University of Alabama expels student over racist social media videos
A University of Alabama student was expelled from the school after she launched several racist rants on social media.
Harley Barber, 19, was also kicked out of her Alpha Phi sorority for posting videos to Instagram, including one on Monday attacking African-Americans with racial slurs. Her posts prompted school officials to investigate the "racist and disturbing videos."
"I find the videos highly offensive and deeply hurtful, not only to our students and our entire University community, but to everyone who viewed them," said university president Stuart Bell in a statement Wednesday. "The actions of this student do not represent the larger student body or the values of our University, and she is no longer enrolled here."
In one video proclaiming her affiliation with the sorority, Barber says she doesn't "waste water…because of the poor people in Syria."
She then claims she loves to "act like I love black people because I f-king hate n----rs."
"But I just saved the f-king n----r by shutting that water off," she continues.
After facing backlash from the initial video, Barber posted another. Rather than apologize, she launched into an expletive-laden racist tirade in which she claims, "I'm from New Jersey so I can say n----r as much as I want."
"N----r, n----r, n----r. I don't care if it's Martin Luther King Day. N----r, n----r, n----r. I'm in the south now, b---h, so everybody can f--k off," Barber said.
Linda Kahangi, the executive director of Alpha Phi International Fraternity, addressed Barber's comments in a statement to AL.com on Tuesday.
She assured the public that the language and opinions expressed do not represent those of the sorority. Additionally, Kahangi revealed Barber had been removed from the organization.
"Alpha Phi is a diverse, values-based organization and condemns the language and opinions in these videos. They are offensive and hateful to both our own members and to other members of the Greek and campus community," the statement read.
She actually says at one point , something to the effect of "I can say ni--er as much as I want because I am from New Jersey.
What a testimonial for her home state, lol.
I can't find it now but, there was a scene in MASH were Hawkeye told a nurse that she was beautiful but she had some messed up ideas, he was speaking about a racist remark she had made, after they had gone on a date. This girl reminds me of that moment.
I know which episode you are talking about. Just saw it yesterday. Also there is another episode where a patient was racist. They took iodone (or something) darkened his skin to mess with him. Even had one of the black nurses come by and said "Boy you're good. They have you down on this chart as being white".
I love that old show, the movie, not so much, after all, they had a black doctor on the movie that they called "Spear Chucker", didn't see it then but, now, that nickname was racist.
There was another episode where an officer would intentionally send his black soldiers into high kill areas. He claimed the injured would get rotated home earlier but Hawkeye saw right through him. So they had a drinking party in the swamp and goaded him into admitting his real reason which was to get the black soldiers out of his command. Potter told him to face charges or resign his commission.
So did I. I even thought the Uijeongbu was a made until I was assigned there in 2015.
I forgot about that. He used a black dentist to do hammer the point home.
obviously this started a long time ago with this young lady, but
can't help but wonder if she would have been so emboldened as to broadcast her ignorance so blatantly
before the era of the racist in chief
It is more the ease of social media than Trump in this case, I am afraid.
Instagram and Facebook and Twitter have made some people a lot dumber than they should be.
agreed
Good point John.