People Are Using #BlackOnCampus to Share Their Stories of College Racism
The hashtag #BlackOnCampus is collecting stories about race and discrimination at a lot more schools than Missouri.
Two days after the president of the University of Missouristepped down amid pressure from protesting students, student-athletes and faculty over the way the school handled issues of racial harassment, and hours after a 19-year-old white man was arrested for threatening black students there, a new hashtag is broadening the issue of beyond just the Mizzou campus.
People are using #BlackOnCampus to share their myriad stories of racism—some subtle and some infuriatingly blatant—during their own college years.
Here are a few examples:
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There are many, many more of these showing up on Twitter right now.
