Austin American-Statesman: Racist past lingers at UT
On a recent Thursday morning, University of Texas senior Mitchell McCradic was perusing the college networking Web site Facebook.com when he saw something that put him on edge.
In a picture highlighted on a friend’s profile, he saw a white student wearing brown costume paint, foil on his teeth, a sideways hat and an oversized T-shirt. He was posed next to a black student with a caption that read, “Can you tell which one is real?”
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