Oregon City High School Students Plan Walkout Over Racist Tweet

A photo of current and former Oregon City High School students that contained racist imagery and an epithet has other students organizing a brief walkout Thursday to show their displeasure with their colleagues.

"At 9:30 get up and leave your class and go out by the tree in front of the main entrance," one student tweeted. "This is in support of those who have been discriminated against and as well as to show that oc does not stand for the things that have been going on."

Students are saying that the protest will last 45 minutes. They will walk out at 9:30 and return to class at 10:15. They say they will not leave school property — just the building.

What set the protest in motion was a tweet earlier this week from a former Oregon City High School student posing with friends in the parking lot of the Oregon City Albertson's, standing in front of a handmade sign that contained Ku Klux Klan imagery and a racial epithet.

That tweet, which has since been made private, set off a firestorm on social media.

Since then, one of the students in the photo has apologized.

The woman — who tweets under @babykyliee23 — was one of six people welcoming a friend back from college, she says.

The person who was being welcomed home — @rachel_lynnnnn — tweeted a photo on Sunday of her and her friends in front of a hand-written sign that said "Welcome back to the farm (a variation of the N-word)" with a drawing of a person who appears to be a Klan member.

Above the photo she wrote: "I honestly couldn't ask for a better group of people to call my best friends! Probably good they didn't bring this sign into the airport!"

The woman who apologized said she had no idea what the poster said when she joined the picture.

"I only got in the picture because I was excited my friend was home from college," she tweeted.

"I apologize to every single person this offends. I screwed up by being in this picture and I know that but I can't change it as much as I wish I could. This is not the kind of person I am and/or want to make myself out to be. I apologize wholeheartedly."