‘We’re Being Persecuted’: ASU Students Cry Racism, Sexism After Being Punished For Harassing White Students

Two black female students at Arizona State University filmed themselves verbally berating two white, male students who were studying in the school’s multicultural center and had a “Police Lives Matter” sticker on their computer. The two female students were investigated for their harassment and found responsible for “interfering with or disrupting university or university-sponsored activities.”

They were lightly punished; told to write a three-page paper “on how, next time, when [they] talk with white people about race and society [they] will be civil,” the Daily Caller reported.

This enraged the students, who immediately claimed they were “being persecuted” because they were “defending our multicultural center from racism and sexism.” The two students, undergraduate Mastaani Qureshi and graduate student Sarra Tekola, posted a video on Instagram claiming the investigation into them was “racially biased” and that they were “forced to confront these men,” who were quietly studying, because ASU faculty refused to tell the men to leave.

“Dear White People, A.K.A. ASU — You openly discriminated against us on Nov. 16 when you handed down your decision from your racially biased investigation,” Qureshi said, according to the Caller. “We’re being persecuted for defending our multicultural center from racism and sexism … ASU is a violent place.”