At Lancaster High School in California, a school assembly was held for white students alone. Only white students were invited, and non-white students (and a non-white staff member) who tried to enter the auditorium were turned away (administrators later said that was a misunderstanding).
“The meeting we had Thursday (April 17) was not meant to be exclusive and to shut doors,” Lancaster High Principal Bill Appleton said. “It was meant to be inclusive, to be sure we address the needs of a subgroup on campus [whites].
“There was a misperception of the meeting and that’s unfortunate,” the principal added. “The purpose was to address issues that are specific to a cultural group [whites], so they would be able to hear without feeling any degree of intimidation from anyone else [non-whites]. … I don’t think we ever anticipated that anyone else wanted to attend.”
Oh, wait. My mistake. I got the race wrong. The morning assembly was a meeting of the Black Students Union, for its members and other black students at the high school to “address issues specific to black students.” But it does make you wonder what the reaction would have been if it was a whites-only assembly. As it is, it certainly seems to have raised at least some fuss.