KENTWOOD, Mich. (WOOD) — Public comment at the Forest Hills Public Schools Board of Education meeting lasted nearly two hours Monday evening as angry students, parents and community members sounded off about a recent incident in which a high school student put dark brown makeup on his face.
The incident involving a senior at Forest Hills Northern happened earlier this month. The student, who is white, put makeup for dark complexions on his face in an apparent attempt to make himself appear black. Photos were posted online and were soon shared thousands of times. Offended students and community members said it was an example of blackface.
“We should not be comfortable with these types of behaviors that are essentially rooted in white nationalism and white supremacy,” Cle Jackson, the president of the Grand Rapids chapter of the NAACP, told board members Monday at the packed meeting at Meadowbrook Elementary.
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