You never want to project the ignorance of a few on an entire campus, but this is a horrific look for Texas A&M.
When people try to tell me racism doesn’t exist or ask why am I always bringing up race, it is these type of things that let me know that it is important we keep pointing them out or they will never change.
Here is the story.
Texas A&M University is conducting an investigation after a group of students visiting campus from an inner-city Dallas high school were harassed Tuesday with racial slurs and a demand to “go back where you came from.”
About 60 juniors from Uplift Hampton Preparatory were touring the campus, according to state Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas, when two black students were approached by a white woman wearing Confederate flag earrings. West said the white woman showed the students her earrings and asked them what they thought about them. Then a group of “white male and female students” began taunting the students “using the most well-known racial slur that’s directed toward African Americans,” said West, whose district includes the Uplift Hampton Preparatory campus.
A&M staffers who were accompanying the students on the tour called campus police. No one was charged; the responding officer told people at the scene that the harassers were expressing their First Amendment rights, according to West. University officials are now reviewing the incident, West said.
Uplift Hampton school officials said Thursday that they were disappointed by the incident. The charter school is devoted to helping economically disadvantaged students get into college. Many come from families with no experience in higher education, and campus tours are their first encounters with universities.
First amendment rights?
I wonder how the cops would have responded to this if a bunch of black students would have harassed a bunch of white high school kids?
I think you know the answer to that.