Angela Washington Blasted West Point Consolidated School District Over Valedictorian and Salutatorian Debacle

Two Black teens, Ikeria Washington and Layla Temple, were initially named valedictorian and salutatorian of the 2021 graduating class at West Point High School South. On graduation day, the families of the two brilliant teens discovered that they had to share the spotlight with two white students– Dominic Borgioli and Emma Claire Berry.

Angela Washington, Ikeria’s mother, called a spade a spade. 

Via Facebook, Washington accused the superintendent of acquiescing to the white parent’s whining even though their children didn’t deserve the honor. She also added emphasized that Ikeria and Layla took harder classes than Borgioli and Berry.

According to WCBI News, the school’s handbook determined the valedictorian and salutatorian by GPA– which Borgioli and Berry did not have.

West Point Consolidated School administrators in West Point, Mississippi, basically invented a new two-point system to determine the additional recipients because Black excellence was too much for the racist school district.

“We apologize for any confusion and problems this has caused. The school district takes full responsibility for this misunderstanding,” the district said via statement.

The district has since deleted its Facebook page.

Their FB page is now gone and they’re getting dragged. The school claims they use two metrics to decide the valedictorian and salutatorian— GPA and QPA. The black students were chosen based on QPA and the two additional white students — GPA. But why wasn’t that announced before? pic.twitter.com/YivRHrMi3m

— chris evans (@chris_notcapn) June 1, 2021

On Twitter, users sounded off about the district’s double standard. 

A Mississippi HS had two black female students as their valedictorian and salutatorian.

Then suddenly, hours before the graduation, they announced two additional students were ALSO the valedictorian and salutatorian for a total of four. The school has deleted their social media pic.twitter.com/CkAKQ5nKjL

— chris evans (@chris_notcapn) June 1, 2021

Every.single.time! Black people succeed at their game & they change the rules. pic.twitter.com/HiZ0HEjrLt

— KD (@Fly_Sistah) June 1, 2021

Another example of moving the goal posts when Black people outperform them.

— JayTeeExcel (Gen X Blerd) (@JayTeeExcel) June 1, 2021

To add insult to injury they gave the black students second billing… pic.twitter.com/AuDFdvoB8k

— 🔅🔅 Kezzmit 🔅🔅 (@Kezzmit) June 1, 2021

I bet Karen and Becky were pissed their little darlings weren’t top of the class and had a their friends calling the school and demanding their kids be recognized. This is bullshit

— Alex Eff Brown (@alexeffbrown) June 1, 2021

They actually did work with more difficulty than the two white kids. They robbed those two black students of the spotlight they earned.

— #JoeMama🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 (@Mama4Obama1) June 1, 2021

Although West Point Consolidated Schools tried to make an illogical situation logical, the community, social media users and Washington and Temple’s parents know that the district can’t put sh*t in a box and call it chocolate.