The Fresno, California school’s lame effort to respond to the racism backfired, too.
A California school district notorious for alleged racial incidents—including an Instagram page mocking Black students as “monkeys” and white students showing up to school in blackface and KKK garb—is at war with its Black students after they claim administrators have not done enough to address years of racial intimidation.
She asked other Black students standing with her if teachers or school staff offered them any emotional assistance in the aftermath of racist incidents. The news conference came after students across the district protested Friday against a photo that surfaced last week of a student posing in the school’s weight room wearing something that resembled a Klansman hood, local outletIn an attempt to show solidarity with Black students, Bullard High School posted images of the protest on the school’s Facebook page. However, community members said the post was “performative” and did little to combat racism.
Ebony Knox told The Daily Beast in a Facebook message that her 16-year-old son, who has a learning disability, was featured on the Instagram page without his knowledge.