Black students at the University of Missouri are outraged after the president of the institution did not harshly reprimand or punish a white student who made a racist joke about killing African-Americans. The head of the school determined because the comment was made in private and was never intended to be shared publicly, it was within her First Amendment rights.
At the beginning of December, Megan Miller, the former president of the University of Missouri’s Turning Point USA conservative group, posted on Snapchat a remark that said, “If They Would Have Killed 4 More N*ggers We Would Have Had the Whole Week Off.”
According to the Kansas City Defender, her post was a response to various schools suspending classes in reaction to three African-American football players from the University of Virginia (Devin Chandler, Davis Jr., and D’Sean Perry) being killed on campus in November.
Some say her tasteless joke was a take on Doug Tracht, an 1980s disc jockey, who said during the celebration of the first federal marking of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, on air that if they were to kill “four more” it would get him and the other radio personalities the rest of the week off.
According to KansasCity.com, University of Missouri spokesperson Christian Basi said, the young woman did not post the message publicly and that the way it became viral is because someone made a screenshot of it and started to share it on social media, sparking the outrage.
The outrage from the post impacted her in a way also, causing her to step down from her position as campus chapter leader at Turning Point USA.
On Monday, Jan. 9, in a campus-wide email, University of Missouri President Mun Choi stated the young woman’s remarks do not warrant punishment or discipline from his administration.
First, he stated, Mizzou condemned the Snapchat post immediately, before detailing the process that the Office of Institutional Equity and the Office of…
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