TV and digital news sites have covered the unrest surrounding the University of Missouri all week after months of racist displays against black students on campus.
Social media is also getting involved as a new trending hashtag, #BlackonCampus, launched with African-American students sharing stories of being discriminated against at the college.
Being told that kids in urban school simply don’t try enough by another white student in my education course #BlackOnCampus
— g (@hypeisnow_) November 11, 2015
being told I couldn’t have possibly written the paper I clearly wrote in a freshman comp class. #blackoncampus #Writesforalivingnow — General Tso (@Bartees_) November 11, 2015
White people are trolling #BlackOnCampus trying to deny racism, when in actuality they’re affirming it. Thanks for proving us right ????
— #FightFor15 (@SankofaBrown) November 11, 2015
Being called divisive for confronting racist microaggressions head on instead of sitting down and shutting up #BlackOnCampus — b (@bdoulaoblongata) November 11, 2015
#BlackOnCampus constantly having to interject during class discussions to correct inaccurate historical information i.e. Slavery, Jim Crow
— Black Girl Magic (@HollaBlackGirl) November 11, 2015
#BlackOnCampus Telling the administration about racism, and them telling YOU to solve it. Like you work there. Like you aint a student. — Knat Turner (@progressagent) November 11, 2015
The social media movement launched following the resignation of journalism professor Melissa Click on Tuesday.
Click was caught on video calling for “muscle” to remove a journalist shooting video of the tumultuous scene on campus during a public demonstration.
“Who wants to help me get this reporter out of here? I need some muscle over here,” she shouted at a photographer.
As professors continued canceling classes on campus Wednesday over concerns about violence, security was bolstered.
On Monday, school president Tim Wolfe resigned in response to student athletes resisting participating in games until he did so.
The protests at the university are in response to months of racism geared at black students, including taunts and racist displays on campus.