“Children are dying because they are living in a nightmarish cycle of gaslighting and harassment, being told to behave in the face of someone else’s violence when they are not being protected by our institutions.”

Are you fucking kidding me. These people need to calm down, it was a comment about candy.

Marion Ashton, who works with Black youths at the advocacy group Sankofa Foundation, says a video posted on Instagram by blackyouthcollectiveyyc was recorded by students at Bishop McNally High School last year where a white teacher is heard casually using the offensive word.

In the video, the teacher, which students say is a substitute, is speaking to a group of Black students in the school hallway and comments on the black licorice they are eating. She says the candy used to be called “N-word babies” and only cost a penny for three pieces.

Fun fact: Bishop McNally students staged a walk out today and are currently marching down the middle of a busy street in Calgary.

Last week, students at St. Michael School were suspended after releasing a recording of their principal in which she used the word while she reprimanded them for using it.