Student reports being the target of a racial slur on campus

Student reports being the target of a racial slur on campus

Rodney Adams ’21 and Jameel Uddin ’22 were approached by two white students who proceeded to call them a racial slur. Adams detailed this event in a Twitter thread titled "Experiencing a hate crime first hand on Middlebury Campus a thread:", which quickly went viral amongst the college community.

Jake Gaughan

The Campus

09/26/2020

Kemi Fuentes-George

"In a tweet linking to Adams’ original thread, Professor of Political Science Kemi Fuentes-George wrote that the event was indicative of broader social hierarchies at Middlebury. 'These same white students who are willing to call another student a “n*****” to his face — they take classes with POC professors. They gatekeeper social events. They dominate sports teams.'"