This is just one of those stories that really encapsulates Riverdale in a nutshell pretty succinctly.
Long story short: principal gets arrested, student finds mugshot online, posts mugshot to Instagram. Principal gets pissed that her mugshot is discovered and posted online, confronts and then suspends student for no real good reason. lols ensue.
- The student, named “Keandre” (thank GOD even Word thinks that’s a misspelling) says this after he is suspended:
I gots to be in schoo
Because he “has to study” for finals. Anyone who’s ever been to Riverdale knows that the only real education that happens in Riverdale is how to correctly hold a gun, how to escape from the non-existent police force, and how escape from the scene of a crime.
- Regardless of the semantics, the principal really had zero basis for suspending Keandre in the first place. This isn’t much more of a story than it really is if she just confessed that she did it because she was butthurt, embarrassed and probably humiliated that her mugshot was found out and posted to the internet.
Seriously, mugshots are public record, and public information. If I were Keandre’s dad, hell, I’d post her mugshot to the internet and email all other parents I knew. What’s she going to do, suspend me? The principal was clearly humiliated by being easily revealed, and tries to use the justification of “distributing false information” as just reason to suspend Keandre.
- Principal takes offense to being falsely hypothesized of having been arrested for DUI, when she was actually arrested for failing to show up to court for speeding.
Who cares? Arrest is arrest. Both are breaking the law, and it doesn’t hold up too well that a school administrator, much less than a school’s principal has an arrest record. Anyone who’s ever been to Riverdale knows that all black folk there, regardless of gender, speeds like Foot Locker is about to run out of Air Jordans, and unfortunately for this retard principal, she just happened to get caught.
- Bottom line, principal is in the wrong, student is in the clear.
This is only a story because it happened in Riverdale, and if there’s one thing the media really loves to hone in on, it’s America’s fascination with examining and prodding at what the poor working-class black America is up to on a daily basis. Either way, everyone’s a loser in this scenario, but it’s still a pretty good example of what Riverdale really actually is.
