High School Students for Change
Rocklin High Students Gather in a Peaceful Protest for Peace and Equality
November 28, 2016
A stereotype about the younger generations might be materialistic obsessions and a lack of interest in politics. But some students at Rocklin High are just about as tired of this stereotype as they are about having to continuously fight for their rights, especially with some of the views of the new president.
That is why they chose to gather in a peaceful protest on Friday, the 18 of November, to advocate for love, peace and equality.
Many of the views shared by the Trump-Pence presidency and the majority of their supporters are threatening to many minority groups such as people of color, women, the LGBT+ community and religious minorities.
Although Trump has claimed to be supportive of the LGBT+ community, it has been made clear that both Trump and Pence are advocates of conversion therapy, a form of psychological treatment to change a person’s sexual orientation.
Furthermore, his attempts of deporting immigrants and keeping Muslims out of the country have worried many people who may be affected by these changes.
These are some of the main reasons the protesters were trying to bring attention to the fact that by the next election in 2020, most of the student body will be eligible to vote. Therefore the protesters were urging them to do so in order to avoid another presidency that feeds the hatefulness of its supporters.
Junior Cinthya Juaregui disclosed that, “The protesters called for the [support of bystanders] by asking them to ‘Honk for Hillary’”.
There were also students who joined in on singing the songs “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”, “Beyond the Sea” and (almost started singing) “Imagine” by John Lennon to convey their message, as Maya Amyx, a sophomore, played the ukulele.
As the future of the country, it is important for us to be aware of the politics whether or not they have a huge impact on our lives.
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
Alejandro Gonzales • Feb 5, 2018 at 7:31 am
Somebody in the know. That wasn’t sarcastic, by the way. Never thought I would a comment with that much intelligence on The Flash.
person • Dec 2, 2016 at 12:39 pm
Agreed this is outrageous. smh.
Stop The Flash Bias • Nov 28, 2016 at 7:39 pm
Corrections to previous comment.
Gramatical: Their should be there, first paragraph change to ” Not to mention as I will point out a majority of the “facts” in this article and others are plain wrong.”
Spelling: Change uniformed to uninformed – autocorrect, sigh.
If any other errors I apologize but really have spent too much time on this today and still have a lot of homework.
Addition – Forgot to add this, it is important:
Also wanted to respond to a somewhat deceptive claim in Black and Blue Nation, the author claims we can “see 12 year olds being killed just for being black and playing with toys.” I assume he is referring to the Tamir Rice incident. It should be noted that Tamir was not just “playing with toys” he was using a modified airsoft gun (the orange tip which shows law enforcement the gun is fake, was removed) and was pointing it at nearby pedestrians. This is what triggered the 911 call leading to his death in the first place. Most parents always tell their children, “Never point a gun toy or real at anything you don’t intend to shoot.” I think if anything this incident reinforced how important that is. Imagine you are a police officer and you pull up and see a teen boy pulling out what looks exactly like a real gun, you have to look at both sides here. I am not advocating either way but I think to just say he was killed for just “being black and playing with toys” is too far.
Stop The Flash Bias • Nov 28, 2016 at 6:55 pm
This is truly getting ridiculous.
The Flash has turned into a far left “news-organization.” 80% of the articles are obviously biased and unprofessional. A majority of the articles on here are anti-Trump, I see so many ‘Trump Scandal’ articles, but no Hillary email articles? I spent a lot of time and energy on writing this after reading the above article. Even after the election the tremendous bias is troubling and needs to be corrected. I am a logical person and only use evidence in the form of facts and public data to support my arguments vs an astonishing lack of evidence on many articles on here. Not to mention as I will point out in this a majority of the “facts” are plain wrong.
First, this article. Trump has NEVER EVER supported conversion therapy. Mike Pence has never even publicly promoted conversion therapy. He once supported the use of federal funding to help people “seeking to change their sexual behavior.” He has NEVER said he supports the use of gay conversion. Research before writing your articles.
Second, Trump is not deporting immigrants. He has called for deporting illegal immigrants, and has actually show support for people to come to the US LEGALLY. Also most recently he has made clear that the ban would be reduced to “Extreme Vetting” of people coming from high terrorist risk areas such as Syria. Lastly Trump has many supporters from minority groups, LGBT, and women. In fact Trump has been a major proponent of repairing America’s inner cities and supporting African American families.
Now about The Flash magazine. BIASED. Seriously it is so biased even a left leaning outlet like CNN would not publish it.
