As their virtual graduation approached and as their city erupted in widespread protests over the death of George Floyd, students at Granada Hills Charter High School took a stand in their own campus community against online, anti-black comments.
“People were like: ‘Wow, it was disgusting. I can’t believe I go to a school with people like this,’” said Brookelynn Fenderson, 17, a graduating senior who is president of the school’s Black Student Union and temporarily reposted the messages, expressing outrage. “Granada is a very diverse school. You see different races and ethnicities and you feel very accepted. To see this really threw me off.
“When I read what they were saying, I felt I had the responsibility to shed some light on that,” said Vinson, another graduating senior. “Because nobody should be talking like that so close to George Floyd’s death — and the fact that they were making fun of it.
Such hateful online expressions “should always be called out,” said Lecia Brooks, outreach director of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit legal advocacy organization, based in Montgomery, Ala., that specializes“Racism gets picked up and amplified by young people,” Brooks said. “Any kind of racist language — whether it be anti-Semitism, homophobia, Islamophobia, xenophobia — should always be challenged.”The Times reviewed a screenshot of an apology from one of the chat-group students.
This hate is learned at home and these lame charter schools owners have no issue with it as they are in the eduction business of making money, these vi,e miscreants and their parents need to be outed and shamed.
It's still a charter school weakening the public school system, so...
Let us not forget poor Jussie Smollett was attacked at 2:00 AM on the coldest day of the year in Chicago by MAGA. Oh the inhumanity!
Juvenile hijinks...LOL.
I don't always think I control peoples freedom of speech thought lives but when I do oh wait I' m a commie puppet + I do think that but anyway when I arrested for looting + burning + called out on the internet I call the arrest police brutality - stay commie brew drunk my comrade
Stop normalizing crime by black men. Black men are the biggest killers in the country. Black people are 13% of US population but commit 52% of murders. Black people killed 500 white people last year. White people killed 229 black people.