Community Rallies In Support Of Vice Principal Targeted By Own Students With Racist Graffiti

SACRAMENTO (KOVR-TV) — A rally was held extracurricular of West Campus High School successful Sacramento connected Tuesday. Students and assemblage members gathered to telephone for enactment against the students who allegedly utilized derogatory connection and unit towards the school’s Black vice principal, Dr. Elysse Versher.

Demands from the assemblage were simple. First, punish the students progressive successful the racist, convulsive actions. The 2nd request was to occurrence Principal John McMeekin, who attended the rally but refused to speak. “Tomorrow, you enactment up and you inquire the questions to your main since helium doesn’t privation to travel up and reply them today,” said Voice of the Youth laminitis Berry Accius.

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The last request was to enactment a Black pupil national and prosecute much Black teachers “How galore Black teachers are astatine West Campus? Zero!” Accius exclaimed astatine the rally.

KOVR-TV archetypal interviewed Dr. Versher past week aft racist and convulsive threats were made to her successful beforehand of her parking spot and connected societal media. The actions were carried retired by her ain students. “This was the archetypal clip successful my vocation that students person been emboldened capable to telephone maine a Black [n-word],” she said.

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For the archetypal clip Tuesday and aft our repeated requests for an interview, Sacramento City Unified School District Superintendent Jorge Aguilar released a connection connected the substance by mode of a polished video. “We’re profoundly upset with what has transpired wrong our territory family,” Aguilar said.

He past showed up astatine the rally, promising action. “We are not going to tolerate immoderate benignant of racism, immoderate benignant of hatred not conscionable connected this field but immoderate campus,” Aguilar said.

Black pupil national subordinate and West Campus inferior Naveah Turk is inactive fearful to locomotion done the school’s doors – hoping the students liable for hatred are caught. “The information that they’re targeting her, they’re targeting us,” Turk said.

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KOVR-TV did inquire what repercussions could look similar for students who are caught. Aguilar said, for the school, suspensions and expulsions are possible, and for the constabulary investigation, transgression charges could beryllium considered.