http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/22/us/firestorms-at-2-colleges-after-students-share-racially-charged-photos.html 2016-09-21 17:26:08 Firestorms at 2 Colleges After Students Share Racially Charged Photos In the span of a week, students have faced widespread criticism after posting photos to social media. === In the span of a week, students at two colleges have found themselves at the center of widespread criticism for posting racially charged photos to social media. At Belmont University in Nashville, a student was expelled from the school on Tuesday after sharing a photo of football players with the Philadelphia Eagles raising their fists during the national anthem, according to a The student, a freshman whose name has not been released but who posted under the user name juswoodard97, included a caption using a racist epithet to describe the players and suggested that “every one of them” needed “a bullet in their head. If you don’t like this country, get the hell out.” Other students quickly reposted “After investigating a racist social media post that surfaced earlier today, we can report that the person is no longer a student at Belmont. The University rejects comments rooted in racism or bigotry.” When reached by phone, a spokeswoman, Hope Buckner, would not comment on details of the student’s status, and instead pointed to the university’s statement. This is the second recent high-profile case of racially charged social media posts from college campuses. A firestorm swept through Kansas State University after a woman posted a photo to Snapchat of herself and her friend wearing blackface and making gang signs, captioned with a word containing racial slang. That photo was quickly circulated on Twitter and Facebook, and people tagged the university in the post. On Sept. 15, the university “I feel like the majority of white people on this campus don’t understand where we’re coming from,” a student told people who attended the forum, according to a Kansas State did not name the student who posted to Snapchat, but she was later identified as Paige Shoemaker by journalists, Ms. Shoemaker did not respond to email and phone messages seeking comment, but she apologized for the episode on “We had only meant for it to be taken in a funny way, but we clearly understand that what we said should never be joked around about,” she wrote. “People shouldn’t joke around about such a serious topic like this because it feeds into racism.”