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Ole Miss students say apology cannot undo racist gestures

In a CBS Mornings interview with Jericka Duncan, the students describe the harassment outside their apartment and their determination to continue their studies.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 763,710 views a day, 55 times a normal first day on this channel (13,902).

Ole Miss students who say they were targeted in alleged racist incident on Ring video speak out

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0:48The students describe feeling hurt and devastated after discovering the racist doorbell-camera footage.
1:16They recount confronting the women, saying one apologized while another continued making gestures.
2:43The students explain why the written apology does not undo the disrespect of the gestures and noises.
3:09A student's mother calls for accountability.
3:46Duncan reports an ongoing university investigation and the students' determination to continue their degrees.

Asked how she felt after discovering the Ring-camera footage, one of the Ole Miss students answers with a single word: "Hurt."

The CBS Mornings interview gives the students targeted by racist harassment outside their apartment room to describe what happened afterward. Speaking with correspondent Jericka Duncan, they recount confronting the women who made monkey sounds and gestures outside their door. One apologized, they say, while another continued making gestures.

The report includes a written public apology from one of the women. But the students explain that an apology does not erase what happened. They say the gestures and noises were disrespectful regardless of the explanation offered for them. A mother seated with them emphasizes accountability.

The interview drew more than half a million views within fourteen hours, far beyond the channel's usual first-day audience for a regular video. Its comment section was also substantially busier than a typical upload's, although much of the discussion focuses on questioning the apology rather than the students' own account.

Duncan reports that the university is investigating. The students, meanwhile, say they intend to continue their degrees, with plans spanning psychology, nursing and radiology. The segment leaves space for those ambitions alongside their account of the harassment.

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