密西西比大学女生在黑人学生公寓门前学猴叫视频疯传：18岁女生致歉退学、校方启动调查
一段13秒的门铃摄像头视频记录下11月6日晚的一幕，随后在 TikTok 上播放超过1,290万次：三名白人女生走过密西西比大学学生 Jakiyra Metcalf 与另外两名黑人学生合住的公寓门前，其中两人对着镜头捶胸、发出猴子的叫声和手势，随后笑着走开。Metcalf 把视频发到网上并标注了学校；视频中的女生住在同一栋楼的楼上，这栋楼是学校租用的学生公寓。
密西西比大学主管学生事务的副校长 Shawnboda Mead 11月8日发表声明，谴责视频中的行为冒犯、伤人且不可接受，表示学校已由学生行为处理部门与平等机会部门启动调查，并确认视频中的女生都是该校学生。用猴子的形象影射黑人在美国有长期的种族主义历史，这类手势被普遍视为侮辱；该校2024年5月也发生过一名学生在抗议活动上对一名黑人学生做猴子手势的事件，那名学生随后被其所属兄弟会除名。
11月10日，视频中第一个做手势的18岁大一新生 Alaina Kunes 通过律师发表声明致歉。她说，自己在事发前从未见过那几名女生，也不知道她们的种族，但承认自己的行为麻木、不当而且伤害很深。其律师的发言人证实，她已经自愿退学，并非被停学、也不是被学校要求离校。网民随后把她的家庭与威斯康星州一家汽车经销店联系起来，那家店在网上遭到抨击。Metcalf 等三名住户11月11日向当地媒体讲述了当晚出门与对方对质的经过；目前没有人因此被刑事起诉，校方调查仍在进行。
Viral Video of Monkey Noises Outside Black Students' Apartment at Ole Miss: 18-Year-Old Apologizes and Withdraws as University Investigates
A 13-second doorbell-camera video recorded on the evening of November 6 has been viewed more than 12.9 million times on TikTok: three white women walk past the apartment door of University of Mississippi student Jakiyra Metcalf, who lives there with two other Black students, and two of them beat their chests and make monkey noises and gestures toward the camera before walking away laughing. Metcalf posted the video and tagged the university; the women in it live upstairs in the same building, a student housing complex leased by the university.
Shawnboda Mead, the university's vice chancellor for student affairs, issued a statement on November 8 condemning the behavior in the video as offensive, hurtful and unacceptable, and said the university's student conduct and equal opportunity offices had opened an investigation and confirmed that the women are students at the school. Comparing Black people to monkeys has a long racist history in the United States, and such gestures are widely regarded as a slur; in May 2024 a student at the same university was filmed making monkey gestures at a Black student during a protest and was later removed by his fraternity.
On November 10, Alaina Kunes, the 18-year-old freshman seen making the gestures first, issued an apology through her attorney. She said that before the incident she had never met the women involved and was unaware of their race, while recognizing that her actions were insensitive, inappropriate and deeply harmful. A spokesperson for her attorney confirmed she has voluntarily withdrawn from the university and was neither suspended nor asked to leave. Online users then tied her family to a Wisconsin car dealership, which came under fire on social media. Metcalf and her two roommates spoke to local media on November 11 about confronting the trio outside that night; no one has been criminally charged, and the university investigation is continuing.
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