A University of Georgia fraternity self-suspended its operations over the weekend after racist messages from a chapter group messaging app were posted to Twitter.
Screenshots of the offensive messages pulled from a private GroupMe for the school's Lambda Chi Alpha chapter were posted Saturday evening by an African American student at the university who said some of the comments were directed at her.
The student, Arianna Mbunwe, has posted photos and videos on Twitter of students appearing to flout social distancing guidelines and gathering without masks since Aug. 23. She has also has been critical of the university's response to the coronavirus pandemic. The university did not immediately return a request for information about the number of confirmed coronavirus cases at the school.
Mbunwe, 20, a junior who is majoring in political science, said she received the screenshots from a friend after a rally she had organized Saturday demanding that the university take further action to slow the spread of Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. "They were targeting me because my account has become very popular for exposing the people who are contributing to the rise in cases," she said in an interview Monday.In a Sept. 5 tweet, Mbunwe criticized a member of a sorority at the university who was alleged to have broken social distancing guidelines. The same person, she said, had posted a black square on her Instagram account June 2 in solidarity with the #BlackoutTuesday social media campaign calling for racial justice.
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