The hashtag #BlackatUark started trending on Twitter today because black students at the University of Arkansas shared some of their experiences in and out of the classrooms.
A group of students at The University of Arkansas are using Twitter as a tool to reclaim their voice in the face of adversity.
Check out some of these students Tweets:
#BlackAtUark is having your advisor decline a letter of recommendation for a NASA internship, and then being shocked that you got it anyway.
— pre-nup dick (@zaddy_501) June 15, 2020
https://twitter.com/trieditbih/status/1272627841545515008?s=21
#BlackatUARK is seeing white boys get a slap on the wrist for racism and hazing and not feeling safe on your own campus.
— 🫶🏽 (@simplyjasmeann) June 15, 2020
#BlackAtUARK Having you teacher tell you to explain to your all white class that racism is real and seen on a daily basis. Only for a white male classmate to say “yea i think black people are over reacting, it’s not that bad to have stop & frisk, if you think someone is guilty”
— Kissi💋 (@Kiss_kissi) June 15, 2020
#BlackatUark is creating a hashtag because the administration refuses to listen to the demands of black students
— arnold palmer’s wife (@thezaniyaksmith) June 15, 2020
https://twitter.com/blaisbian21/status/1272607974729682945?s=21
