Students in Texas rallied behind a black classmate after she was allegedly told, “no n—gers allowed on the sidewalk” while walking to class.
Natasha Nkhama, a student at Baylor University in Waco, Tex., posted a video on her Facebook page about an encounter she had with a man while walking to class on Nov. 9.
“I was just shocked, like I had no words,” continued Nkhama in her video.
She went on to say two other students behind her witnessed the incident and confronted the unknown man by asking him what he was doing and that his actions weren’t acceptable.
Nkhama said the man told them he was “just trying to make America great again.”
The harassment on Nkhama isn’t the first-racially targeted event in America since Donald Trump’s surprising election victory over Hillary Clinton.
There were reports of Donald Trump supporters allegedly robbing a female student in San Diego and making comments about the Muslim community, a baseball field in New York was seen with the words “Make America White Again” on it and a black doll was found with a noose around its neck in an elevator at a dorm in Buffalo.
Since the election, there have been ongoing protests across the U.S. for Trump to step down as president-elect.
Twitter has been filled with hashtags, such as #DumpTrump, #NeverTrump, #TrumpProtest and #NotMyPresident, to protest against the billionaire.
“If you voted for Donald Trump, I hope you understand what that means from someone else’s point of view,” Nkhama said at the ending of her video.
But her story didn’t stop there.
Nkhama’s post was shared by her friend on Twitter and it quickly went viral.
Fellow students of Nkhama created the hastag #IWalkWithNatasha to show they were against racism.
And on Nov. 11, students walked Nkhama to class to protest discrimination.
“Today’s walk with me was not only for me. It was for anyone who has/does/will or knows someone who has experienced discrimination or oppression,” Nkhama wrote in a follow-up post. “We choose to love.”
Global News has reached out to Nkhama but did not receive a response upon posting of this article.
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