A young woman attending the University of Alabama posted a video on Instagram that promptly got her suspended from the university.
The video was captured and saved by sharp eyes on twitter:
Monique Judge over at The Root probably has the most comprehensive article on this incident. In the video, the young woman says this:
”I’ve wanted to be an Alpha Phi since I was fucking in high school and nobody fucking understands how much I love Alpha Phi. And now someone wants to say I’m offensive because I said “nigger”? You know what? Nigger, nigger, nigger. I don’t care if it’s Martin Luther King Day. Nigger, nigger, nigger. I’m in the South now, bitch. So everyone can fuck off. I’m from New Jersey, so I can say “nigger” as much as I want. Nigger, nigger, nigger. And if anyone else wants to fucking snake me on my fucking Finsta for saying nigger?”
The Alpha Phi sorority has suspended the student as well (no word on the cheering friends in the background), claiming they value diversity. If you read The Root’s article, you might see why that claim is questionable at best. Or you could go over to TYT and look at their 2014 report on racism in the Univ of Alabama greek system.
Meanwhile across the country, a high school student made yet another racist post on her Instagram page.
These things don’t come out of nowhere. Where would kids get the idea that if they’re “in the south now”, they can use racist slurs? Could it be from the president’s statements, or those of his Chief of Staff?
And yes, a few more people are finally figuring out that John Kelly is an integral part of this white-supremacist administration. Charles
In October, Kelly said that “Robert E. Lee was an honorable man” and that “the lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War,” displaying a staggering ignorance about the conflict and a racial insensitivity that marginalized the centrality of slavery to the war.
Furthermore, while at D.H.S., Kelly appointed the Rev. Jamie Johnson to lead the Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. It was later disclosed that in 2008 Johnson had said on a radio show that black people were anti-Semitic because they were envious of Jewish people. Johnson also said America’s black community “had turned America’s major cities into slums because of laziness, drug use and sexual promiscuity.”
I am no fan of John Kelly. As I have said before, I think he is one of the most dangerous men in America. On this issue of Trump’s racist immigration and deportation policy, he is not only complicit, he is a co-conspirator. — www.nytimes.com/...
Of course, Trump and Kelly and Bannon and Gorka and Stephen Miller and Jeff Sessions didn’t create all this. They’re just tapping into an undertone of hate that has existed for centuries. They’re dragging it out of the depths, coaxing it to the surface, to feed their own hate and political ambitions.
Nothing exemplifies their sheer disdain for black/brown and immigrant lives more than this video below of Border Patrol agents destroying water left by aid groups to help reduce the number of deaths among undocumented migrants crossing the desert. These actions could very well have led to people dying of thirst.
And we now know that 2017 marked a significant uptick in violence by white supremacist groups.
Finally, Fusion TV will air Angela Nagle, Leighton Woodhouse, Mark Lima and Nando Vila’s new documentary today. It’s based on Angela Nagle’s book:
— @subirgrewal