Racist Email Investigation @ Oakton HS

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Doubtful this can be tracked.

How much is this going to cost?

You know nothing. As someone who does some forensic work like this, the vast majority of emails can be tracked. The question is how clever was the writer in covering their tracks. If they were really good and knew what they were doing, they could cover their tracks and the trail will end in a dead end. I'd say the vast majority, well over 98% of messages are not sent by people who can do that. And most of the public will not be able to cover their tracks. So, with a reasonable electronic forensic team, they can find the origin.

And then what? Prosecute for a mean email? It was classless and wrong, but a full-fledged investigation is a lot.

Maybe it was sent by someone working for FCPS.

[Anonymous]

We've seen racist tweets on the internet before. I have never seen one speaking about the features of a person. This is just extremely odd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Doubtful this can be tracked.

How much is this going to cost?

You know nothing. As someone who does some forensic work like this, the vast majority of emails can be tracked. The question is how clever was the writer in covering their tracks. If they were really good and knew what they were doing, they could cover their tracks and the trail will end in a dead end. I'd say the vast majority, well over 98% of messages are not sent by people who can do that. And most of the public will not be able to cover their tracks. So, with a reasonable electronic forensic team, they can find the origin.

How do you track an email sent from a protonmail or ****.li (you probably know what I'm talking about) address?

US government has gotten records from protonmail. Also, if they have connections, NSA has direct taps on ISPs and can get e-mail prior to reaching protonmail, unless they are using encryption.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Doubtful this can be tracked.

How much is this going to cost?

You know nothing. As someone who does some forensic work like this, the vast majority of emails can be tracked. The question is how clever was the writer in covering their tracks. If they were really good and knew what they were doing, they could cover their tracks and the trail will end in a dead end. I'd say the vast majority, well over 98% of messages are not sent by people who can do that. And most of the public will not be able to cover their tracks. So, with a reasonable electronic forensic team, they can find the origin.

How do you track an email sent from a protonmail or ****.li (you probably know what I'm talking about) address?

US government has gotten records from protonmail. Also, if they have connections, NSA has direct taps on ISPs and can get e-mail prior to reaching protonmail, unless they are using encryption.

I find the email offensive and, of course, troubling. However, it is not criminal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Doubtful this can be tracked.

How much is this going to cost?

You know nothing. As someone who does some forensic work like this, the vast majority of emails can be tracked. The question is how clever was the writer in covering their tracks. If they were really good and knew what they were doing, they could cover their tracks and the trail will end in a dead end. I'd say the vast majority, well over 98% of messages are not sent by people who can do that. And most of the public will not be able to cover their tracks. So, with a reasonable electronic forensic team, they can find the origin.

How do you track an email sent from a protonmail or ****.li (you probably know what I'm talking about) address?

US government has gotten records from protonmail. Also, if they have connections, NSA has direct taps on ISPs and can get e-mail prior to reaching protonmail, unless they are using encryption.

I find the email offensive and, of course, troubling. However, it is not criminal.

Let's be real people. This is Fairfax. White people are afraid to be openly racist while it's tolerated if its from other races (especially against white people). White members of the Fairfax NAACP have a history of manufacturing crisis after crisis to justify their existence ever since it has only a few black members. There influence in this matter is indicative of their involvement to aid the school in developing a business case justification to deploy their biased incident reporting system and award another sole source contract to their vendor of choice.

Michelle Reid had the email since last month, and now it's been leaked. Look who is going to get paid as a result.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I find the story a bit hard to follow - is Jillian a coach who just left? Or is it Faith? or is it both?

The entire letter is terrible but what kind of idiot parent thinks high school cheer is so important in the scheme of a lifetime. “ Our fear is that the history of Oakton cheerleading will be tarnished and remembered with conversations of ‘peoole’ who destroyed something that so many people worked hard for. “
History of cheerleading tarnished 😂
This is such a white mom thing to write.

And “alumni cheerleaders”? They don’t have anything better going on to concern themselves with this???

No. This is not. It might be someone from long ago. Very confusing letter. Almost sounds Smollett to me.

So by this reference to “Smollett,” you’re implying that the Black cheerleading coach wrote this fake letter to garner sympathy???

DP, but I agree something is off about that email. The language is too flowery about tarnishing the reputation and the reference to dark features is bizarrely racist. Plus the cheer team is terrible, so there's no reputation to save. The dance team is the star of games.

Something is rotten about the whole thing. I wonder if they're bluffing about the investigation to make the sender sweat.

This is absolutely staged. Not necessarily by the former coach, though I wouldn't rule it out. Could also be a disgruntled team member. It does strike me as an amateur take on what a racist email from a parent would sound like, from say, a highschool sophmore or junior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find the story a bit hard to follow - is Jillian a coach who just left? Or is it Faith? or is it both?

The entire letter is terrible but what kind of idiot parent thinks high school cheer is so important in the scheme of a lifetime. “ Our fear is that the history of Oakton cheerleading will be tarnished and remembered with conversations of ‘peoole’ who destroyed something that so many people worked hard for. “
History of cheerleading tarnished 😂
This is such a white mom thing to write.

And “alumni cheerleaders”? They don’t have anything better going on to concern themselves with this???

No. This is not. It might be someone from long ago. Very confusing letter. Almost sounds Smollett to me.

