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"I would like to say that I was disappointed," said Jeovanna deShong-Connor, an elder who is co-chair of the Umoja student group, who organized the protest on Friday. "But I've heard a hate speech since I was a freshman."
She added, "I thought it was my responsibility, our responsibility to the upper class to really do that." something. "
The events took place over a week … On January 11, a freshman posted the video on a private student website, according to the student's mother, who requested the video.
She stated that he was of the opinion that the film would not be passed on to school authorities – the same results as making the video public to students. "I'm proud of him for what he did. "You see something, do something?", she said.
The mother stated that her son had not received registration documents for the year next, like other students. "He just wanted to talk, now he's the bad guy, said the mother crying, "I'm just worried about her future."
The school responded to the episode with a letter to parents and students, claiming that Umoja members were deaf to their tone as she pointed out that the distribution of the video violated the school's code. conduct. "We had the impression that the sharing of the video was worse than the content of it," said Talisha Ward, also senior and co-chair of the group of students.
On the Monday following the video posting, school administrators began taking steps to talk to students and faculty members about video and racism in general by means of ########################################################################## 39 special assemblies and one-to-one conversations. At one meeting, a dean explicitly referred to the video as "racist," said Ward, 17. But some students felt that all the students did not understand the seriousness of the problem. As a result, students began planning what would become Friday's event.
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