Racist video outrages Washington State students

A racist video , much of which was filmed last year at a Trump rally at Washington State University , surfaced on social media this week, prompting outrage by students and another call for inclusivity by the university’s president.

“The attitudes, the behavior, and the language expressed in the video are not acceptable. Individuals with those beliefs are not welcome in our community,” President Kirk Schulz said in a statement to the university on Thursday. He added that the video “was intended to cause pain to our community of color at WSU. It directly impacted our students of color studying for final exams.”

The opening frame shows a white man clad in a Donald Trump hat and T-shirt, with another man’s voice asking, “You ready to make America great again?” They are standing in a crowd of students on WSU’s Glenn Terrell Mall during a rally last October in which the College Republicans erected a plywood wall to show support for Trump’s immigration proposals.

The video then shows a heated argument between the men and several black women. At one point the words “Maybe you should go back to Africa” appear over a still frame of the women.

The video ends with an unrelated clip of a young boy using a slur that refers to black people/ Chad Sokol, SR. More here.