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TikTok Teacher Branded as 'Racist' For Taking Student's Durag On 4/16/21 at 5:22 PM EDT A junior high teacher has been slammed online after footage surfaced of her mocking a Black student's durag she had confiscated earlier in the day. Wyoming middle school teacher Mariah Webb was initially called out on TikTok by a popular Black creator who goes by the name Aunt Karen. On Tuesday, Webb posted a since-deleted video holding up a durag and making fun of the item. "Things that my kids bring to school that I get to 'confinscate,'" she says, misstating the word "confiscate." "Looks like pantyhose!...

Mariah Webb, 29, is an English teacher at Sheridan Junior High School in Sheridan, Wyoming This week, she shared a video on TikTok in which she smirked while showing off a black do-rag that she said she 'got to confiscate' from a kid She said it 'looks like pantyhose' and made a face while putting it on her head  Do-rags are used to protect hair, create waves, and hold a hairstyle in place, and have become a fashion statement of their own in recent decades They are also an important part of black culture and history TikTok user @auntkaren0 identified Webb and shared the video on her own pag...

She explains, “I owe every single person that saw my video yesterday an apology.” But then she says that while she’s “not justifying any actions,” she essentially should be allowed space for learning “due to the context of the situation, and the lack of education.” Advertisement Hide She explains the incident had an interesting twist: “The black item, which I found out was a durag on TikTok, was taken away from a white student, who had it wrapped around his neck in my class.” If she’s to be believed, this isn’t just about Webb’s insensitivity of a tradi...