RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Officials say about 40 students at a small all-men's college in Virginia shouted racial slurs, threw bottles and set off fireworks outside the Minority Student Union within hours after President Barack Obama's re-election.
Hampden-Sydney College President Chris Howard said in an email to parents Thursday that the disturbance early Wednesday also included threats of physical violence.
Howard is the college's first African-American president. He said in the email that he was disappointed in the "harmful, senseless episode" and that bigotry has no place on the campus of 1,080. About 9 percent are black.
The racially tinged disturbance is the second reported protest sparked by Obama's re-election. A protest at the University of Mississippi in Oxford late Tuesday involved about 400 people who shouted racial slurs. Two people were arrested.
The media and major news outlets ate this up yet we hardly hear a peep when TED NUGGENT THREATENS OUR PRESIDENT. I AM FED UP WITH THIS AND ACTION SHOULD BE TAKEN. http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-207_162-544132.html
Still yet, controversy regarding the Dixie Chicks for speaking what they felt was the truth and personally, their truth was more on point than many would like to admit to. http://www.tmz.com/2006/09/12/dixie-chicks-to-bush-youre-a-dumb-f-k/
I will continue to stress this until someone hears me. Why are the Secret Service not involved more heavily regarding Ted Nugents attacks on Pres. Obama? Does anyone remember what happens when the Dixie Chicks denounced fmr. Pres. George W. Bush? Well let me refresh your memory: http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/14/dixie.chicks.reut/
Those students if they were should be expelled. It they were black they would be expelled.