By Deepa Bharath, The Press-Enterprise
An African American student at Temecula Valley High School was targeted with a racist slur in graffiti scrawled across a pair of doors on campus last week, authorities and school officials said.
Solona Husband, a 17-year-old senior, believes the vandalism is retaliation for her protesting in September of a Confederate flag painted onto a student’s parking space and for her activism in the school’s Black Student Union on a campus that is 2.6% African American. …
White supremacy, xenophobia and intolerance have no place in America, especially in schools, Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Los Angeles chapter, said in a Saturday, Nov. 23, statement condemning the graffiti incident.
Ayloush said the act was more than “a juvenile prank.”
“This was a targeted message motivated by hatred and we ask that this crime be investigated and prosecuted as such,” he said.
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