Bay Area must listen to families of color if it wants to reopen schools safely, equitably FacebookTwitterEmail 2 1of2Kim Desai with her homemade sign at the Sunday rally put on by OUSD Parents for Safe Reopening near Lake Merritt, OaklandSam Whiting / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of2Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, a graduate of Skyline High School, flanked by kids from the Oakland Unified School District at Sunday's rally for reopening the schoolsSam Whiting / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less Kev Choice said he wondered “where all of the Black and brown people were.” Choice, a hip-hop artist, activist and music teacher at the Oakland School for the Arts, was referring to the “Schools Not Screens” rally held near Lake Merritt on Feb. 28. The grassroots group OUSD Parents for Safe Reopening organized the event to urge the Oakland Unified School District to quickly reopen schools for in-class instruction. Even Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf attended, and she told the crowd of about 200 that it was “time we get our kids back to school — or, as we say in Oakland, ‘hella time.’”