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North Carolina school system apologizes for racist hashtags
March 14, 2021
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WAXHAW, N.C. (AP) School officials in North Carolina have apologized after racist hashtags were displayed on a classroom Twitter wall as part of a Civil War assignment for fourth graders.
Kimberly Morrison-Hansley, a member of the Union County NAACP chapter, told The Charlotte Observer that the students at the Waxhaw Elementary School were assigned to write tweets and hashtags that people living in North Carolina during the Civil War might have written if Twitter existed during that time period. Students came up with hashtags such as “Slavery for Life, according to a photo of the Twitter wall in a now-deleted post on the school Facebook page, WJZY-TV reported. ....

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