Photo courtesy of Nya Sigin/ Shaun King/ Instagram.
Fourteen-year-old Nya Sigin was the victim of a vile racist rant by her classmate, Jaeyln Crooks, in Savage, Minn. A video posted to Instagram shows Crooks calling Sigin racial slurs and instructing her to kill herself for being a dark-a** n****r.
The stupid teenager recorded herself telling Sigin that she was “so f***ing dark” and that she could rot in hell. Crooks also called Sigin a “dark-a** chocolate bar.”
Crooks’ friends can be heard in the background saying nobody likes her and that she should tie the rope tighter next time. Fourteen-year-old Nya suffers from depression, anxiety and is recovering from a suicide attempt last May.
The Savage Police Department is investigating the incident. Sigin and her mother spoke with 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS about the racist attack. Sigin said that the racist video was the most disgusting thing she’d ever seen.
“It was just the most disgusting thing I’ve ever witnessed in my entire life,’ said Sigin. “I was feeling I was confused. I didn’t really know what I had done to even deserve it….This whole entire situation happens and it just feels like a relapse,” she said.
Shaun King posted the vile video on Instagram.
“Young nasty racist Karens soon become grown nasty racist Karens,” wrote King. “This is Jaelyn Crooks of Prior Lake High School in Minnesota. Nasty racist bigot. It’s disgusting. I’m sure your parents and grandparents and siblings talk this way at home. You are so comfortable with your racism that it clearly wasn’t a slip of the tongue or a momentary lapse of judgement. ”
Why Crooks and her little band of Nazis targeted beautiful Nya as she recovered from a suicide attempt is unclear, but they need to be dealt with accordingly.
Nya’s sister, Elizabeth Sigin, is a senior at the same high school and was understandably outraged by the video.
“It was sick,” said Elizabeth. “I watched the first half and it was nothing new, I see racist things all the time. And then it got to the second half where it was actual threats and actual vile language and I was just so mad.. It’s not an isolated incident,” she continued.
“I don’t know at this point what I can do to make sure that this stops for good because it’s too much on my sister. It’s too much on the family to just constantly be in these issues where somebody is harassing her and somebody is bullying her and she’s only a freshman. She still has three more years of being at the school, and I want those three years to be good for her.”
The school’s superintendent Dr. Teri Staloch released a statement denouncing the video and claimed that they were taking the appropriate action.
Sigin wants schools to give more consequences to those who acted in such a manner and noted that nothing would change until they do so.