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Twitter Racist Student Popped After Calling Student Protest A “Slave Auction” And Much Worse Students who are protesting the defacing of an African American History Banner at Clemson University were met with threats instead of support from one white student and now that student has been arrested. 21-year-old Jamie Reece Moore was arrested and charged with unlawful use of a cellphone after posting threatening messages on the app “Yik Yak” according to The Root . Here is what happened to spark student protests, as reported by the Associate Press . In four years at Clemson University, the rotting bananas hanging from an African-American history banner on campus weren’t the most racially offensive thing biology major Brendan Standifer has seen. They were just the latest. Standifer said a quiet racial schism runs through the campus. “The only time you see true unity is on game day,” he said of the university’s football team which made it to the national championship game in January, but lost. Standifer, who is black, joined a few dozen other students Monday on the steps of Sikes Hall, Clemson’s administrative building, for the sixth day of a protest demanding more diversity at South Carolina’s second largest university. The protest was still underway Wednesday.  Just 6 percent of Clemson students are black in a state where nearly a third of the people are African-American. None of South Carolina’s 13 public four-year colleges and universities has a smaller percentage of black students, and Clemson’s African-American enrollment is behind most major Southern universities. The University of Mississippi is 13 percent black. University of South Carolina students are 10 percent African-American, while Auburn University, founded in circumstances to Clemson by agricultural interests unhappy with their state’s flagship university, has 7 percent black enrollment. The Root reports that Jamie Reece Moore, 21, who was fed up with the protests decided to post the following racist massages for other student to see on Yik Yak according to a police report. * “What time is the lynch mob tomorrow? I got a couple hundred feet of rope.” * “Let’s do to the Clemson protesters what Ohio did to the Kent State student protesters 40 years ago.” * “Drive by at Sikes?” * Slave auction tomorrow morning at 8am @ Sikes Hall. Lots of good protest workers. Get them while they’re mad!!!” * “So have they started lynching protesters yet?” SMH, why is this white student so BOTHERED by what a small amount of black students are doing?? Oh yea, racism.

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Racist Clemson Student Popped After Threatening To Lynch Black Student Protestors