This message went viral Monday at Brien McMahon High School, Norwalk Branch NAACP Youth President Darius Williams said.NORWALK, Conn. — A planned protest of Donald Trump’s election was stopped Monday by Brien McMahon High School administrators.
Students had planned a peaceful walkout at 1:30 p.m., spreading a message that said, “He is a threat to the Latino and black communities we are in danger starting this week we are no longer safe.”
“Yes, school administrators at Brien McMahon did hear about a possible student walk out planned to take place today during school hours,” NPS Communications Director Brenda Wilcox Williams said Monday. “Students were told that a protest such as the one planned can’t take place during the school day, when it would disrupt instructional time. Students are free to organize events or other forms of expression outside of school hours.”
“The youth felt really hurt by the results of the election,” said Jalin Sead, a Democratic Town Committee member, Monday. “They couldn’t participate in the election because of their age, but their future was effected last Tuesday when Trump won. A lot of things were said this campaign season, and the youth were listening. I’m working with the youth and other community members to come up with ways to productivity work with this new administration to get the best results.”
“We do not feel protected and we have to show it, we have to speak up and stand for what we believe in,” the text said.
“There are a lot of people who were planning to participate in the peaceful protest,” Norwalk Branch NAACP Youth President Darius Williams, a BMHS student, said Tuesday. “Right before that time, there was an announcement made over the loudspeaker by our housemasters who were informed of the situation. There were police outside and housemasters to make sure that no students left the premises. You know, they are doing their job.”
“There was no police involvement,” Wilcox Williams said Monday.
Trump’s victory was “just completely unfathomable,” Darius Williams said Tuesday.
“It was great to see that so many people were willing to fight for something that they believed in. Even if Donald Trump wasn’t going to hear what we had to say or anyone in his cabinet was going to hear what we had to say. Just so that our young people fought for something that they believed in. That was a great thing.
“I called a lot of my friends who are Hispanic and they were in tears. Their parents were in tears, crying sobbing,” Williams said, adding that a friend of his who is attending Harvard is worried that she won’t be able to finish her freshman year because she is undocumented.
“It was very disheartening to hear, and very disheartening that the Electoral College voted for someone, and someone else’s cabinet, who doesn’t believe in rights for women, rights for people who are part of the LGBT, poor people who are minorities. It was very sad and very shocking,” Williams said.
The text had gone viral, he said.
“It was great to see that so many people were willing to fight for something that they believed in. Even if Donald Trump wasn’t going to hear what we had to say or anyone in his cabinet was going to hear what we had to say. Just so that our young people fought for something that they believed in. That was a great thing,” Williams said.
How many?
“If there were people who knew they would not be penalized, a great handful,” Williams said. “I think more than over 100 people.”
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