A banner at a Virginia high school intended to celebrate 2020's graduating class is being called racist after students noticed that seniors of color were grouped to create the dark outline of the school's logo.
A banner at a Virginia high school intended to celebrate 2020's graduating class is being called racist after students noticed that seniors of color were grouped to create the dark outline of the school's logo.
"They really used us as the shading? Cmon now," Yorktown High School senior Yoni Yohanness wrote in an Instagram story with a photo of the banner that was hung outside the school's football field. Students of color are clearly clustered to create the school's elaborate Y logo. The overlaid logo portion of the banner"masked the faces of many students including myself," Yohanness told NBC News., tweeted about the banner Wednesday, saying his photos were from May 15."The banner also does not include all members of the class, but repeats the photos of certain students," Ramos noted.
A banner honoring the senior class of Yorktown High School in Arlington, Va., ordered by the administration.Later that day, Yorktown's principal, Kevin Clark, tweeted that the banner had been taken down. "While we did not create this banner, we did review it and did not recognize that the background photo unintentionally grouped students by colors in their photos. Therefore, it appears that our students of color seem to make up the darker areas of the photo. Upon realizing our oversight, we immediately removed the banner and notified the printing company of this issue," Clark said in a statement.
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