An Indiana University student is facing backlash for her racist remarks on social media, sparking protests on campus.
“I’m sorry, but if you’re Black, you’re not country. I don’t care,” the student said in the video reshared on TikTok. “I wish I meant that in the nicest way, but babe, I know you were raised in the country or your grandparents were … but they was picking, OK?”
She added, “They wasn’t planting. Just keep that in mind. They wasn’t making money. They were getting sold for money. You ain’t country.”
Her comments were seemingly in response to Beyonce’s record-breaking country album, “Cowboy Carter.” The 27-track highly anticipated project was released on March 29 and included features from Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Linda Martell, Miley Cyrus, and Post Malone. Additionally, the mega-star highlighted Black artists — Tanner Adell, Brittney Spencer, Tiera Kennedy, Shaboozy, Willie Jones, and Reyna Roberts.
The woman was exposed as a nursing student at the Terre Haute-based university, where the student population is mostly white. People also called out how dangerous it would be if she entered the medical field with white supremacist views, pointing out how racism is a public health crisis.
Demonstrations erupted on campus this week, calling on the school to take action, shouting: “Hate has no place here” and “Silence is violence.”
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