Northside High School cheerleaders say they were the targets of racist taunts at a football game against Arlington Heights High School earlier this month.
Students and parents at a Fort Worth high school want the district to address what they call "systematic racism" in Fort Worth ISD.They say cheerleaders at Northside High School were the targets of racist taunts at a football game against Arlington Heights High School on September 13, while adults and school staff members did nothing.The Northside cheerleaders say they walked around to their opponent's side to offer a good luck token, as per tradition.
Northside High is 90 percent Hispanic. Arlington Heights' demographics include roughly 50 percent Hispanics, while the other 50 percent almost evenly represent white and African American students."Nobody should feel entitled enough to make fun of us like that just because of our skin color or where we came from. Most of us were born here and it really shouldn't make a difference where we come from," said one of the cheerleaders.
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