300 Students Walk Bullying Victim To Class

When a 19-year-old sophomore at Baylor University was racially harassed and bullied last week, she shared her story online.

Without judgment, anger, or hatred, she managed to express the fears she and other minority students have for their safety — and the school took notice.

On Friday, November 11th, over 300 students gathered to walk this student to class and ensure that she felt safe and loved on campus.

SHARE this article on Facebook, because even though you can’t #walkwithtasha, you can still stand with her. 

Last Wednesday, in Waco, Texas, Natasha Nkhama experienced bullying.

The 19-year-old college sophomore was walking alone on Baylor University campus when another student targeted and racially harassed her.

We typically think of bullying as 10-year-olds knocking down smaller kids for lunch money.

But that idea is really outdated. 25% of all students are bullied at school, and 41% of students face some kind of racial discrimination by their peers.

Natasha took to Facebook after the incident.

Her emotional post described what happened as she walked between classes on campus.”On my way to class, this guy went out of his way to bump into me and… shove me off the sidewalk,” she said. “He said ‘no n*ggers allowed on the sidewalk’.”Despite this racist, horrible act, Natasha said she wasn’t angry. “I am not mad, I am not sad, and I am not scared because God has not given me a spirit of fear but of a sound mind. But I am disappointed.”

Natasha’s friend, Jaileene Maite Garza, then posted the video to her Twitter and tweeted it at Baylor.

It’s been retweeted over 4,000 times and liked nearly as many times. But responses on Twitter were varied: some were just as mean as the bullying she’d experienced.It caused an uproar and social media took to using the tag #IWalkWithNatasha, showing their support.