Curtis Bunn is an Atlanta-based journalist for NBC BLK who writes about race.
A group of pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of Mississippi became surrounded by a larger and rowdy group of counterprotesters Thursday, and had to be escorted into a building by police. Videos of the protest posted on social media show the larger crowd, of about 200 seemingly mostly white young people, surrounding and shouting down the multi-racial group of between 30 and 60 pro-Palestinian protesters.
Members of the crowd also chanted, “Lock her up!” as Smith was guided away from the hecklers by police, in a video shared on social media by Rep. Mike Collins, R-Georgia. The racial elements of the encounter led many observers online to point out Mississippi’s long and storied history of violent racism against Black people. Its senators voted to send all of its Black people back to Africa more than 100 years ago.
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