Black students say they're being attacked with bananas at American University
Students at American University in Washington D.C. are speaking out against a disturbing incident they say happened on their campus.
The racially charged incidents include a rotting banana being left at the door of a black student's dorm.
Recently Black women at @AmericanU had bananas & other items thrown at them. Today, students responded. More to come pic.twitter.com/unKgrdevBv
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"I wouldn't let people drive me out," Neah Gray, the student who found the banana, told the Washington Post. "But it's kind of sad that this kind of thing still happens."
Students feel that the University's response to the incident has been inadequate.
"We understand that members of our community feel hurt by an incident that happened in a residence hall and separate allegations of racially biased behavior," the University said in a statement.
"In the real world, this would be a hate crime and an assault," Ma'at Sargeant, the president of the Black Student Alliance at the school told the Washington Post. "This kind of thing has been happening at AU for years. Last year, people wrote the n-word on black students' doors and put up Trump stickers on the doors of Hispanic students. This is not just a one-time thing."
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