Students at an Oklahoma City high school were made to line up by skin color and hair texture by a college recruiter who has since been fired.
the recruiter from Oklahoma Christian University visited Monday and, during a gathering at the gym, first asked them to line up from darkest to lightest skin. After dispersing that line, he had them stand based on their hair.
“That’s when I felt uncomfortable,’’ classmate Korey Todd said. “I was like, ‘OK, I don’t think this is right.’’’ , ranked by U.S. News & World Report as Oklahoma’s top public high school in 2019, has an ethnically diverse student body of about 430. According to the school’s website, the demographic breakdown last year was 28% African American, 28% Hispanic, 23% Caucasian, 7% Asian and 14% other.
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