1. Black and Blue Nation: Are America’s streets the new death row?
This is probably the worst one. Firstly I am not a racist, a lot of my closest friends are of various ethnic backgrounds. That being said this article is just a blatant attack on the men and women who give their lives to protect us everyday. Freddie Gray was not arrested for “making eye contact” he did make eye contact with police and then proceeded to run away from police without provocation, he had an illegal switchblade on him in addition to a prior criminal record with a total of 20 criminal court charges. I’ll admit the police should have more closely followed the new procedure for transporting criminals but there was no lethal response for “making eye contact.” Mario Woods was not killed for walking away from police, HE WAS WIELDING A KNIFE, police repeatedly instructed him to drop the knife and used non-lethal bean bag rounds to try to deescalate the situation. If he would have simply dropped the knife he would not have been killed, he was not killed for being black. Lastly Laquan McDonald was also wielding a knife. Same thing, all you have to do is drop the weapon when police tell you to. It is not because he is black. You also argue a disproportionate number of African Americans are killed by police each month. In reality this is not entirely true. According to The Washington Post’s database (see I am using evidence) African Americans made up 26% of the people killed by police in 2015, which is indeed disproportionate (African American’s make up roughly 13% of the population in the US) but you are forgetting a major factor. African Americans in general commit more crime, I am not being racist, that is what the FBI data says (once again using evidence). In fact out of all violent crimes in which someone was charged, African Americans were charged with 62% of robberies, 57% of murders and 45% of assaults in the country’s 75 biggest counties — despite the fact that black Americans made up just 15 percent of the population in those places. If you are seriously worried about driving just because you think you will be killed by police in Rocklin you are very uniformed. We are very lucky to have some of the best police officers in the entire US, in fact Rocklin PD according to capradio.co has *not once* used firearms on any suspect armed or unarmed since 2012. You should be thankful we live in such a safe community where we do not have to worry about violence. Thank you Rocklin PD for your service to our city, and for keeping us safe everyday.
This marks the end of the huge argument, I will keep it shorter from now on.
2. You Throw Like A GIRL: Do gender stereotypes really affect sports?
This article really disproves itself. Note: I am not sexist either, I have the upmost respect for women and women have made tremendous contributions to society. The reason why women athletes are not paid as much as male athletes is already stated in the article, they are not as popular. Once again not sexist at all, this is merely a fact the author already stated. It is the reason why popular movie stars get paid more then actors nobody knows about, everyone will pay to see a new movie with say Dwayne Johnson (the most paid actor of 2016) but not many will pay to see a new movie with someone they never heard of. Also sexism is defined as discrimination against women, so using the term is somewhat incorrect as women are not being discriminated in this case (they still play the game and it is televised), just their pay is not as great because similar to everything else in a capitalistic society, the more demand their is for something the higher the price. Simple.
3. Visible Youth: First, this author actually did a fairly good job presenting everything in a relatively unbiased manner. Note I am not homophobic either, and support people who choose to come out, but I think the data is very iffy. Seriously 1 in 6 people at RHS are a part of the LGBT? That would come out to more then 300 students at RHS. Are you sure? I find this very hard to believe as I am a very social person and even counting all the grade levels, I probably have heard of – let alone know personally less than 30 members of the LGBT. Also although I would say the majority of RHS supports the LGBT, this topic like many others can be very controversial, especially as a conservative.
4. #Feminist: Parts of this article are extremely offensive to around 1/2 of the school. Why? In the question part above the article it says mid sentence “So they [men] don’t hurt their tiny brains.” Seriously who is the editor for this magazine? I was appalled and disgusted when I read this, especially sine it is a school sponsored media. Even if you use the argument that this is supposedly true, you would still be false as a team of neuroscientists from the University of California and Madrid found in a study that female brains are typically eight percent smaller than those of males, although they were of equal intelligence due to higher efficiency in female brains. The rest of the article is fine, although I doubt the district is sexist towards women’s golf given the liberal agenda of the school.
Although a few of the other articles have some controversial aspects I have already spent too much time writing this that should have been allotted to AP work. I really hope that The Flash works to improve their completely biased and uniformed articles. It is really detrimental to the work and credibility of journalism at our school, I am all for free speech but news organizations need to make sure to have non biased information from both sides of the argument in order to ensure that people respect and appreciate their work. I ask simply this, may The Flash consider my points and keep them in mind when writing their next issue as the direction they are currently heading in is one that is unfairly biased towards the left and one that promotes stories that could be offensive to some students here at RHS, a school where we pride ourselves on equality and achievement for all.