South Hadley High School students in South Hadley, Massachusetts, walked out of class in silent protest Thursday after a fellow student posted an inflammatory video online. The students say they face detention for participating.

"We decided to walk because the video was very vulgar, had very explicit terms," said senior Calvin Bridges. Another senior, Amirah Sheehan-Miles, said, "I think there's more to gain and less to lose."


According to Mass Live, an underclassman posted Snapchat videos in which she makes racist and homophobic remarks with an American flag hanging as a backdrop.

"Black lives don't matter, they should be out there picking my cotton, and they should do my [expletive] work for me," she said in one video.

"I think I'm living pretty good. Like, all my friends are white, none of them are gay and we drink on the weekends, we all Juul [a nicotine vape device,] it's actually a pretty good life," she said in another. "I'm not a piece of s—. And any queer, any black person, that's a piece of s— because black people literally look like s—."

"When I saw it, I was shocked that such a young girl in, like, my town, my school could say such harsh things and have that mindset," Sheehan-Miles said.

School officials have not released the girl's identity or her punishment.