Students at Calif. High School March to Protest Racist Messages, Lynching Threat (CA)

[struggle4progress]

BY: STEPHEN A. CROCKETT JR.
Posted: Nov. 6 2015 7:44 AM

More than 1,500 Berkeley High students staged a protest after a Web page made to look like the school's home page made references to the Ku Klux Klan and included racial slurs and threats against black students, including a note reading, "Public lynching December 9th 2015."

... students at the California high school walked out of classes around 9 a.m. Thursday and marched through the streets chanting ...

Authorities told the newspaper that a 15-year-old Berkeley student admitted to creating the page, using a school-library computer ...

http://www.theroot.com/articles/news/2015/11/berkeley_high_students_march_to_protest_against_racist_messages_lynching.html

[Lifelong Protester]

1. I'd walk out too!

But then again, I helped occupy the administration building on my college campus as the president (fleeing to a vacation to Florida) decided to cut scholarships for Economic Educational Opportunities (these scholarships tended to go to mostly African American students).

[brush]

2. It's Berkeley.

Even the high school students are politically conscious and don't take kindly to that kind of sh_t.

Much contrast to a segment of the student body protesting in favor of "Officer Slam" in the police violence case in South Carolina.

Go Berkeley! I used to live two blocks from there back in the day on Grant and Bancroft.