Nottingham Trent University in England has launched an “urgent” investigation after a black student posted footage of her being racially abused outside her room. Rufaro Chisango said the incident happened in her halls of residence on Monday night. At least two male voices can be heard chanting “we hate blacks” outside her door. Police have now arrested two 18-year-old males in connection with the incident.
The brave RUFARO CHISANGO with support from Nottingham Trent University took to social media to share story and has been contacted by he BBC and an array of media outlets!
- @RufaroChisango_
yoo I’m fuming, the way people in the same uni halls as me are chanting “we hate the blacks” outside my bedroom door. Words cannot describe how sad this makes me feel, in this 2018 people think this is still acceptable😤 pic.twitter.com/XUiYqNIWQT
— Ruu (@rufarochisango_) March 7, 2018
– Statement from Nottingham Trent ACS
-Official Statement from the ACS
We hope the best for Rufaro in the future and we will be working closely to run events with the university and the students’ union to shed light to incidents like this, allowing more people of colour to voice their opinion and have their say✊🏾 pic.twitter.com/zS3gmQYh6b
— Nottingham Trent ACS (@NTU_ACS) March 8, 2018
We here at Bout Dat Online support Miss Rufaro for shedding light on such an incident.