In a Picture-Postcard New York Town, Racist Incidents Rattle Schools
The New York Times
When students in Pittsford, a suburb of Rochester, returned to school in the fall, a disturbing video of a white student threatening to kill Black people renewed concerns about racism.
PITTSFORD, N.Y. — When students in the town of Pittsford, N.Y., an affluent suburb just outside Rochester, flowed back into schools this fall, something troubling emerged: a video of a white student brandishing a gun and making a racist threat.
“People be like, ‘Why do you carry a gun?’” the boy says in the short clip, pulling out the weapon. To kill Black people, he answered, using a racial slur.
For some parents and students, the video has laid bare what they say is a larger pattern of racist incidents in the largely white town where local officials are now scrambling to address those concerns.
