Once he clicked on it, he found a three-second video of a white classmate looking into the camera and uttering an anti-Black racial slur. “Go pick cotton,” some said they were told in class by white students. A photograph of Groves, captioned with a racial slur, also began circulating online, but she and her parents say someone else wrote it to further tarnish her reputation. The day after the video went viral, Groves tried to defend herself in tense calls with the university. Since the racial reckoning of the summer, many white teenagers, when posting dance videos to social media, no longer sing along with the slur in rap songs.

Source: Indian Express December 27, 2020 08:26 UTC