Police in Oakland, California, had to evacuate one of the city’s schools after it received a bomb threat, days after the school was the site of a “play date” for its Black, brown, and Asian-American students.
Family members of the students and administrators say they received backlash for having the event, with members in the predominately white and affluent community crying reverse racism. Organizers and participants insisted that nothing was further from the truth and that the event was a diversity and inclusion opportunity set up to affirm students of color.
Tamila Jackson, a parent of a Black student at the school and a member of the equity and inclusion group, received emails based on the event.
“They decided to start emailing us threats, asked if we wanted a race war, it was something mentioned of being locked in chains and released back in the jungle where we belong,” she said in an interview with KTVU.
A conservative social media account, Libs of TikTok, made a post about the event on Monday, Aug. 28, and called the school “racist against white people.”
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The Oakland Unified School District received the threats on that same day and contacted the local authorities. When the school received it the next day, Tuesday, Aug. 29, they also immediately contacted authorities.
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Oakland Police Capt. Lisa Ausmus says her department responded to a bomb threat at Chabot Elementary around 7:30 a.m. She said the school received a bomb threat with thinly veiled racist language. As a result, the school was evacuated.
Thirty students and staff members already on campus were moved to a baseball field next to the school. Those arriving were prohibited from going into the building as OPD officers, deputies from the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office…
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