Asian student suspended for recording racist screed she didn’t partake in sues Colorado school

A Colorado school district is being sued for suspending an Asian student who recorded her peers drunkenly using racial slurs in a disturbing video that went viral — but didn’t punish the black students who blasted it on social media because their actions should be viewed through a “culturally responsive lens.”

The Denver-based Cherry Creek School District suspended the student, identified as LY, for two months — and even contemplated expulsion — after she filmed two other female students flagrantly using the N-word and fetishizing black people over the Thanksgiving break in 2023.

“I’m not racist everyone, I just like n—,” one of the students LY caught on video was heard saying, according to the suit, filed by America First Legal and First & Fourteenth, accusing the district of First and Fourteenth Amendment violations against LY.

The two girls, who were enrolled in Campus Middle School, also made other remarks like “please don’t blackmail me,” and “I like black people.” One of the girls in the video was white, the other was Hispanic.

When the students returned from Thanksgiving break days later, LY was approached by a black peer, MJ, who asked if she could share the video with her — which LY did, the lawsuit states.

MJ allegedly reported the video to school officials and posted it on Snapshot, tagging LY and the two girls in the clip, which immediately went viral in the Denver area.

“This is why I don’t f— with white people,” she allegedly captioned it.

In the wake of the scandal, LY was suspended for two months and nearly expelled — which was as harsh as the punishment that the two girls who made the disturbing remarks faced, The Post was told.

Meanwhile, MJ and her sister, who also allegedly spread the clip on social media, didn’t face any consequences — because school officials said their behavior should be viewed through a “culturally responsive lens,” the suit charges.

“Recordings reveal District administrators admitting they were ordered by high-level District officials not to discipline M.J., the party who widely shared and broadcast the video in question, because of her race and her family’s connections to the District’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (“DEI”) programs,” the lawsuit alleges.

“…According to school officials, the reasons for not disciplining M.J. or her sister were due to such factors as the ‘whiteness of the school’ and the need to view behavior by black students through a ‘culturally responsive lens,’” the suit added.

Ian Prior, senior counsel at America First Legal, a legal advocacy group aligned with President Trump, blasted the Cherry Creek School District for “warping reality” to “satisfy their racial representation agenda.”

“Disciplinary actions should be determined by conduct, yet Cherry Creek is warping reality, blaming poor behavior on whoever can satisfy their racial representation agenda,” Prior told The Post.

“The District unfairly targets innocent students and allows those responsible to go unpunished. AFL will not allow Cherry Creek to jeopardize kids’ futures in order to appease their DEI delusions.”

America First Legal and First & Fourteenth contended that it was unfair for LY to face punishment for sharing the video, but not MJ and her sister for making it public and causing it to go viral.

A former assistant principal to staff at the time also urged school officials not to discuss the case electronically to circumvent public records requests, the two legal groups claimed.

“The basis for the District’s charges was that [LY] had ‘recorded and distributed’ a video depicting other students using discriminatory slurs and that ‘the distribution of this video caused a significant disruption to the CMS learning environment,’” the lawsuit claims.

The lawsuit demands that LY have her educational records expunged of references to that suspension and that it be declared a violation of her rights.

“Race considerations have no place in student discipline,” Laura Stell, counsel at America First Legal, argued.

“In the name of equity, these policies strip the innocence of children and only force more racial division in our society.”

The Post contacted Cherry Creek School District for comment.