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(117,550 posts) Wed Jan 24, 2018, 10:10 AM Jan 2018

Student who used racial slur in video no longer enrolled at Wake Forest

Wake Forest University officials said Sunday that a woman who posted a video on social media admitting to using a racial slur is no longer enrolled at the university.

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In a statement released Sunday night, Nathan Hatch, Wake Forest president, said university leaders “took the matter very seriously,” and that staffers in the university’s campus life division offered support to students in addition to conducting an investigation.

“I encourage each of us to redouble our efforts in the days ahead to support those who are hurting acutely and take every opportunity to make our community better,” Hatch said in his statement.

In the online video, the female student says, “I’m hammered again tonight. It’s 2 o’clock. I just called my black RA a f---ing n-----. Let me know why did I do that. Tonight, I was at Pike, didn’t make it to another frat.”

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Freshman Admits To Using Racial Slur In Online Video mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2018 #1

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1. Freshman Admits To Using Racial Slur In Online Video

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Wed Jan 24, 2018, 10:22 AM

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Freshman Admits To Using Racial Slur In Online Video

By LILLIAN JOHNSON
NEWS EDITOR
Sunday, January 21, 2018

Late in the evening of Friday, Jan. 19, campus bias-reporting systems were notified of a video on social media that had begun to quickly circulate around the Wake Forest community. In the video, freshman Kara Nelson admitted to being drunk and to calling her resident adviser a racial slur.

The original video had been posted to the girl’s fake Instagram, more commonly known as a “finsta.” A fake Instagram account is a private account where one can post things that are not as serious as what one would post on their real Instagram account. Another main component of a “finsta” is that the person only allows a select group to follow them, such as their closest friends.

The video was then recorded and posted to Twitter by another Wake Forest student with the comment, “The trend of saying the n-word on finstas is so strong at PWI’s [primarily white institutions]. But racism is dead?” The user tagged the official Wake Forest Twitter account in her tweet.

The tweet quickly gained attention. As of 11:30 a.m. on Jan. 21, the original tweet had 285 retweets and 260 likes. Many people have responded to the tweet, saying how unacceptable it is and tagging the Wake Forest Twitter in a call for action. ... On Saturday morning, a campus-wide email was sent out by Penny Rue, the Vice President of Campus Life.

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