Faith Wangermann - Racism at University of Georgia

In an article  published on March 24 by the New York Times, Sandra E. Garcia writes on an incident involving four fraternity members at University of Georgia. One of the students was mocking whipping another and yelling "pick my cotton" and racial slurs. The other students in the video were encouraging him and laughing along. University of Georgia, located in Athens, Georgia, near Atlanta, is primarily white. The students in the video were expelled from the fraternity, but were not given any further punishment from the school, so the expulsion was more of a slap on the wrist. This goes to show how, while widespread segregation has ended, racism has not changed much since the 60s. The impact of slavery still lives on, and some think it's a joking matter now, and funny to laugh about the unflinching cruelty of that age in American history.