Photos and a video posted online that show several white Chicago-area high school students in blackface has led school officials to condemn the incident and caused outrage among classmates, who staged a walkout Tuesday.
In the photos posted over the weekend on Facebook, three Homewood-Flossmoor High School students are seen in a car with their faces painted black.
To protest the social media posts, roughly a thousand of students walked out Tuesday around 12 p.m. chanting"We want justice" and"No place for blackface," according to theIn a letter sent Sunday to parents and students, Homewood-Flossmoor High School said school officials had met with those involved in the"culturally insensitive" incident.
Based on information supplied by the school, there are almost 3,000 students at Homewood-Flossmoor and almost 70 percent of the student body is African American. Due to confidentiality laws, the school could not say whether disciplinary action will be taken against the teenagers.
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