Some Black FIU students feel unsafe and unheard after campus group’s racist texts
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Florida’s successful efforts to limit how race, racism and even history can be discussed in college classrooms is shaping life at Florida International University, where students and professors say a climate of fear is stifling open dialogue even as they deal with the aftermath of a racist group chat scandal.
The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s Republican Party started a group chat primarily for conservative students last fall (2024) — and within three weeks it was filled with racist slurs, someone wrote dozens of ways of violently killing Black people and the chat was renamed after what one member described as “Nazi heaven.”
In the weeks following it was revealed that participants were using variations of the N-word 400 times and calling for violence against Black people, many Black students are still reeling from the hateful language found in the chat, fearing for their safety and calling for consequences for those involved.
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