So many people have been involved in the rallies that the media have no choice but to report that these things are happening. However, the UAW retirees did show up with their banner. They came out because Jesse Jackson was a Black man marching for the Caterpillar work force on strike in 1994. Retirees remembered that. The media has tried to make this into a race issue which can divide people.
Race always has.
The rallies were trying to bring to light the school board policy. In fact, you saw white parents of kids who were expelled at the rallies while the media kept playing that tape of the fight over and over. One of the white parents filed a lawsuit on her own against the school board for expelling a student. Apparently one of the parents of one of the kids who got kicked out first went to the school board and tried to get it settled that way. The kid was actually running away from the fight.