Racist messages target black freshmen at Penn
PHILADELPHIA _ African-American freshmen at University of Pennsylvania Friday were targeted with racist hate messages in a cellphone text-messaging app under the group name "Nigger Lynching."
The first message in the GroupMe app, popular among college students, was sent at 10 a.m. with the question "Sup Niggers," from someone using the alias "Daddy Trump."
A calendar function in the app scheduled several "Nigger Lynchings." Subsequent messages named 161 people, including those who created the group and the students who were targeted.
A second message, from someone who posted under the name GORT, said "message Heil Trump."
President-elect Donald Trump is an alumnus of Penn's Wharton School of Business. His daughter Tiffany Trump graduated from Penn in May.
University officials said it called on police and information security officials to identify who posted the messages.
The account appeared to have been started by college students from Oklahoma. One image displayed an old image of a lynching, with the note "I love America."
_The Philadelphia Inquirer
