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Black students on the University of Connecticut say they’re now have critical considerations about their security on account of a racially charged video taped at their college that has since gone viral.
“I don’t feel comfortable here anymore,” pupil Areon Mangan advised New Haven native station WTNH. “That was actually right outside my window, and that’s just so upsetting, like, that hurts,” mentioned Mangan.
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The video reveals three white students strolling by the car parking zone of some on-campus residences whereas laughing and yelling the N-phrase to Black students inside their rooms.
“Right now, everybody is on edge because it happened twice now and nothing is being done,” defined Jakim Dease.
The pupil who recorded the incident is requesting to stay nameless however mentioned he was shocked by what he noticed. He confessed to the information station that he had by no means been referred to as the N-phrase till that night.
“If they’re found, I would like them to be expelled,” he continued. “I don’t think the university stands for behavior like that and shouldn’t stand for it.”
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In response to the disturbing footage UConn’s Dean of Students, Eleanor JB Daugherty, despatched an e-mail to the coed saying, “I’m sorry to hear this incident occurred.”
While the is at the moment being investigated by college police students say they want solutions now about how they are going to be saved out of hurt’s approach within the interim.
“They have to make it be known that it’s not okay and it’s not going to be tolerated,” mentioned Dease.
“The people that belong here want action,” agreed Mangan. “We want change. This is not fair to us.”
