Chicago City Wire

Marist High School is being lambasted for caving to a handful of students who turned a disagreement over musical taste into a race-based argument.

Marist High School released a statement saying the school “has work to do'' following a student protest accusing dancegoers at homecoming of a case of what appears to be phantom racism. 

“@MaristChicago is another Chicagoland Catholic school that should just renounce its affiliation with the Church and redefine itself, ahem, for what it is a private school rooted in Marxist doctrine that caters to feelings not truth,” Chicago Morning Answer host Dan Proft said on Twitter.

The Daily Mail said the school is “bending to a woke mob” after launching an investigation and missing an apology following what appears to be a misunderstanding. 

“As communicated to our school community yesterday. Marist High School conducted an investigation related to a reported incident at the October 9 Homecoming dance. We did so to ensure the investigation was based on facts and not a rush to judgement. We share our preliminary findings,” Marist said in a press release.  

The high school admits some students' actions over the music played at the dance was a sign of cultural disrespect. 

Video was released of students kneeling and making motions for the DJ to turn the track during "Payaso De Rodeo." 

Some students apparently saw the act as racist as the song was only one of a few Spanish language tracks played for the evening. 

Fox 32 Chicago released other video showing the students making the same motions during a variety of other songs, not just Spanish language tracks. 

"There were other times at this dance that the students were protesting the music being played," DJ Brian Stepanek told Fox 32 Chicago. 

Stepanek added that it was nearly impossible to please the 800 teenagers in attendance.  

“Although these are the facts, we recognize there are still students at Marist who viewed this video or who were at the Homecoming dance that were students who left the homecoming dance hurt by what they witnessed shows us that there is work to do,” Marist said.

The high school added that it had been the target of threats following the protest. 

“In response to external threats, Marist High School is taking steps to keep our children safe by increasing our current internal security staff and maintaining close contact with District 22 of the Chicago Police Department,” Marist said in the statement.