Two college students had a few moments to kill while their home spa treatments took effect. So what else were they to do besides make a video of themselves saying, “We true Negroes,” and “We come from the black hood” and spew racial epithets?
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To hear Rachel Cooper explain it, you’d think it was something that could happen to anyone: “We were doing facials and it happened to have been a brown facial mask,” she wrote when asked by a reporter about the clip. “We had to leave it on for 12 minutes. During that 12 minutes, we horribly decided to make a video that we regret and are not happy about … “
Cooper and her friend Jessica Heid have both issued apologies, and the University of Minnesota Duluth has condemned their behavior.
Next time there’s a lull in the mud-mask routine: Try watching TV.
Editor’s note: This article has been updated to correct the name of the university.
Read more at the Huffington Post.
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