About 125 students in a Northern California high school gathered in protest against classmates who made a video where they used a racial slur targeting Black people.
The group, led by co-presidents of the Black Student Union of Tamalpais High School, walked out of the school in an organized fashion to demonstrate their objection to the clip. According to the reports, the video, which was circulated among students last week, shows several students using the N-word while others laughed.
Logan Raven and Auvin Cole planned the walkout for Wednesday, Oct. 11, in response to the use of bigoted and abusive language.
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“I think this brought attention to racist comments and the use of the N-word around campus and online,” said Raven, who is a senior and a member of the school’s basketball team, according to the Marin Independent Journal.
The school in Mill Valley, California, is also known for having once been an educational institution for rapper Tupac Shakur. Tupac attended the school in his junior year and part of his senior year before he dropped out. It is also the backdrop for his first interview, which was captured on video in 1988.
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For Raven and Cole, the leaders of the Black Student Union, the goal was to get the school district to take note of what happened and take action against the individuals responsible for the offensive video.
Around noon, the youth walked from the school to Mill Valley City Hall. They then returned to the school, walking along Miller Avenue — peacefully. According to reports, hundreds of community members, school staffers, and adults joined them as they marched.
The issue for Cole is that there is a culture of permissiveness that breeds racism. He believes if it went unchecked, it could easily become a threat that is dangerous.
“We feel there hasn’t really been discipline or punishment enacted for people who do this. I feel like…
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