“White Pride” Causes Concern at Local School

By Chelsea Hawkins

City on a Hill Press

Published June 2, 2011 at 2:35 am

While the UC Santa Cruz community addresses the discovery of racially insensitive graffiti around campus, Soquel High School students are facing racially insensitive writing and activities promoting “white power.”

According to a letter to the community from Soquel High School principal Ken Lawrence-Emanuel, a group of students at the school have identified themselves as “WP” for “white pride” or “white power.” In addition to slogans associated with white supremacist groups, swastikas have been found throughout the school — from crudely drawn on pieces of paper to carved into desks.

“When specific students were identified, we contacted the students and talked with them about the power of words and symbols and warned them this behavior would not be tolerated on our campus,” Lawrence-Emanuel’s letter said.

The issue boiled over after students wearing white shirts and bandanas stood as a group in the senior class picture — again, as a statement of “white power.”

A student-initiated rally was recently held in protest of the actions of the select students who have participated in the “white power” demonstrations.

“The students proceeded to the gym and the overall message of the student speakers was: we need to take a stand against this,” Lawrence-Emanuel’s letter said. “This is not the adults’ problem; it is our problem. We don’t want racist behavior on our campus and we all need to speak out against it.”

Many students saw the display of white pride as offensive and spoke out against it.

“The students in attendance understood this was not about freedom to wear what you want,” Lawrence-Emanuel’s letter said. “This was about having a school where everyone is protected from harassment.”

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http://twitter.com/gronquil Gregory Ronquillo

Indeed, what a shame it is that kids can’t start White Power groups at their high school. First they take their white power t-shirts and bandannas, what’s next? Their knives so they won’t be able to carve swastikas into their desks? GRRR only in Obama’s America.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WZX4TPM2UEB64LRI4UWG7C3NX4 Cindyz

This is part of an article I wrote some time ago about the problem of what “Color Pride” leads to. Although some may think this does not apply to what is being said above, it does. These types of incidents many years ago is actually WHY gangs were formed to begin with. Now MANY years later this is what gangs, in a nutshell, are today. My hope is by spreading the truth about how gangs operate and the way they lie using “Color Pride” as a means in which to do this. I am not in anyway saying these students were involved in any of the following activities, I want them as well as others to know that there are those out there that WILL use their “Color Pride” against them in a manner that is so cunning they will not see it comming until it is too late. My hope is to avoid that for as many young people as I can. If one young person reads this and does not go down that road, all the years of research of I did will be worth it!

This pride that pride is all the same BS that top level gang bangers use to pump up lower level gang bangers and younger kids that look up to gangs and want to be a member into thinking that the lawless, heartless, hurtful, harmful, vicious, malicious, acts they are doing are ok because they are doing them for their race. That IS a fact. There is another very true fact that I wish young gang bangers and young wanna bes should know. All of the gang so called soldiers are nothing more than punks that do the dirty work of the gang shot callers that do not want to get their hands dirty or thier finger prints on anything that could possibly send them to jail.   They have plenty of punks to do that for them and more lined up at age 8 and 9 ready to step up and do whatever for which ever “Color Pride”.

When a lower level gang member goes to prison to spend probably the rest of his life in prison away from his family, the so-called-gang family is no where to be found.   They do not write them. They damn sure do not want to go see them in prison because you don’t just walk into a prison to visit someone. You have to apply to see an inmate in most prisons. If you think I am wrong, make a few calls or check the prison website. The information is there. High level gang members or any other gang member do not want to be seen or known for visiting a validated gang member in prison!      In some cases, it may take months for an inmates blood relative to get permission to visit if they ever do if that relative has ever been in ANY trouble. The prison looks at it as once a trouble maker always a trouble maker. The prison does not want to deal with trouble makers so they will just deny you! Hope it is not your brother sittin in prison that you may NEVER see again! That IS the result of gang life. Prison or death, When a lower level gang member or punk goes to jail and was maybe giving some of the money they earned selling drugs or stealing cars made them to their family and then that money stops going to the family do any of the gang members check with the families to see how they are doing without their loved ones?    Hell no! They could care less. They are too busy worrying about whose house they were planning a drive by on, or how many kilos of cocaine they think they can sell now until they replace the punk that is now in prison because they were busted selling coke.

If all these people had so much “Color Pride” they would stop all the negative nonsense against their fellow man no matter what the color of their skin is, quit being a follower and have pride in who they are as a person. Make their race proud by actually doing something with good with their life instead of stabbing others in the back or shooting someone in the head because they were told too!   Stop having pride in some gang that uses you, abuses you, makes you chose the gang over your blood family, and makes you submit to their will, rules, and lawlessness.   Stand tall, be a man or a woman that is a citizen and that YOU and YOUR FAMILY is proud of you before it is to late!   We are all human! The human RACE!   But with all the racism, we may as well be aliens from many different planets! I do not care if you are a white supremisist, a skin head, a member of a black gang or a hispanic gang, It all needs to stop. You are hurting innocent people! For NOTHING! You are hurting innocent people for WORDS and because someone told you to have “Color Pride”. Does that make sense? You are no better than anyone else whatever their color. You make think different, but I guarentee the WORLD knows different!   I see in the very near future people are going to get fed up with the militant style violence that gangs cause. They are the same as terriosts! Spreading terror through neighborhoods through out the nation. Soon the general public will begin to treat them as such! I can’t wait for the day!