Pittsburg Students Protest, Demand More Action Against Classmate Who Wore KKK Costume

Anger boiled implicit astatine Pittsburg High School Monday arsenic students demanded much enactment beryllium taken against a classmate who wore a KKK outfit to schoolhouse past week.

The schoolhouse has not revealed the nonstop punishment, but chap students accidental they've learned the lad was suspended for 3 days and those who marched successful protestation Monday accidental helium needs to beryllium expelled and publically apologize.

“I deliberation helium should beryllium expelled,” said pupil Jordan. “He shouldn’t beryllium allowed to travel backmost to schoolhouse due to the fact that the outrage down his costume is precise racist. It’s highly disrespectful to each students, radical of color, constituent blank period.”

At lunch, students demonstrated some extracurricular and wrong the school, blasting the territory for not taking the incidental much seriously. 

In a missive to the assemblage past week, the Pittsburg High main said the pupil wore the KKK costume “on a dare” and didn’t get caught for 4 periods due to the fact that helium lone wore it concisely betwixt classes.

The missive goes connected to accidental the suspended pupil and those that showed up with him connected societal media posts person been fixed unspecified consequences and volition person to be a restorative justness program. 

Many chap students are not satisfied.  

“We request much justness and helium did not -- helium needs much consequences,” said pupil Kaliyah, adding she thinks the protestation helped. 

“I conscionable can’t judge idiosyncratic would really deterioration that to schoolhouse and deliberation that’s OK,” said pupil August. “And it’s conscionable the information a fewer achromatic kids would really instrumentality pictures with him that’s truly unacceptable close there.”

Parents and household members who were picking up their children Monday said they consciousness the aforesaid way.

“People judge this benignant of happening and accidental it was a joke,” said grandparent Howard Farmer. “There’s nary mode you tin gag similar that. It’s similar pointing a loaded weapon successful someone’s face.” 

Some students said they heard the pupil who wore the KKK costume and was suspended for 3 days has present been told to enactment distant for 5 days.

NBC Bay Area reached retired to the territory to effort to corroborate that and to get an update connected the wide concern but has not heard back.