Darren Boyle, Daily Mail, March 27, 2017

White female students have been told to scrap their ‘hoop earrings’ because the style results from the ‘oppression and exclusion’ of black people.

A group of Latino students at Pitzer College in Los Angeles wrote on a ‘free wall’ used for unmoderated free speech, ‘White Girl, take off your hoops’.

One white student raised a question with authorities about the message, when fellow student Alegria Martinez responded by emailing the entire student body.

The issue was first reported on the college Claremont Independent newspaper.

Martinez is a member of the Latinx Student Union.

She wrote: