Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) applauded white students at the University of Mississippi who were caught on video mocking a Black woman with monkey noises during protest over the Israel-Hamas war this week.
The video shows a white student dancing like a monkey and making monkey noises near a Black woman while the crowd behind him chanted “lock her up.”
Collins posted the video of the protest and wrote: “Ole Miss taking care of business.”
Several social media users slammed Collins for praising the racist display, including Mississippi Free Press reporter Ashton Pittman.
“A white Ole Miss frat boy dances like a monkey and makes monkey noises near a Black woman who was protesting for Palestine,” Pittman wrote in response to Gov Tate Reeve (R-Miss.) and Collins. “Is this heart warming?”
Pittman also reported that the frat boys threw “food, drinks and bottles” at the approximately 50 pro-Palestinian protestors while they “waved Trump flags and flipped the protestors off.”
