Washington Post: ‘Racism is a taught behavior’: High-schoolers disciplined for wearing white robes and a hood on ‘Spirit Day’

By Native News Online Staff - December 25, 2019 at 12:18PM

A viral image showed two Wyoming students wearing white robes to school. (Facebook/Micah Lott)

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Published December 25, 2019

By Tim Elfrink Washington Post

The two students stormed through the front doors at Riverton High School on Wednesday with wide grins on their faces. Both wore white robes, and the boy in front had a tall, pointy hood. He wore a large cross around his neck and waved an American flag.

When Micah Lott saw a viral image of the students later that morning, he had no doubt that they had dressed as Ku Klux Klan members — a choice all the more shocking in Riverton, a small Wyoming town surrounded by the Wind River Indian Reservation.

“I was surprised to see something this blatant,” Lott, 26, a member of the Northern Arapaho Tribe and a Native American rights activist, told The Washington Post. “Racism is a taught behavior. We have to acknowledge what we’re teaching our children and how it’s continuing this cycle in our country.”

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