So by this reference to “Smollett,” you’re implying that the Black cheerleading coach wrote this fake letter to garner sympathy???

DP, but I agree something is off about that email. The language is too flowery about tarnishing the reputation and the reference to dark features is bizarrely racist. Plus the cheer team is terrible, so there's no reputation to save. The dance team is the star of games.

Something is rotten about the whole thing. I wonder if they're bluffing about the investigation to make the sender sweat.

This is absolutely staged. Not necessarily by the former coach, though I wouldn't rule it out. Could also be a disgruntled team member. It does strike me as an amateur take on what a racist email from a parent would sound like, from say, a highschool sophmore or junior.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Doubtful this can be tracked.

How much is this going to cost?

You know nothing. As someone who does some forensic work like this, the vast majority of emails can be tracked. The question is how clever was the writer in covering their tracks. If they were really good and knew what they were doing, they could cover their tracks and the trail will end in a dead end. I'd say the vast majority, well over 98% of messages are not sent by people who can do that. And most of the public will not be able to cover their tracks. So, with a reasonable electronic forensic team, they can find the origin.

How do you track an email sent from a protonmail or ****.li (you probably know what I'm talking about) address?

US government has gotten records from protonmail. Also, if they have connections, NSA has direct taps on ISPs and can get e-mail prior to reaching protonmail, unless they are using encryption.

I find the email offensive and, of course, troubling. However, it is not criminal.

Let's be real people. This is Fairfax. White people are afraid to be openly racist while it's tolerated if its from other races (especially against white people). White members of the Fairfax NAACP have a history of manufacturing crisis after crisis to justify their existence ever since it has only a few black members. There influence in this matter is indicative of their involvement to aid the school in developing a business case justification to deploy their biased incident reporting system and award another sole source contract to their vendor of choice.

Michelle Reid had the email since last month, and now it's been leaked. Look who is going to get paid as a result.

I bet it was from someone in Gatehouse - it gives them justification for funding even more non-scholastic social warrior initiatives that administrators are so fond of

[Anonymous]

I'm just a dumb Oakton parent, but wouldn't the originator, despite being a complete imbecile, need to have some cybersecurity knowledge? Appears they've managed to evade FCPS IT and outside consultants. Perhaps it's easy, but I certainly don't have any idea.

[Anonymous]

Interesting that the person mentioned in email is calling for more "anti-racist" training.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Doubtful this can be tracked.

How much is this going to cost?

One would think that the millions (yes, that is correct) put into the FCPS Cybersecurity office and their huge staff maybe they could figure it out.

No doubt - more reason to believe the whole thing is staged.

[Anonymous]

I am so tired of political theater, of administrators calling attention to uncommonly obvious and tacky displays of racism and transphobia so they can exploit them for virtue signaling.
I just hate the whole dog and pony show of political correctness. I am inclined to think that the more insidious kind of prejudice is subtler and less transparent, but that would require a kind of investigation and reflection that doesn’t fit as easily into slogans and bullet points. The people at the top really do seem like anti-intellectual rubes - it’s embarassing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why is it oakton hs that always has the scandals???. Band bus incidents, tasers in the locker room, and car crashes. Their culture needs some serious fixing

My kids go to Oakton and it seems normal enough. No clue why they seem to have these things in the press. Is it just that other schools have similar that don't get press?

I do question why the cheer team has had two coaches in two years--and I think in 2021 the coach quit mid way thru the season. A friend has a kid on the team and never said anything negative but maybe I never asked the right questions.

Is the entire cheerleading squad white?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s a horrible email that should be broadcast out to demonstrate what might be living within the Oakton community. I am glad they tried to figure out who sent it. I do not think we need a third party investigation. I am sad to see that Dr. Reid caved to Sujatha Hampton and the local NAACP on this one. They have a history of pushing other decisions that make no sense and have a few board members in their pocket. We do not need Dr. Reid to cave to them, too.

It wasn't so much that she caved to them, she caved to the girl Faith who went to the press. The e mail wasn't even TO her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Doubtful this can be tracked.

How much is this going to cost?

You know nothing. As someone who does some forensic work like this, the vast majority of emails can be tracked. The question is how clever was the writer in covering their tracks. If they were really good and knew what they were doing, they could cover their tracks and the trail will end in a dead end. I'd say the vast majority, well over 98% of messages are not sent by people who can do that. And most of the public will not be able to cover their tracks. So, with a reasonable electronic forensic team, they can find the origin.

How do you track an email sent from a protonmail or ****.li (you probably know what I'm talking about) address?

US government has gotten records from protonmail. Also, if they have connections, NSA has direct taps on ISPs and can get e-mail prior to reaching protonmail, unless they are using encryption.

I find the email offensive and, of course, troubling. However, it is not criminal.

Let's be real people. This is Fairfax. White people are afraid to be openly racist while it's tolerated if its from other races (especially against white people). White members of the Fairfax NAACP have a history of manufacturing crisis after crisis to justify their existence ever since it has only a few black members. There influence in this matter is indicative of their involvement to aid the school in developing a business case justification to deploy their biased incident reporting system and award another sole source contract to their vendor of choice.

Michelle Reid had the email since last month, and now it's been leaked. Look who is going to get paid as a result.

Tell me you're racist without telling me you're racist. Geez, PP!!