Amid national media attention following a viral racist attack on Nov. 15, minority students spark community-wide discussion about how to combat underlying normalized racism at East moving forward through awareness, clubs and policy at the student, school and district levels. “The video was just a turning point,” senior Jax Taylor, a Black student who spoke at the student-led walkout on Nov. 28, said. “If people never get called out, they’ll keep thinking that what they’re doing is OK. They might make fun of you, which sucks, and they might not change. But they could. We called someone out for making jokes at the walkout, and he apologized.” During senior Natalia Rios’ sophomore year, a student told her she “crawled across the border and ran past border patrol” to get to East. She’s Latino and has been called a bea*** and alien in the halls. Junior Kevin Gomez received an anonymous voicemail telling him to “go back to where he came from.” Both Rios and Gomez spoke at the walkout and b...