NAACP: Expel NC Students For Anti-Obama Graffiti

RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina NAACP wants North Carolina State University to expel four students accused of painting racist messages about President-elect Obama on campus.

School Chancellor James Oblinger held a closed-door meeting Wednesday with NAACP President Rev. William Barber to discuss the graffiti in the campus free expression tunnel.

Barber wants an official response within 48 hours. Oblinger says both sides have agreed to move forward.

Four students admitted spray-painting the messages, including one that used a racial slur and suggested shooting Obama in the head.

Officials have said the unidentified students won't face criminal charges because the writing wasn't a hate crime since it was written on a wall where free speech is encouraged.

Comments

[Ohsnap]

It's a death threat, not free speech.

Expel them.

[swanie]

Actions have consequences and that includes this idiocy . . . . . .
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[Hotshortie]

See this is where all the Sarah Palin HATE/Republican HATE is just waaaay over board.
Why on earth don't these kids know that slurs or writing any form of hate is WRONG!

[gladys46]

Imagine 5 more children (Palin's) apparently being dis/misinformed and thereby hatred! This is how it is learned at the breakfast tables and this is who perpetrates it !

[swanie]

They MUST KNOW there are consequences - and they have to apy the piper.
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[barackobama4prez]

WTF? This is exactly why hate crimes continue. slap them on the wrist and they will get worse and worse.

[timthemedic]

Regardless if its on a wall where free speech is encouraged, they should be expelled. If they wrote "hang all blacks" or "evicerate Oblinger" they are still promoting violence. Not to mention that they have already admitted to wanting to kill a president elect. Even if they are not expelled, I hope they will be brought to trial and found guilty.

[jorge4u]

I may not be a lawyer but it seems to me that suggesting to shoot the President in the head is a matter that the Secret Service takes very seriously and there may be some punishment.

[Gumby123]

Not that I agree with their sentiment, but free speech isn't free. Or at least it's not free for some.