One of Georgia’s largest universities is investigating a series of racist social media posts that prompted fears of racial violence.
It apparently started last week with a message shared in the GroupMe app showing a black student in class at Kennesaw State University with the caption “need to call the klan to solve this issue.” Others then shared it on Twitter, demanding that the university take action to protect them.
A friend alerted Kennesaw State senior Elijah John to the Ku Klux Klan reference on a photo of him, which had been posted by a fellow student in his information systems class, he said.
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