Tag: racism

The Santee City Council on June 24 unanimously passed a resolution affirming the city’s commitment to promoting tolerance and denouncing racism stating in part that Santee  “condemns White Nationalism, White Supremacy and denounces the use of symbols associated with these groups, including, but not limited to swastikas or hoods.” The resolution language alludes to two separate May incidents in which...

Santee mayor John Minto on Wednesday recommended adding more representatives to the city’s Community Oriented Policing Committee. The request came during the city council meeting and was a response to recent events in which two men were seen in Santee stores wearing attire considered racist and anti-Semitic. On May 2 pictures of a man wearing a Ku Klux Klan-style white hood shopping at a Vons...