Students Post “Whites Only” And “Blacks Only” Signs

May 19, 2022 Education, Racism

NBC News reports:

Students at a Cincinnati high school who taped “Blacks only” and “whites only” signs over water fountains and posted pictures of the signs on social media will be disciplined, the district announced after the incident was broadcast by a local news station.

Northwest Local School District said officials were made aware of the racist incident at Colerain High School on May 5.

The district started to investigate and learned that the signs over the water fountains were posted for about 30 seconds, while the students responsible took photos. They then took the signs down, and posted photos of their handiwork online.

The Washington Post reports:



The signs refer to segregation under Jim Crow laws. Some of the more notorious depictions of segregation include those of separate water fountains and bathrooms for Black and White people. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 made segregation illegal, though many states in the South were slow to comply.

A parent posted a screenshot of the social media post on her Facebook page last week, causing an uproar in the comments. It was shared about 150 times. Others, in interviews with WXIX, called the incident at their children’s school “offensive” and “a hate crime.”

The school district did not say how many students were disciplined or the punishments they received. Officials said that any student found to have shared the image or posted it online would also be subject to disciplinary action.

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