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who attended the brand new Alisal High School, Alisal, CA, a suburb/town to Salinas, that had only one black student my entire 4 years there (grad 1969). My husband, attended North Salinas High, (grad 1967) had a few black students then. Salinas was very segregated to African Americans, but there were lots of Mexican Americans. My husband and his friends, lots of other high schoolers, worked in the fields before and after school along with Mexican Americans field workers. We moved to Fresno in the early1980's biggest mistake of our lives, politically.
Clovis is Maga republican from the school superintendent, school board, principals, teachers, mayor, city council, etc. If the officials running the event, had anything to do with Clovis, there was racism involved. They just saw a snooty black kid from the coast. Salinas is/was less than 15 minutes to good beaches/surfing, hubby was a surfer. We had the fog and wind, could almost set your clock by it. If it was a white central valley boy, who did the fire extinguisher stunt, the Clovis officials, would have praised him.
I am 100% white, according to 23 and me, my husband is Irish, German and Sicilian, who tans very easily. Both of our daughters experienced racism in the Fresno school district. Our kids were asked by kids in elementary school, if they were black, Mexican or adopted because I have blond hair and green eyes. Both of them have a naturally dark skin tone, and brown hair. My oldest daughter, whose hair was brown/black, with a dark olive summer tan, was asked by a professor at Fresno state, if she was black, in front of the class, who knows why, he was probably from Clovis. Ugh. this area is so full of racism.
Thank goodness, we live in a somewhat liberal area. Sorry for the long boring story. I can't make short quips, that really explain what I am trying to share.