Emilie Raguso and Lance Knobel report:
Berkeley High School administrators say they have identified the student responsible for a “screen hack” in the library Wednesday that displayed racist threats against African Americans.
Berkeley High Principal Sam Pasarow said, during a press conference Thursday afternoon, that a student, believed to have been acting alone, was responsible for the message.
The press event followed a peaceful protest and walkoutundertaken by more than 700 students earlier in the day.
Read more on Berkeleyside.
The students and teachers who walked effectively gave the hacker power over them
Had they not walked out, the hacker’s only legacy would have been a disciplinary file collecting dust in a school archive.
That’s certainly one way to look at it. How about this: it gave hundreds of students a chance to stand up and be counted against racism in a peaceful way? I’m glad the students sent the hacker, the school, their peers, and the world that message.