The Brief
- An offensive article from the 1940s using the N word was mistakenly included in the Montclari Elementary School yearbook.
- Volunteers putting together the yearbook missed the content and scanned the entire article into hundreds of copies.
- The PTA has reordered new yearbooks and the president apologized.
OAKLAND, Calif. – Parents at an Oakland elementary school made a shocking discovery in their children’s yearbook this year: a racial slur from a 1940’s newspaper article.
The offensive language was buried in an old article republished in this year’s Montclair Elementary School yearbook.
The article, originally printed in the Montclarion, included the term “N-word babies” in reference to a carnival game once held at school’s annual Otterwalk.…