Some students at American University got so fed up with the racist comments they were reading on social media that they decided to spread them. They launched an online campaign, #TheRealAU, to blast out the racism they see, in hopes it will make it more difficult to ignore. They have been posting and sharing screenshots of slurs. They plastered them on the school’s front gates. And they are demanding that the administration do something. “It has been getting worse,” said Daniel Marks, a senior from Atlanta. He noticed a change after a black teenager was shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo. At a campus protest last fall mourning the death, he said, white students walking by on the quad called some of his friends a racial slur. At a larger gathering the next week, it happened again, he said. Racial tensions have been amping up on the D.C. campus since, Marks said.

October 21, 2015 ・ From The Washington Post