Friends, when we find ourselves faced with racist or discriminatory speech and/or actions, what do we DO?
Recently, Princeton HS sophomore Jamaica Ponder was horrified to see a series of images shared on social media which depicted a game amongst her peers which involved both anti-Semitic and racist tropes. In her blog post responding to this event and the resulting images, Jamaica shared:
I know I’m not the only one who saw this Snapchat story. Yet here I am, the only one saying anything about it. I am unsure as to what’s worse: the static silence from my peers, or the fact that this happened in the first place.
Read the full blog post here. How do you think you would have responded, if faced with a similar situation?