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A northern California high school canceled the rest of its football season after the team enacted a racist and offensive prank. Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Mock slave auctions, racist lessons: How US history class often traumatizes, dehumanizes Black students. The team members involved in the video were kicked off the team for the remainder of the season for violating the school's student-athlete code of conduct, and that left the football team without enough players to compete for the rest of the campaign.

River Valley forfeited the rest of the games on its schedule. In a school email, obtained by the Sacramento Bee , Osumni previously wrote to parents and District members: "I received a copy of a recording of River Valley High School football team members acting out a reprehensible act of a slave auction.

The recording clearly demonstrates that this situation was orchestrated and organized, which underscores my concern that students spent time contemplating this terrible act without the slightest regard that this action is hateful and hurtful. This isn't the first racist and tone-deaf incident regarding a "slave auction. These are not isolated incidents," said Keffrelyn Brown, a professor of cultural studies in education at the University of Texas-Austin, in a interview.

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