We had an incident similar to that here when my daughter was in high school. It’s a County school and most of the boys wear boots since these are farm/ranch kids. There was no dress code at the time. Well, the black kids decided it was racist for the white kids to wear cowboy boots. They tried to get the school to make them stop wearing boots. The white kids wouldn’t give up their boots as long as the black kids were allowed to wear Malcome-X t-shirts. The school decided that it was all silly and refused to stop the wearing of boots. The black kids decided to make a bigger issue of it by getting the NAACP involved but it backfired when the Klan showed up. The black kids and their parents decided it wasn’t worth the fight and nothing has been said since.
Yikes.