Boston arts museum bans 2 visitors for offensive language

Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts has banned two visitors and vowed to change protocols for guards after minority middle school students said they were subjected to racism by staff and patrons during a field trip last week.

Principal Arturo Forrest told The Boston Globe one museum staff member told students “no food, no drink, and no watermelon.” He heard reports of museum security following his students while leaving white students alone.

Museum officials said Friday the staff member recalled saying “no food, no drink and no water bottles.” They also said guards were coming on and off breaks and that’s why students may have felt followed.

Museum officials apologized to students at the Helen Y. Davis Leadership Academy.

Officials said they banned the two visitors for “offensive and inappropriate language.”

The Associated Press

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