I should point out that this happened at a university in America in 2016....

[MrScorpio]

BLACK LIVES MATTER

UPDATE: Student in gorilla mask with bananas, nooses charged after Black Lives Matter face-off at ETSU

TONY CASEY • UPDATED YESTERDAY AT 5:03 PM
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A barefoot man wearing overalls and a gorilla mask, trying to hand out noose-wrapped bananas to Black Lives Matter demonstrators, was taken away by East Tennessee State University public safety officers Wednesday afternoon.

According to a news release from the public safety office, freshman Tristan Rettke was charged with civil rights intimidation. Saying Rettke's actions "go against the values of our university where people come first and all are treated with dignity and respect," the university said the student has been placed on interim suspension. Criminal charges were pending before the local district attorney, and an internal student-conduct investigation was underway.

ETSU President Brian Noland held a press conference in the afternoon to speak out against what he saw Wednesday. And Noland did watch, almost in real time as it happened, via a video on a student's Facebook page.

"I was offended, but I was also saddened," Noland said about his personal response to Rettke's behavior. "The nation is not only raw, but it's healing."

Noland praised the Black Lives Matter demonstrators for their peaceful rally and handling of the disruption. He'd been in contact with many of those students through their academic careers at ETSU and was proud they reacted as such.

http://www.johnsoncitypress.com/Education/2016/09/28/Gorilla-mask-and-bananas-Racially-charged-Black-Lives-Matter-faceoff-at-ETSU

[NightWatcher]

1. Expulsion should be automatic for this dumbass.

[redwitch]

2. Yup.

Pathetic loser.

[MrModerate]

3. Not automatic. With due process. Let's keep it fair. n/t

[global1]

4. No Doubt This Guy Was KOTC...

a member of the "Klan Officers Training Corp" on campus.

[sarae]

27. Agreed.

[The Genealogist]

5. Trump has encouraged and empowered bigots like this

I hope the outcome here is that these ignorant bigots are expelled from this school.

[uponit7771]

15. +1, tRump with the media's help of NORMALIZING tRumps racism by NOT calling it what it is

[mountain grammy]

19. Agree!

No doubt, most of them think this is hilarious.

[smirkymonkey]

40. He is emboldening this kind of behavior everywhere.

It's sickening. If he ever gets elected it can only get worse.

[The Genealogist]

42. As a gay man, trust me that I fear he somehow wins in November

I shudder to think just how emboldened his rabid bigots will be should he win.

[smirkymonkey]

43. God help us. He can't win. He just can't.

It will be hell on earth.

[awoke_in_2003]

44. My sister's gay

my wife is Mexican American, and I'm atheist. We will all be targets.

[The Genealogist]

45. I'm also an atheist

I'd never pass the religious purity test

[awoke_in_2003]

46. Did you see this?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512455328

[The Genealogist]

47. Indeed I did

Problem with religious purity tests is that once all the religious "undesirables" are dealt with, those remaining will start turning on each other.

[malaise]

6. Can you fugging believe this shit?

[Greybnk48]

30. I think they were willing participants

but that someone else, or some group, is behind this. Alt-Right KKK Fuckers!

[OldRedneck]

7. Upper East Tennessee

This happened at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, TN. I lived in nearby Bristol, TN-VA for eight years and am not even a little bit surprised.

[Duppers]

33. This student is from Hendersonville, Tn, near Nashville.

You can bet he grew up a privileged Repug.

[Paladin]

8. This ignorant little racist ought to be used as an example.

I hope that his days at that university---or any other university---are over and done with.

[Snarkoleptic]

9. This is the post-racial America conservatives keep touting.

We're going to need a bigger basket.
#Dumpster-of-Deplorables

[Missn-Hitch]

21. Indeed. HRC woefully underestimated the number.

[japple]

10. It appears that a college education is being wasted on one of these

students. Maybe he will get a better education in the county stockade.

[Dustlawyer]

11. BACK-FIRED!!!

I would say he ruined his college career, but if he is stupid and hateful enough to pull this stunt he wouldn't have graduated anyway.

[NBachers]

12. "Hello- Mom, Dad . . . "

[bucolic_frolic]

13. It's been a long time coming

Colleges and universities, at least some of them, have long been
refuges for aberrant behaviors of many types. Heaven forbid
there should be national and state standards, or education, for incoming
freshmen on civil rights, boundaries, personal finance, criminal law, norms
of conduct. Sanity for living.

