An Illinois high school student who posted a racist ad on Craigslist about a "slave for sale" was sentenced to probation and community service Wednesday, prosecutors say. nbcnews.to/2XB9dXu
@NBCNews No, there is absolutely nothing “funny” about this “prank/joke” ….. Implicit in the joke is a complete disregard of the suffering experienced by people that were enslaved.
@NBCNews Yet companies are using slave labor for their products and get away with it.
@NBCNews What this is kid did was awful, and I hope he learns from it. To convict him off two felonies and in misdemeanor is a bit crazy though. A bit of a stretch to say he committed any crime at all.
@NBCNews Everyone’s assuming the student who posted the ad was white. The article says an “unnamed student.” It could be a black on black incident!