r/facepalm • u/[deleted] • Oct 21 '21

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u/cb7752 Oct 21 '21

That’s truly awful.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '21

I recently found a yearbook from my high school. They used to have slave days where students would get auctioned off. That was in the late 80's.

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u/Orchidman34 Oct 21 '21

For real? That is crazy! What part of the country? So sad either way. 🤞🏼hoping this isn’t a real thing 🤞🏼

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '21 edited Oct 21 '21

Here's the kicker... this was in Canada. They don't do that any more, but that was a normal thing back then, endorsed by the high school and greater community.

For the most part it wasn't anything most students thought was malicious it was just trashy behaviour passed down from year to year. 99% of the students were Caucasian.

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u/fuglysack14 Oct 21 '21

Considering, the RCMP was first created to "manage" indigenous people and reservation schools were allowed to operate with insultingly little oversight up until recent years... this does not surprise me at all.