About 30 black students from Valdosta State University were escorted out from the campus speech last Monday,though they weren't causing a disturbance,
The African-American students were standing silently in the bleachers during the Donald Trump rally. According to Tahjila Davis, a student at Valdosta State in her facebook post said she and other students had only wanted to attend the event at the university's physical education complex to see what Trump had to say.
"After we got our tickets, waited in line, went through security and walked to get our seats, Trumps secret service came up to us and asked us to leave," Davis said in the post. "Again, a group of all black students who WERE NOT there to protest, but to sit in the rally like every else, got KICKED OUT FOR NO REASON."
Other groups of students said they had intended to sit in silent protest at the rally, many wearing all black, according to USA Today
But the racial aspect of Monday's ejection is heightened by history and context. Valdosta State University only began to allow black students to attend in 1963; nine years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that separate public educational institutions for black and white students were unconstitutional.
"I think we got kicked out because we're a group of black people," one of the students said. "It shows you how racist our own school is that we can't even go to our own school complex."
Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks denied that the campaign knew the students were removed; however Valdosta Police Chief Brian Childress appeared to confirm that Trump's team had the students ejected.
Childress added the students were removed after causing a "disturbance."
"They were not removed because of signs, because of their belief, or because of race," he said, repeating that "Trump staff" had been involved in the students' ejection. "They were removed because they were loud and disruptive and dropping the F bomb."
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