Posted on 06/04/2014 6:41:55 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
Racial tensions erupt inside both inside and outside Digital Harbor High School in Federal Hill over the past week. Now school officials and the police are coming together to try to put an end to the violence. Students say the feud is between African Americans and Latinos.
Meghan McCorkell has more on the actions being taken.
Tuesday night, parents were called to a meeting with police and school officials to try and curb fears. Police increased patrols outside Digital Harbor High School after tensions between students boil over.
“There were some problems between students, and that’s what started everything,” said Jose Dominguez, student.
Dominguez says his fellow classmates are scared to walk the halls after two students were attacked last week after school.
“You could feel something bad was going on,” he said
The strain has now moved inside the school.
“It’s like segregation. Hispanic kids stay on one side. The African Americans stay on the other,” said Sevi Chaplin, a student at the school. “They’ve been breaking out into fights, riots, everything else.”
Some parents are so fearful they’ve kept their kids home. “I didn’t send mine back Monday or Tuesday, yesterday or today. No, I didn’t,” said concerned mother Kisha Jackson.
Frightened for his life, 10th grader Ali Majeki is on edge. He says he has to constantly watch is back in school. He said the diversity divide is the talk of the halls.
“Every teacher is walking and talking about this situation,” Majeki said.
A few students say it escalated between African Americans and Latinos after the murder of a former Mexican student, 15-year-old Oscar Torres.
Even though Majeki is not Latino, his older brother has been holding him out of school.
“He didn’t go to school today and yesterday for safety concerns,” his brother said.
Anabel Dominguez says she wants the school to come up with solutions for the issue before it gets even bigger.
Tuesday night, school leaders, security officers and city police came together to discuss their response to the violence.
It’s a move the mayor says is a step in the right direction.
“You have to confront it. You can’t pretend that it doesn’t exist,” said Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.
Parents say some of the subjects discussed in the meeting have calmed some of their fears.
“They are going to work with more cultural diversity in the classroom with the students, more community involvement with the community with the school,” said Michelle Smalls, parent.
Students were also asked to take a pledge called “Stop Hatin, No Mas”— vowing to put an end to the violence.
Police say they will continue to beef up patrols around the school until the end of the school year.
School officials released a statement saying, in part, they are “working proactively with students, parents, police and community partners to reinforce the expectation that students treat each other with respect.”
Schools are like the prisons, and not just in appearance. Interesting…..
This is all the obvious result of White Privilege.
So who are the racists and hate-crimers here? The blacks or the latinos?
MLK was an integrationist. Integration is combining two discrete elements into one i.e. MLK was a monoculturist. Multiculturalism promotes segregation. Segregation promotes racial tension.
High Schools today are nothing more than the AAA league for the Majors: the Federal Penitentiary system.
It would be interesting to know how many parents actually showed up, since the article didn’t mention it, there were most likely very few.
Yeah let’s make the kids take a pledge. “Stop Hatin,No Mas”.
That’ll solve the problem real quick.
Or in this case, White Hispanic Privilege.
Silly. It’s Whitey.
It’s ALWAYS Whitey.
In three generations Hispanics will be out of the ghetto, out of bad schools and out of high crime rate areas. They’ll own small businesses and be accepted by the larger community.
Blacks know this because every other minority group has done the same...
I suspect it makes them angry. Maybe democrats should feed blacks more lies and empty reassurances... that usually works. And it’s easier than telling blacks the truth... that the only way out is ‘effort’... not marching, or anger, or violence... but hard work, strong families and effort.
And the left mocked “Just Say No”.
What happens to “diversity is our strength” if we are supposed to be a monoculture? And whose culture is the mono (only) one? Hopefully not ghetto culture.
What happens to “diversity is our strength” if we are supposed to be a monoculture? And whose culture is the mono (only) one? Hopefully not ghetto culture.
So... they’re fighting about what group is the biggest victim of YT?
Yep. There will be a way to bring the two sides together, if they both point the finger at us evil whites.
Hispanics will become the new white...
In three generations Hispanics will be out of the ghetto, out of bad schools and out of high crime rate areas. They'll own small businesses and be accepted by the larger community.
Blacks know this because every other minority group has done the same...
It makes them angry - an impotent response. Should democrats feed blacks more lies and empty reassurances? That usually works. And it's easier than telling blacks the truth... that the only way out is ‘effort’... not marching, or anger, or violence... but hard work, strong families and effort.
Holder and 0bama can’t get a race war started between blacks and whites so he brought in the Hispanics.
The only ones the Blacks and Latinos hate more than the Whites are..................each other! This what happens when there is not enough room at the trough.
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