Two young girls who visited Howard University while wearing gear supporting President Donald Trump were accosted by the student body and accused of being “white supremacists and neo-nazi sympathizers” by the school NAACP.
In a tweet on Aug. 19, an individual at the university claimed “white people getting real bold” by wearing Trump paraphernalia on campus:
Right here in Annex white people gettin real bold we don't stand w trump pic.twitter.com/zoit7UpC2h
— Brit (@britnianise) August 19, 2017
Another person claimed the pair of girls “knew EXACTLY what they were doing strolling onto the campus of #HowardU” and were trying to get a reaction out of people:
They knew EXACTLY what they were doing strolling onto the campus of #HowardU with #MAGA hats on. To get a reaction #HBCU #HBCUsMatter pic.twitter.com/VfxEZowSwS
— Pleasure P. (@chillin662) August 20, 2017
In response to the girls’ presence on campus, some called for physical assault:
The fact that she wore it to an hbcu...warranted an ass whooping.
— Mikasa Black (@Kiymariah) August 20, 2017
Someone shoulda "beat the crap" out of them. To quote 45 the Nazi enabler. #TrumpResign #Nazi45
— Jesse Moreno (@JesseBoy1999) August 21, 2017
tell them to meet you behind south and beat the fuck out of them. https://t.co/NOJm1RaYLj
— zayZHEzae? (@zhesheche) August 19, 2017
One person stated the girls should have been removed from the university, claiming “folks removed for campus for less”:
Howard is a private institution and I've seen folks removed for campus for less. What did campus police do? This is unacceptable. https://t.co/eeiHuQbmyw
— Jamilah Lemieux (@JamilahLemieux) August 20, 2017
Another aired a laundry list of grievances stemming from the girls’ presence on campus, with calls for a tighter “vetting” process for visitors, the school dining hall “forcibly remov[ing]” them for campus, and banning their tour advisor from campus for allowing them step foot on a Historical Black College campus:
The campus dining hall did, in fact, chime in. In response to one of the tweets about the girls being allowed to come on campus, the HU Dining account said they would “will take any action necessary to ensure that HU students feel safe& comfortable in our dining spaces,” adding they were no longer on campus:
who told these lil yt girls they could come to THE HU like it was about to be some joke pic.twitter.com/ACgkNJWB69
— מַהוּת (@EssenceDalton) August 19, 2017
We will take any action necessary to ensure that HU students feel safe& comfortable in our dining spaces. This group is no longer on campus.
— HUDining (@HUdining) August 19, 2017
One of the girls allegedly featured in the photos took to Twitter to respond to the uproar. She claimed she and her friend were visiting the Howard campus for lunch but were told “f**k y’all,” were accused of being “disrespectful,” and that they “should have known better”:
#noshame #MAGA pic.twitter.com/h14x9pAo9x
— al (@allie_vandee) August 19, 2017
She was promptly called a “bitch.”
First of all bitch DC tourists don't eat Howard University caf food "for lunch" LMAO just say you wanted to agitate black people and go. https://t.co/dyA8H9cto4
— adeola (@sade_adeola) August 19, 2017
The account for the Howard NAACP used the tweet to call the girls “white supremacists and neo-nazi sympathizers,” saying, “good riddance”:
Howard University students have no time for white supremacists and neo-nazi sympathizers on our campus. Good riddance. https://t.co/zEEQ06qDtU
— Howard Univ. NAACP (@HU_NAACP) August 19, 2017
Howard University also issued its own statement via Twitter, praising its students for their response to the girls, and calling them the “all that is right about America”:
Apparently, an example of being "academically advanced" is threatening people with violence for merely expressing different political views.
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