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KamaAina

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Thu Nov 5, 2015, 06:54 PM Nov 2015

Berkeley High students stage walkout over racist post

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Berkeley-students-stage-walkout-over-racist-post-6613109.php

About 2,000 Berkeley High School students walked out of class Thursday morning and took to the streets to protest a racist message left on a computer screen a day earlier.

The message, which school officials found at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, referred to the KKK, used derogatory language related to African Americans and threatened a “public lynching” on Dec. 9.

“This is a hate crime and messages such as this one will not stand in our community,” said Principal Sam Pasarow in an e-mail to the school community late Wednesday. “I assure you that we are giving this investigation the utmost attention, as well as involving the Berkeley Police Department.”

District officials estimated that about 2,000 of the school’s 3,000 students had left school grounds to participate in the march, which had moved to UC Berkeley late in the morning. Administrators and Berkeley Police officers were with the students, said district spokesman Marc Coplan.






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