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muriel_volestrangler

(106,600 posts)
Thu Sep 11, 2025, 12:50 PM Sep 2025

Three historically black colleges and universities targeted with threats

Three historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have been targeted with threats to their campuses.

Virginia State University and Alabama State University have closed their campuses, while Hampton State University has cancelled all classes until 12 September, and advised students living off-campus to enter school grounds.

None of the universities provided further details of the threats in their statements.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/sep/11/charlie-kirk-shot-latest-news-updates-utah-university-donald-trump?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-68c2f7108f0880bae9c519c8#block-68c2f7108f0880bae9c519c8

Because the mouth-breathers on the far right think that the appropriate response to a shooting at a university (I'd guess majority White) is to threaten Black-associated universities.
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Three historically black colleges and universities targeted with threats (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Sep 2025 OP
How am I not surprised? irisblue Sep 2025 #1
I'm not JustAnotherGen Sep 2025 #3
Same old, same old JustAnotherGen Sep 2025 #2
There is so much hatred in the air. You can taste and smell it. Walleye Sep 2025 #4

JustAnotherGen

(38,109 posts)
2. Same old, same old
Thu Sep 11, 2025, 01:01 PM
Sep 2025

My Uncle Doug was a South Carolina State at Orangeburg when students were lynched and followed by SC raising the Confederate Flag at their capitol.

Based upon the image I've seen of a person of interest - this was white on white crime. Leave us out of it.

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