[uponit7771]

14. OK, why are most racist NOT proud of who they are... why are they ashamed of being racist!?!?

... Don't understand that, why not be a proud racist if they're going to be one at all !?!?!?

[StrictlyRockers]

16. Wow. Just wow.

That is so over the top offensive, it's just crazy.

When his face is exposed, he is so embarrassed. I'm embarrassed for him. Why would he think this is funny or ok in any way??

He's lucky he didn't get punched.

[3catwoman3]

17. What a moron.

I hope due process kicks his racist ass out of the school.

[aintitfunny]

18. My college, my home town

I haven't lived there for nearly 40 years, but it will always be the place of my birth and raising. Once proud to be from East Tennessee, not so much today. Tennessee has changed and not in a good way. The President of ETSU should b commended, along with the security personnel. The young protesters continued their peaceful protest and demonstrated dignity in the face of stark ugliness.

[greymattermom]

22. My aunt and uncle lived there and three of my cousins grew up there.

They have finally all left, but I've been there for several funerals recently. It seems to be either very segregated or very white, I couldn't tell which.

[aintitfunny]

37. It is very white

Though probably not as much as it was 38 years ago .

[Missn-Hitch]

20. Lincoln was WAY too nice.

Forget the wall with Mexico but I do have another suggestion for a wall.

[white_wolf]

38. I've often said Lincoln was too merciful.

The plantation owners money should have been confiscated and given to the former slaves as payment for their years of forced labor or possibly had their lands taken away as well. The traitorous Confederacy got off far too easy and now we have assholes glorifying their treasonous and racist movement.

I think Lincoln's attempts at reconciliation were noble, but I don't think they healed the rift in the Union or did much to help race relations.

[Missn-Hitch]

39. Traitors needed to be treated as such.

You are damn right the land, profits and their freedom should have been confiscated.

Cheers!

[malthaussen]

23. Tell me again why everyone should go to college.

Education doesn't help much if you're a jerk to begin with.

-- Mal

[geek tragedy]

24. some milennials are deplorables, unfortunately nt

[BSdetect]

25. Cringeworthy horror

Has anything changed since the early 1960s when as an eleven year old I watched TV showing police and other thugs bashing blacks in the south?

This behaviour reveals deep seated prejudice rises up easily.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

26. Criminal charges?

A barefoot man wearing overalls and a gorilla mask, trying to hand out noose-wrapped bananas to Black Lives Matter demonstrators, was taken away by East Tennessee State University public safety officers Wednesday afternoon.

According to a news release from the public safety office, freshman Tristan Rettke was charged with civil rights intimidation. Saying Rettke's actions "go against the values of our university where people come first and all are treated with dignity and respect," the university said the student has been placed on interim suspension. Criminal charges were pending before the local district attorney, and an internal student-conduct investigation was underway.

Is there any reason this activity is not Constitutionally protected?

Donning flame-proof suit.

[ProfessorGAC]

29. Inciting?

Just a guess, but this could be interpreted as inciting a riot. Now, proving that might be tough, but just making that idiot sweat would be worth it.

[mythology]

32. The Civil Rights Act of 1968 makes it a crime

To intimidate people based on race. The historical usage of the noose against black people for being black to me makes that cross the line. Not that the mask, overalls and bananas aren't absurdly offensively stupid and hurtful, but without the noose it just stays with the university giving him the boot in my opinion.

[spanone]

28. racists.

[struggle4progress]

31. I hope he gets the drugs he needs

[edbermac]

34. Mugshot.

This will look real good on your resume, College Boy.



http://movie-sounds.org/quotes/robocop/You-a-college-boy-or-something.mp3

[smirkymonkey]

41. "Backpfeifengesicht"

Loosely translated: A face badly in need of a fist.

[Eleanors38]

48. I prefer looking at a real gorilla.

[irisblue]

35. 10000 bail & court date of Nov 9. what a racist fool

Did he forget his hood @ home?

[Buckeye_Democrat]

36. Tennessee.

There's a place called Sad Sam's in Cross Plains, TN that sells these figurines:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10103365358646315&set=a.10100135611560365.2539593.22420870&type=3&theater