Warwick University is under fire after racist remarks were written on a bunch of bananas inside the room of a Nigerian student, Faramade Ifaturoti, 19, who tweeted an image of the fruit and wrote: “Just entered the kitchen and look at what one of my flatmates has done. I am extremely disgusted.”
Monkey and nigga, can clearly be seen written on the fruit. The tweet quickly gathered attention and has been retweeted almost 3,000 times. The university responded to it, saying: “We’re really sorry you’ve had to experience this. It is completely unacceptable. Please DM us your email and we will escalate.”
Many tweeters, including the victim herself, expressed disappointment that the university did not respond sooner. Ifaturoti herself replied: “I’m highly disappointed that it took a Twitter escalation in order for you to respond.” In February, Ifaturoti had also complained about racism in a tweet, when she wrote: “Racism is very real. Especially in this Warwick I can’t lie.”
