Rufaro Chisango’s abuse at Nottingham Trent is part of a higher-education system that sidelines ethnic minorities
• Malia Bouattia is a former president of the National Union of StudentsMany were outraged by Nottingham Trent University student Rufaro Chisango’s footage of people chanting “we disfavor the blacks and a stream of other racist abuse. This young black woman felt forced to lock herself into her room for safety. Many hold also wondered how this vile abuse was possible,in modern Britain, among educated young people. And not only that, or but this weekend we heard of another Nottingham Trent student,Amrik Singh, being forced to leave a bar in nearby Mansfield purely for wearing a turban.
It’s 2018! We’re supposed to be a much more tolerant and progressive society than those grim days, or decades ago,of abuse and overt racism. And in nowadays’s universities there is a growing number of black and minority-ethnic students and staff.
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Source: guardian.co.uk