing to do with Nazis?

Much like the recovery of artwork stolen by Goering it's overdue to take back America's Pledge of Allegiance salute. Even Wagner's music was reclaimed. Why let the Nazis win this one.

This behavior is abhorrent. When I went to college in Milwaukee, Wisconsin was a very liberal state. I recall some legislation passing that was favorable to sexual orientation protection. Then Paul Ryan woke up one day ….

There were a handful of teachers, superintendents and principals I didn't like over the years, but I would still be civil enough during a commencement event to shake their hand if it were extended.

I also vote yes on this incident being racist inspired.

R73 Yes, the racists who kept a low profile in the past now feel emboldened by the likes of Paul Ryan, Scott Walker and Donald Trump to be outwardly racist now. This along with the prior Nazi salute by students in 2019 at Baraboo HS confirms that the racists and bigots are acting out with impunity now.

[quote]Who the ENTIRE fuck would do that at their daughter's graduation just because she's about to shake a Black SUPERINTENDENT's hand?

Oh, I dunno, maybe a parent who raised his child to use the Nazi salute?

R76 Nah, I doubt even that kind of parent would do it. This seems...personal.

[quote] Sometimes it take a while for a story to reveal itself.

Your feeble attempts to spin this story have been duly noted

“If Defacto were heterosexual”

I would always see the sign for Baraboo driving between Chicago and Minneapolis. It's not far from Wisconsin Dells.

I STILL don't get it after reading R78. Why focus on the SI instead of the policy enforcers?

I guess it depends on who you believe here but if we take the father's explanation to the police that it had something to do with the previous dislike of the man that really it just feels like this is way overblown. Like what's the guy really afraid to go to work on the following Monday?

On three separate occasions I've been targeted and violently attacked because people either thought or knew I was gay and luckily avoided serious injury but it didn't prevent me from going to work or living my life normally just a little more leary. But maybe all the time I've had in my life has made me more resilient than normal people I don't know..

See, MAGA and affiliates keep forgetting its not about YOU. Poor girl deserved better.

Magas are insane.

There is NO possible justification for that father's behavior. None.

[quote]R83: I guess it depends on who you believe here but if we take the father's explanation to the police that it had something to do with the previous dislike of the man that really it just feels like this is way overblown.

Yeah, but why would we do that, unless we were looking hard for a way for this to 𝑛𝑜𝑡 be about racism? Racism is the explanation that would have had the most negative consequences, potentially lasting for years. Matt Eddy and the people advising him had about four days to come up with an explanation taking it away from brazen, Klan-style racism, by making it out to be instead a 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 grudge. But this is news to Superintendent Rainey Briggs, who does not recall any prior interaction with Eddy.

IMO, Eddy is an old fashioned, classic white supremacist who, in our current right-wing political climate, thought he could get away with offering an openly racist public slight to a black school official, whom he thought would contaminate his daughter's white purity with a handshake. (See R45.)

And the usual right wing suspects here on the board are attempting to 'Rittenhouse' this whole thing, to excuse it and blow past it.

Drunk father acts like a drunk at his daughter's graduation. How weird!

[QUOTE]Poor girl deserved better.

Did you miss the part about her getting expelled, not suspended, but EXPELLED. That's pretty damn serious.

[QUOTE]According to the school resource officer who filed the report, Eddy was remorseful only for his daughter’s sake, and the resource officer thought that Eddy’s actions had been pre-planned.

Drunk fuck. What a great legacy the girl has, being abusive enough to get expelled from school and have her asshole father double down for her.

Bullying, cyber-stalking racist bitch.

[quote]Apparently the man's daughter was bullied by her classmates, and the superintendent refused to help her. Sometimes it take a while for a story to reveal itself

apparently the story is that the parents are assholes