For many students across the country, this is suppose to be a special time of year.
No matter if it’s elementary, middle school, high school or college, there’s students all over graduating at some level.
However, in the case of high school graduate Nyree Holmes, his experience was like none other. As the 18-year-old crossed the stage, he was escorted by multiple officers for not removing his African kente cloth.
“I go through shaking all the hands and smiling feeling as if I won,” Holmes wrote Tuesday on Twitter, according to the Atlanta Black Star. “Then when I get to the stairs I see three sheriffs at the bottom of the stairs. They tell me to leave with them and I said, ‘sure guys let’s go.'”
As Holmes tried to retrieve his diploma, school officers were not going, but thanks to a black security guard, the scholar was able to obtain his much deserved diploma.
“I wanted to wear my kente cloth as a representation of my pride in my ancestors, to display my cultural and religious heritage,” he told the online publication. “As my particular cloth was made by Christians in Ghana, where the kente cloth has been worn by royalty and during important ceremonies for hundreds if not thousands of years.”
Cosumnes Oaks high school should be ashamed of themselves for this level of pettiness.