The Riverhead school community is reeling following the disclosure that two teen students are being investigated, accused of hurling racial slurs at local schoolchildren as young as 5 years old during a home high school football game on Sept. 9. "I'm not looking for revenge on these kids, because these kids got it from somewhere nobody is born with hate in their system," Brown said.
The superintendent said the two white students attend the middle and high school, and allegedly began taunting a Black family at a playground and then followed them into the bleachers. The alleged racist behavior became public at the school board meeting. "I've lived Riverhead all my life and I never dreamed that my great-grandchildren would be subjected to the N word in 2023," Brown said at the meeting. "We were all appalled by that, and we stand with your family. Everybody heard it, and it's not acceptable," Healy said. "Based on a review of the video footage from the playground and bleachers, it appeared words were exchanged racial slurs voiced defamatory gestures," the letter read.
"Sometimes the dust has to settle. If people have been hurt, even deeply," Pastor Philip Hardt of Riverhead United Methodist said. So far, the students in question have been banned from future football games. Other disciplinary measures are to follow. "I know that we are the majority. I don't believe that most people out there are like the people that we confronted on that Saturday. but it's time for everybody to speak out," Brown said.
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