The images sent shockwaves across the area, with politicians and school officials strongly condemning the behavior. District officials are investigating the incident and are holding a town hall meeting. But some students weren't surprised.
An image from Twitter shows a swastika made from red plastic cups at a party said to involve high school students from the Newport-Mesa Unified School District.
At Newport Harbor, she said, students group themselves along racial lines: Hispanic students with other Hispanics, whites with whites. It is less intentional than unconscious, she said:"White people stay together, Mexicans stay together. We naturally just do it because we know that's the way it is." "They showed us graphic videos of the concentration camps," she said."It's not like our teachers need to show us anymore about the Holocaust. They knew what it means."
"Their excuse is they were just drunk," she added,"but they obviously took the time to make the cups into a swastika." Hernandez is trans and said his teachers supported him and helped allay his fears of coming out. Hernandez has no answers for how students from his former school arrived at an embrace of Nazi imagery. But he recalled the distance his classmates tried to put between themselves and racist jokes they cracked.On Monday, Newport Harbor students poured out of school buildings wearing every shade of blue as an act of solidarity with the Jewish community.
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