LUBBOCK, Texas – Officials and students at Texas Tech University are condemning recent “offensive” messages in a “Frat Chat” filled with racist comments that prompted the resignation of the school’s Interfraternity Council president.
The messages, made public last week, targeted Hispanics and included suggestions to shoot immigrants for “sport.”
Those who saw and reported screen shots of the comments said it appeared to be a GroupMe chat where at least six users, including Kyle Mitchell, president of the school’s Interfraternity Council, exchanged numerous messages that expressed their opinions concerning immigrants who cross into the U.S. at the Texas-Mexico border.
“Don’t bother reporting them, just use a firing squad,” Mitchell allegedly wrote under the username “The Cocaine Cowboy.” “I’m telling you build a wall, and the us govt. can sell permits for legal hunting on the border and we can make a sport of this, can be a new tax revenue stream for the govt.”
The poster continued, saying if he ran for U.S. president, he’d “stop all of their support and let them die.”
As the conversation continued, members of the “Frat Chat” ridiculed immigrants who work in the service industry and said “death” was the “solution.”
Some members of the chat suggested they would grant amnesty to cooks, gardeners, housekeepers and construction workers. The posts used disparaging and vulgar language to describe illegal immigrants and began after Mitchell allegedly wrote: “let’s argue about immigration.”
