November 26, 2014

Girl who made a racial tweets amid Ferguson protest apologizes


High school senior from Illinois felt the wrath of the internet after tweeting her reaction to Monday night's grand jury verdict on Officer Darren Wilson.

'I don't feel sorry for black people. If you hate us so much GO BACH (sic) TO AFRICA. we should never bought you,' she wrote.

Tweet went viral and her high school was inundated with people complaining about the student's ignorance.

Despite the backlash, the girl didn’t initially delete her post and at one point said she only regretted that the tweet had a typo in it, reports Buzzfeed

Oakwood High School was then forced to issue a statement stressing that the girl's opinion didn't reflect that of her school.
 
 
 

 

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