Boston students stage anti-Trump walkout
Armed with handwritten signs and shouting anti-Donald Trump chants, 282 Boston Public Schools students pushed in their chairs Monday afternoon and walked out of their classrooms.
The walkout, planned last week, was the students’ way of standing up against a Donald Trump presidency and what they see as his “white supremacist” affiliations.
Boston Public Schools is made up predominantly of minority students. Only 14 percent of the student body is white. Latino and black students make up most of the student population with 42 percent and 32 percent respectively, according to district demographic data.
“Donald J. Trump will be the next president of the United States and we have the right to protest and stand together against the inexcusable statements he has made about, and the harmful policies he promises to enact against, immigrants, Muslims, black Americans, the disabled, the LGBTQ+ community and women,” organizers wrote on a Facebook page publicizing the protest.
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