By Snejana Farberov For Dailymail.com
Published: 21:43 BST, 30 April 2019 | Updated: 21:43 BST, 30 April 2019
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Two students at a Maryland high school are under fire after sharing a photo of themselves in blackface on Snapchat and using the N-word.
According to a letter sent home to parents and students by Robert Dodd, principal of Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, the offensive image was shared over the weekend on a 'private social media account.'
The image, which has since spread far and wide on Twitter, depicts two white girls in what looks like mud on their faces.
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Two white freshmen girls at a Bethesda, Maryland, high school will face disciplinary actions after posing for a photo on Snapchat while wearing blackface and using the N-word
Officials at Walt Whitman High School learned of the offensive photo on Monday and reported it to the county police as a 'hate-bias' incident
The phrase ‘were [sic] n*****s' is superimposed over the image.
Fox 5 reported that the culprits are freshmen at Walt Whitman High, where 66 per cent of the students are white.
