Missouri City, Texas (KPRC) — A Texas high school student says he was forced to change his outfit after showing up to school dressed as a slave for “Decades Day” at his high school on Tuesday.
Brian Ibe is a senior at Ridge Point High School in Missouri City.
This week is spirit week, in honor of homecoming. Each day, the students dress up in costume according to the day’s theme.
On Tuesday, the theme was “Decades Day,” and Ibe showed up to school wearing a ball and chain and a shredded T-shirt splattered in fake blood, and he was carrying a pitchfork and bag of cotton.
“I decided to dress in the time when there were slaves, from about the 1600s to the 1800s,” Ibe said.
Ibe said he wanted to recognize the plight of his ancestors, but school administrators weren’t on the same page.
“They told me to take it off,” Ibe said. “They said I should take it off before it starts problems and makes people uncomfortable.”
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