Titled “Racist Incident Roils Pa. High School” the Associated Press article describes a part of the school parking lot where students wearing Confederate flags exclusively park their trucks at Warkwick High School, a mostly white, affluent school. Parents of students of color stated they made complaints about the hostile environment this created, but the school defended the actions as protected by the First Amendment. Not until racial slurs targeting the students of color came to the attention of staff did the school respond, and the response seems more motivated by rumors of threats of violence than acknowledgment that the school allowed a racist environment to exist. The Superintendent’s lack of response until this week was explained as such: “Perhaps we were lulled into a false sense that our school district was immune to racism and bigotry.” Unfortunately this is an example of the racial realist/colorblind paradigm that exists across the country, a false belief that the civil rights movement changed the minds of people to believe that the movement achieved equality amongst all people. The district’s response at the parent meeting was to blame the students for not coming forward as an excuse for the school’s failure to address the hostile school environment. See Jon Hanson, Kathleen Hanson, The Blame Frame: Justifying (Racial) Injustice In America, 41 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 413 (2006). Clearly, this story and many others from schools across our nation indicate that to this day, youth do not think whites and people of color are equal. Incidents like this and more violent displays of racism by young people should demonstrate to school administrators that by turning a blind eye, they have a hand in perpetuating racial hostility.