BHS investigates racist, anti-Semitic Instagram account run by students — Berkeleyside

29.9.17

BHS investigates racist, anti-Semitic Instagram account run by students — Berkeleyside: “Some of them were our friends, people whose houses we went to, people we got lunch with, people we thought were cool,” wrote junior Laelah Jackson, 15, in an email to Berkeleyside. “And to find out how they truly act and feel hurts.”

On Monday, members of the Black Student Union put out a call for anyone involved in or affected by the revelation to come to their meeting Tuesday.

“Fortunately, both those affected and those accused showed up, as well as many more students and faculty,” Jackson wrote. During the meeting, some admitted culpability, and in Jackson’s view “some of them did seem sorry, and some did not.” As the students filtered out of the meeting, a black student got in a “physical altercation” with one of the white creators of the Instagram page, ultimately hitting him.