An irate black student at the University of Virginia blasted her white classmates for taking advantage of the school’s new, expanded multicultural center, shocking video shows.
The footage, which has gone viral on social media, shows an unidentified student of color at the 16,000-student public research university in Charlottesville giving what she dubbed a “public service announcement” to other students sitting nearby.
“Excuse me, if y’all didn’t know, this a [Multicultural Student Center] and frankly there’s just too many white people in here and this a space for people of color,” the young woman said. “So just be really cognizant of the space that you’re taking up because it does make some of us POCs uncomfortable when we see too many white people in here.”
The expanded space – billed by the university as a place to “embrace and support the diversity” of UVA – had only been open for four days, according to the miffed student.
“And frankly, there’s the whole university for a lot of y’all to be at and there’s very few spaces for us,” she said. “So keep that in mind, thank you.”
A number of students can be heard clapping and hollering as the footage ends. The video was tweeted Wednesday by the Young America’s Foundation, which blasted the student’s behavior as “racist intolerance” rather than inclusiveness befitting of a university setting.
“Leftists at the University of Virginia are dictating who is and who isn’t allowed in the new Multicultural Student Center,” the conservative youth organization tweeted.
As of Friday, the post had been retweeted nearly 10,000 times. It also prompted university officials to release a statement later Wednesday clarifying exactly who is welcome at the revamped space.
“As UVA President Jim Ryan said at the opening of these centers, ‘I believe deeply that we need to build a community that is not just diverse, but also inclusive,’” the statement read in part. “In order to foster the diversity of experience and ideas that make UVA a great and good place to study and work, these centers are open to all members of the university community.”
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