INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY

Hey Bigot, Leave Our Kids Alone

A speaker’s comments to the LAUSD School Board and a murder in Lake Arrowhead highlight the fact that hateful rhetoric has consequences.

“LAUSD Board Members…you and your LAUSD colleagues so graciously hid behind ANTIFA.”

– Speaker at LAUSD Board Meeting

Just a few days earlier, Laura Ann Carleton had been murdered in cold blood for the crime of flying the Gay Pride Flag in front of her store in Lake Arrowhead. This blatant assault on the civil rights of the LGBTQ+ community and their allies did not seem to weigh on the conscience of this speaker as she stood at the podium in the LAUSD Board Room. Wearing a white t-shirt emblazoned with “Leave Our Kids Alone,” the uniform of those who violently protested in front of Saticoy Elementary School in June, the self-described parent never mentioned the bloodshed spilled in the name of her cause. Instead, she blamed the violence at this rally on ANTIFA.