Racist Obama haters protest election results

[markroxny]

Hampden-Sydney College, an all-male school in central Virginia, is investigating an election-night incident in which a group of students upset about President Obama’s reelection set off fireworks, threw bottles and then shouted racial epithets at members of a minority student organization, officials said Thursday. Some in the group also threatened violence against the Minority Student Union members, college officials said, but there was no physical contact. Officials said about 40 students were involved, but it was unclear how many were active and how many were bystanders.

“I am terribly disappointed with the students who participated in this harmful, senseless episode including those men who stood idly by and watched it happen,” college President Christopher B. Howard wrote in a statement addressed to the Hampden-Sydney community. “There is no place for bigotry or racism of any kind on this campus.”


The incident at Hampden-Sydney, a private liberal arts college in Prince Edward County, occurred as another racially charged episode was unfolding at the University of Mississippi. There, the Daily Mississippian student newspaper reported, hundreds of students “exchanged racial epithets and violent, politicized chants” about midnight as the nation learned that its first black president had been reelected.


At Hampden-Sydney, about 300 people attended a forum Wednesday to address the incident. “We were all impressed with the number of students who stood up and condemned this,” said college spokesman Thomas Shomo.


Howard, who took office in July 2009, is the first African American president of Hampden-Sydney. Federal data show that 8 percent of its students are black and 83 percent are white.


The 1,080-student school, founded in 1775, is one of a handful of all-male colleges left in the United States. Among its former students were the ninth U.S. president, William Henry Harrison, and television comedian Stephen Colbert, who attended the school before later graduating from Northwestern University.


Shomo said the 40 students involved in the incident coalesced on the school grounds after television networks announced that Obama had defeated Republican Mitt Romney. The group of students walked over to a lawn outside the Minority Student Union house, he said, where some threw bottles and set off fireworks. Shomo said, however, that the bottles apparently were not directed at any person or building. When some students started shouting racial slurs and threats, Shomo said, members of the minority student group called campus security.


No physical blows were exchanged, he said. The incident lasted less than 45 minutes. Howard himself went to the scene soon afterward to talk with students about what had happened.


The college, which posted a statement on the matter on its Facebook page, is investigating the incident. Shomo said students could face punishment for violation of the school’s code of conduct. According to the college’s Web site: “The Hampden-Sydney student will behave as a gentleman at all times and in all places.”

Staff writer Jenna Johnson contributed to this report.

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[JD Barleycorn]

I failed to see in either event where any of the "rioters" were captured and questioned by authorities. So we can assume the motivations and identities of the protestors but we don't know. Too many false flag operations by this "democratic" party to assume anything. Get me some proof but you're not interested in proof. You just want something to scream about. I guess you've never heard your leader talk about civility. FAIL Off the Mark.

[ChoomCzar]

Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn

I failed to see in either event where any of the "rioters" were captured and questioned by authorities. So we can assume the motivations and identities of the protestors but we don't know. Too many false flag operations by this "democratic" party to assume anything. Get me some proof but you're not interested in proof. You just want something to scream about. I guess you've never heard your leader talk about civility. FAIL Off the Mark.

Hey JD, did you know that the OP here is such a liberal and wants to identify so badly with Odumbo that he's pretending to be black when he's really a little white dweeb!

[markroxny]

Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn

I failed to see in either event where any of the "rioters" were captured and questioned by authorities. So we can assume the motivations and identities of the protestors but we don't know. Too many false flag operations by this "democratic" party to assume anything. Get me some proof but you're not interested in proof. You just want something to scream about. I guess you've never heard your leader talk about civility. FAIL Off the Mark.

Proof? You are joking right?

Did you even read the article teacher man? Or what the president of the college said?

You have no interest in facing reality. That's why you thought Romney was going to win.

Stay in dream land old teacher man, just don't bother those of us who are awake.

[markroxny]

Oh what a surprise, Not just in VA but Mississippi too!

TUPELO, Mississippi (Reuters) - Hundreds of University of Mississippi students took part in a candlelight vigil for unity on Wednesday night in response to a post-election protest that included racial slurs after Democratic President Barack Obama was elected to a second term.
The protest of the presidential election results began late Tuesday with about three dozen students chanting political slogans and shouting racial epithets, but the crowd quickly grew to include some 400 students after word spread on Twitter and Facebook, university officials said.
Campus police were called to disperse participants and spectators. The university said a second gathering of about 100 students popped up shortly afterward, prompting more calls to police and resulting in two arrests on disorderly conduct charges.
Mississippi's flagship university celebrated its 50th anniversary of racial integration this fall, and the racially tinged protest after the re-election of the first U.S. black president triggered concern about continued intolerance.
"While we are grateful that there were no injuries and there was no property damage, we are very disappointed in those students who took a very immature and uncivil approach to expressing their views about the election," University of Mississippi Chancellor Dan Jones said in a statement.
"The gathering seems to have been fueled by social media, and the conversation should have stayed there," he said.
Located in Oxford, the university known as Ole Miss is the state's largest institution of higher learning with more than 21,500 students.
The school admitted its first black student, James Meredith, in the fall of 1962, and the integration was met with violence. Two men died and dozens of people were wounded in the riots that erupted as federal officials escorted Meredith to campus.
On Thursday, campus police Chief Calvin Sellers dismissed reports describing the incident after Tuesday's election as a riot. He said a few individuals caused a small disturbance that drew a crowd of several hundred spectators.
A similar event occurred after the presidential election four years ago, Sellers said. During that incident, students argued with each other about the election results, but the exchange did not attract as large a crowd.
Ole Miss students concerned about the university's image following the latest disturbance joined in the "We Are One Mississippi" candlelight walk on campus on Wednesday to condemn the protest.
About 700 people, including Jones, participated in the event, which demonstrated student solidarity and the true spirit of Ole Miss, said university spokesman Danny Blanton.
(Editing by Colleen Jenkins)

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