“The outreach was really to indicate that he, Matthew, understands his mishap in terms of what he did, what he’s caused. He’s remorseful,” Briggs continued. “I took that as some form of apology, but that’s not something I think at this time amounts to a solid apology, from my perspective.
“I don’t think an apology, an ‘I’m sorry,’ makes this go away because there’s a lot of harm that was caused.” The damning footage from the graduation shows Eddy pushing Briggs aside as his daughter was receiving her diploma, saying “I don’t want her touching him.”
Sounds like a bullying situation, but she got expelled and the ones who did it to her didn’t. If that’s the case, it’s annoying that the media made him look like a racist. Or he’s a racist and now making this up.
If she didn’t want to shake his hand she could have just grabbed her diploma. There’s no requirement for a handshake there. The father didn’t want her to shake his hand, and he couldn’t convince her not to.
I agree, I don’t condone this guy making a scene like this. I just want to point out that it’s not necessarily a racist action.
It is absolutely not necessarily… But the odds aren’t great.
Please explain. Is it just because one of them is white and the other is black? Why do you think the odds are it’s racism?