A FORUM FOR COMMUNITY ISSUES : Youth / OPINION : North Hollywood High: Reaching ‘A Boiling Point’
<i> Compiled by Erik Hamilton and Danica Kirka for The Times</i>
ERNESTO AREVALO, Junior, 17
It’s racism that’s causing the problems at this school. I don’t hate anyone. I believe in live and let live. I have lots of black friends, and we talked about what happened. We don’t understand why people have to beat each other up. The school needs to talk about this. We have to understand why this happened. But I don’t think having the cops here will help anything. I think the cops make things worse. We (blacks and Latinos) don’t need tension now. We need to relax and talk.
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