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Students, Parents Concerned Over Racist Graffiti at California High School
NBC Bay Area ^ | 10/25 | Elyce Kirchner and Stephen Ellison

Posted on 10/25/2016 6:40:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Student confesses to one restroom incident while a second one is still being investigated

Racist graffiti found in the boys restroom at California High School in San Ramon.

Students, parents and school officials are concerned after racist graffiti was found written in the restrooms at California High School in San Ramon, even as one of the incidents apparently was resolved Tuesday.

Police and school officials were investigating the incidents in which the N-word was used in the girls restroom and the words "whites" and "colored" were scribbled above separate stalls in the boys restroom on the campus.

On Tuesday, a student came forward and confessed to the boys restroom incident that occurred last week, according to school officials. It's still not clear who is behind the girls restroom incident, and it is still being investigated.

Cal High student Alanah Winston, 17, says although she has seen racism regularly, she had never felt it on campus - until Monday.

"I deal with racism on a daily basis as a kid of color, as a minority," said Winston, who is one of about 100 black students at the school of 1,200 "And then just to see blatant hatred written there for you to see," she added, has stripped away that feeling of safety.

On Monday, when Winston saw the racist graffiti written in the girls bathroom, it made her extremely uncomfortable. When she went to ask school administrators to do something, she wasn’t happy with their response.

"I was somewhat dismissed," she said.

Elizabeth Graswich, spokeswoman for the San Ramon Valley Unified School District, said the initial report of the graffiti in the boys restroom last week was taken very seriously. School officials began an investigation immediately. She said the only evidence found from the boys restroom graffiti were photos "It was a challenging one to investigate because it was shared via social media, with no indicators other than that they said it was at California High School," Graswich said.

After the second incident, an email alert was sent out to parents.

"Not OK, not tolerated in this area," said parent Jacqui Gerbracht. "So I am actually pretty shocked that that would be put in our bathrooms."

Student Cherag Keswani said the actions of one make the students and their school look bad.

"Because we don’t know who that one person is, and we are kind of ashamed because we feel like, you know, we are better than that, really," Keswani said.

Winston said she just wants a resolution. "I just want action to be taken," she said. "I want this to be prevented."

Police and school officials said those found responsible for the graffiti could face criminal charges and expulsion from school. It had not yet been determined how the student who came forward Tuesday would be punished.


TOPICS: Education; Local News
KEYWORDS: fakehatecrime; fakehatecrimes; hoax

1 posted on 10/25/2016 6:40:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

And in a week or two we find out the black students did it themselves to ‘raise awareness.’

The initial story of the fake hate crime = national news.

Follow up story it was crank b.s. = local news only.


2 posted on 10/25/2016 6:42:53 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: nickcarraway

painting it over usually fixes this problem

some people think their feelings can never be hurt


3 posted on 10/25/2016 6:43:04 PM PDT by arl295
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To: nickcarraway

Oh holy moley......

Now we’re getting into what is written on bathroom walls????

do we really want to go there???

Any reports on the sexual graffiti on those walls??? Call Jenny at 867-5309, etc.??? Comments on the size of body parts of girls in school??? Comments on the girls in school who have gone on “dates” shall we say????

Comments on the various dirty words written describing sexual acts???

Not to trivialize racism, but, to go to the bathroom walls where obscenity is the norm, to find evidence of racism??? Really????


4 posted on 10/25/2016 6:47:36 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: nickcarraway
Winston said she just wants a resolution. "I just want action to be taken," she said. "I want this to be prevented."

"And", she added, "The college students at Berkeley have a good idea which I think we should adopt so that students of color can feel safe on campus - segregation now and segregation forever!"

5 posted on 10/25/2016 6:47:40 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: TigerClaws

98% chance this is what happened.
But will the culprit then be rightfully expelled from school. so as not to poison any more little minds?


6 posted on 10/25/2016 6:48:50 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: nickcarraway

San Ramon is major white bread wealth. Now with new Indian wealth. This kind of crap is definitely not a part of the zeitgeist there. Smells of a set up - it’s Hillary country.


7 posted on 10/25/2016 6:50:41 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: nickcarraway

The janitor did it.


8 posted on 10/25/2016 7:06:17 PM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: nickcarraway

H-O-A-X


9 posted on 10/25/2016 7:17:54 PM PDT by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison.)
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To: nickcarraway

Any bets on the race of the perp?


10 posted on 10/25/2016 7:49:26 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: 17th Miss Regt

Winston said she just wants a resolution. “I just want action to be taken,” she said. “I want this to be prevented.”


If somebody is in a bathroom stall, with a door closed, how the heck is anybody going to prevent this? By definition there will be no witnesses, no way to identify a perpetrator unless they confess.


11 posted on 10/25/2016 7:53:54 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

There you go again, using reason! Whassa matta witchu?


12 posted on 10/25/2016 8:04:36 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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