Between 200 and 250 students at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts walked out of class around noon today as part of a larger ICE Out protest happening at schools around DFW.
Booker T. Washington High School student Cat Krankota speaks from a stage at Klyde Warren Park and she and more than 200 other Booker T. students walked out of classes today to protest ICE.
According to Dallas Morning News, hundreds of students in DISD participated in the ICE Out protests today despite threats from Gov. Greg Abbott and other GOP state leaders to punish schools where such walk-outs happened by withholding state funds from those schools.
Grayson McFerrin Hogan, center with the whiteT-shirt and holding the sign that says “Anti-Fascism is Hot,” was one of the students who organized the ICE Out student protest at Booker T. Washington High School today. He said students Bo;oker T students were protesting because “It is our duty to stand up for those who cannot stand up for themselves.”
Grayson McFerrin Hogan, who worked with fellow student Cat Krankota to organize the walk-out at Booker T. Washington, said: “We feel, as Texan students, it is our duty to stand up for those who cannot stand up for themselves, to speak for those whose voices have been censored, to fight for those who have been killed for just trying to live. … Because we know better than anyone that art and culture are catalysts for change, we will be fighting through spoken word, visual art, music and dance.”
The Booker T. students marched from their school, at 2501 Flora St., about a mile to Klyde Warren Park, located at 2012 Woodall Rodgers Freeway. Then, a witness said, the rally at the park “turned into another march” as the students began circling the park.
(Video and photos courtesy of Laura McFerrin Hogan)
— Tammye Nash
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