ISSAQUAH, Wash. - A high school student in Issaquah is being called out by a Seahawks player for using a racist sign to ask her date to 'tolo'.
'Tolo,' sometimes known as 'Sadie Hawkins,' is a dance where young women traditionally ask young men to be their date, instead of the other way around.
The girl used a sign that said, "If I were black, I'd be picking cotton but instead, I pick you. Tolo?"
The school has not identified the student who posted the message.
Seahawk wide receiver Doug Baldwin tweeted the picture and said he was saddened that this idea was thought of and executed without intervention.
Baldwin is one of many who are calling attention to the photo, and the Issaquah School District's spokeswoman has responded.
"It was heartbreaking, it was absolutely heartbreaking. We're going to do a methodical, deliberate, intentional investigation," said ISD's spokeswoman.
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