Blackface Photo: Prairie View A&M University

By Nicole Kessler

See our full article about the 11 blackface selfies and videos posted this fall.

In September, a white student at a historically black university posted a Snapchat photo of herself wearing blackface.

The Prairie View A&M University student posted the photo with the caption, “When you just tryna fit in at my HBCU.” The photo went viral.

President George C. Wright released a statement on the university’s Facebook page on Sept. 29, and said this incident would not tarnish the standard of excellence the school has had for the past 140 years:

“…I know clearly the hurt and harm that can be done from intentional and unintentional acts of this nature…Let me be clear that, whether intentional or unintentional, the actions have the same impact, and as a community, we denounce any racial slight whenever it occurs.”

According to a university report from January, some 84 percent of students are African Americans at this historically black university.