Ole Miss Students Recount Alleged Racist Taunts Caught on Ring Camera
Is this obvious racism that demands real discipline or have three girls been thrown to the online wolves without all the facts?
Above: Stock photo of the University of Mississippi campus. Image credit: Wesley Hitt/Getty Images
The Facts
- Ring doorbell footage time-stamped around Friday at 8:30 p.m. reportedly showed three White women walking past the off-campus apartment of three Black University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) students, with two beating their chests and making monkey noises as a third passed silently.
- Roommates Jakirya Metcalf and Victoria Johnson told "CBS Mornings" in an interview aired Wednesday that they confronted the women, and that one said the group had done the same at four doors and "didn't mean any harm." Johnson said a second woman kept gesturing.
- Another roommate, Kaiyden Caldwell, said the apology does not change what happened, while Johnson's mother said everyone needs to be accountable. The three roommates said they plan to remain at Ole Miss, where they study nursing, radiology and psychology.
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The Spin
Left narrative
These actions are deeply xenophobic and abhorrent — no apology scrubs that clean. A withdrawal letter isn't accountability when the people targeted still have to live and study where it happened. Repeat incidents on the same campus show that condemning statements without real discipline change nothing.
Right narrative
A public university is bound by the First Amendment, and the full details aren't known at the moment. Without even knowing the full story, the public is caving to an online mob by punishing speech, signaling that student rights vanish the moment a video trends. This shouldn't be turned into a polarizing cancel culture firestorm.
