A disturbing photo of high school students has parents and community leaders outraged after it went viral. Now, the Long Beach community is calling the Long Beach Unified School District to get to the bottom of things.
It all started when a student at Cabrillo High School showed the photo to his mother. “Yesterday my son showed me a picture circulating online of students at Cabrillo high school where ASB students gather together to form a derogatory statement in their shirts,” the parent wrote on social media, according to Fox 11 News.
The photo, which appears was taken during a school assembly in the gym, shows eight students— none of whom appear to be Black— all wearing t-shirts that spell out “i <3 n*gers.” The parent continued saying, “100s of parents were outraged as we have been emailing the district and school just to be hit with vague and AI-like responses.” It’s unclear when exactly the photo was taken,…