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Now, moving on, I want to talk about a story that broke on Facebook on Friday.

And I'm talking about an incident that took place at Fernandina Beach High School.

And I first came across the post post.

Somebody shared that a parent first posted about this, and I'll read a little bit of it to you from this parent tonight.

Our Andrew Jackson High School girls volleyball team played Fernandina Beach High School, and what our student athletes and families witnessed from the stands was, was absolutely disgusting and unacceptable.

During the game, several Fernandina Beach students were holding up a black baby doll while making racial slurs, chants, and gestures directed towards our players.

Then when one of our players fell and was hurt on the court, Fernandina Beach students could be heard yelling, oh, she's dead, while holding the black doll upside down laughing and making jokes." Wow, so that post, because she tagged several news outlets, as well as Fernandina Beach High School, the Florida High School Athletic Association, the Nassau County School District, Duval County Public Schools, and of course, Andrew Jackson High School of Advanced Technology.

this quickly became a thing so much so in the word spread about what happened and uh this post so much so that uh the naacp um released a statement about it about the incident and uh did so on friday and i'll read just a little bit of that statement It says the Jacksonville branch NAACP unequivocally condemns in the strongest possible terms the reported racist and abhorrent conduct directed at the volleyball players of Andrew Jackson High School by students, fans and others at Fernandina Beach High School.

Racism, bigotry and intimidation have absolutely no place in our schools.

our athletic programs, or any public gathering.

Student athletes deserve to compete in an environment that is safe, respectful, and free from hatred." That was just a part of their statement.

But also in the initial post, one of the problems that was pointed out is that nobody, no adults, no teachers, no officials, No one had anything to say with regards to this incident.

They did not stop the students who said what they said or made the gestures or anything.

No one did anything on Fernandina Beach High's side.

No one did anything.

And I think that is a part of the problem.

Well, of course, after all of the backlash Fernandina Beach High School did release a statement.

Actually, the Nassau County School District released a statement.

And here it is.

I'll read some of it.

Nassau County School District became aware of a deeply troubling allegations involving student behavior during last night's volleyball game.

volleyball match between Fernandina Beach High School and Andrew Jackson High School.

Again, just as a side note, the incident took place on Thursday evening.

All right.

The statement continues.