No Punishment, No Apology: Outraged Parents Call Out Georgia School District’s Hollow Promises After Coach Targets Black Girls with Racist Slur 

A Georgia school district settled a civil rights lawsuit with an agreement to adequately respond to racial harassment incidents after two former Black students were called a slur by their cheerleading coach, but their parents are concerned district officials won’t earnestly implement those measures. Antwishia Thomas and Cortese Walker filed two complaints on Jan. 15, 2020, against the Houston County School District after learning that a coach at Veterans High School, Daniel Satterfield, called their daughters the N-word twice during a cheer practice in October 2019. Veterans High School in Perry, Georgia. (Photo: Houston County School District) Thomas and Walker told The Macon Telegraph that a junior varsity coach was the one who notified them about the slur. The coach confronted Satterfield, who “apologized” and said that “he was quoting lyrics to a song,” according to the investigative documents from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. Both parents reported the incident to the school administration. However, during an internal investigation, all the coaches told administrators that nothing “unusual” occurred at the practice, including the JV coach. Thomas and Walker also told school leaders that Satterfield had a history of bringing up questionable and offensive race-based topics to...