Woke teens erupt after conservative students at Portland’s most diverse school sets up Charlie Kirk club

Woke teenagers at one of Portland’s most diverse high school shut down its first meeting of a Turning Point USA chapter – prompting conservative community members to descend on the school.

Students at David Douglas High School had set up a chapter of Club America, the high school club under the late Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA umbrella, and had gotten approval for its creation by school administrators, the Oregonian reports.

But when the club held its first meeting on October 8, dozens of students from the Black Student Union and the Latino Student Union turned up – sparking safety concerns from the chapter’s founder.

The minority students said they had feared the new school club would cause division.

‘The concern is that we might end up with a radicalized right group in our school, and with, you know, all the diversity that we have here, that’s a real threat,’ student Micah Coleman told KATU.

When news of the high school club’s troubled start then hit social media, conservative activists urged an in-person show of support for the chapter’s teen founder.

Footage showed about 40 adults showed up to the after-school rally and started waving American flags on the property.

‘We can disagree about the politics of this,’ protester James Saint said, describing the club members as ‘a group of people that enjoy [where] they live, the freedom that they have to come and share what they believe in.’

Members of David Douglas High School’s Black Student Union and Latino Student Union descended on the school’s first Club America meeting on October 8, shutting it down

When news of the high school club’s troubled start then hit social media, conservative activists urged an in-person show of support for the chapter’s teen founder

Footage showed about 40 adults showed up to the after-school rally and started waving American flags on the property

Jasmine Sprague, who was at the school to pick up her child, also said she spoke to some of the protesters – who told her they had no personal connection to the school, but did not need one to know it was ‘oppressing white male students.’

But when the leftist teenagers started to counter-protest, witnesses said the situation escalated.

‘[The adult protesters said] racism isn’t real, it’s only because you believe it is,’ Ollie Truhlar, a student journalist at the school, recounted.

‘That’s one of the things that made it go downhill,’ he continued. ‘Most of the students there were people of color, but every single one of the protesters was white.’

They also told the students to ‘go away! go away!’ – to which the students started shouting ‘they suck! they suck!’ as they questioned the flag wavers’ purpose.

The club meeting was ultimately postponed due to the ‘high number of students and the resulting disruption before adult supervision arrived,’ Aide Juarez-Valerio, a spokesperson for the district, told the Oregonian.

She said club members and school leaders have since worked together to plan for Club America’s next meeting on Wednesday, with administrators and security officers planning to be in attendance.

Yet many who were at the school that day said the students and conservative protesters also engaged in meaningful conversation – and noted that the entire quarrel lasted less than half an hour.

Club America is the high school branch of late conservative commentator Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA

‘We can talk to these people if they come up and dialogue with them,’ Saint said. ‘We can agree to disagree.’

Coleman, the student activist, agreed.

‘Even with this going on around us, there’s a lot of division right now and I think the most important thing is that we all just love each other,’ he said.

The fracas over the school club came as sometimes violent protests over an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in the liberal city continue.

On Monday, President Donald Trump secured command of the Oregon National Guard in his efforts to deploy troops in Portland.

The Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2 – 1 that the president was likely to succeed on his claim that he had the authority to federalize the troops based on a determination he was unable to enforce the laws without them.

Judges on the panel noted in their unsigned order that the protesters ‘attempted to burn the building down, placed chains on the doors, attempted to breach the front door of the building and broke the front glass door.’

Protesters also threw ‘rocks, sticks and a mortar and launched M80 fireworks at federal officers, assaulted federal officers, shined lasers at officers’ eyes and doxed federal officers,’ the judges wrote.

Their decision now puts on hold a lower-court ruling that prohibited Trump from calling up the troops so he could send them to Portland.

However, US District Judge Karin Immergut’s second order prohibiting Trump from sending any National Guard members to Oregon at all remains in effect, meaning that no troops may immediately be deployed.