A black New York high school student is speaking out this week after a classmate targeted her with a racist threat on social media.
NBC New York reports that N'Senga Kinzonzi, a sophomore at Minisink Valley High School, gave an emotional press conference on Thursday in which she recounted seeing a photo of herself posted by a classmate on Snapchat along with a caption that read, "We must lynch her."
Additionally, Kinzonzi's family says that the school so far hasn't taken any serious action to discipline the student responsible for the message.
"This was a threat made on her life, and there was a call for others to participate in this," said her mother, Nicole Kinzonzi. "The caption said 'we' must lynch her."
Grandmother Drusilla Kinzonzi, meanwhile, said that the school should be doing more to educate students about the horrific history of black Americans getting lynched in the South for decades.
"If we're not teaching all of American history, we are not teaching," she said.
The family is scheduled to meet with the school's superintendent on Monday. The school has said it has no tolerance for racist threats and has vowed that the offending student will face consequences of some kind.
