A Stanford student has been banned from campus a day after the university president condemned a series of racist social media posts made by the student.
Chaze Vinci, a student in Stanford University’s class of 2023, made posts to social media over the weekend depicting a Black student’s beheading, suggesting Black people are intended to be enslaved, and calling for the majority ethnic demographic at the school to start “running things.”
In an email sent to the Stanford community on Sunday, President Marc Tessier-Lavigne denounced “an ugly and disturbing series of social media posts.”
Then, amid continued backlash, Tessier-Lavigne announced on Monday that Vinci would be banned from entering campus as a “first step” to responding to the posts.
“The posts created pain, fear and anger for many people,” wrote Tessier-Lavigne. “The threatening language and identity-based attacks in the posts are totally inconsistent with what we want, or will accept, at Stanford.”
The president did not specify what other steps would be taken or how long Vinci will be banned from campus. Classes are scheduled to begin on Sept. 20.
Some of Vinci’s posts appear to interpret passages from the Bible chapter of Genesis as indicating that Black people descended from Noah’s son Ham through his son Canaan. In one post, Vinci cites Genesis 9: 25-27 to justify the enslavement of African people. “Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of the slaves will he be to his brothers. May Canaan be the slave of Shem and...
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