By CNN Staff
Oberlin, Ohio (CNN) - A day after students at Oberlin College put down their books to focus on how to respond to a spate of hate messages targeting blacks, Jews and gays on campus, classes resumed Tuesday amid tension.
The messages included graffiti with swastikas, posters containing racial slurs and other derogatory statements targeting various student communities and fliers bearing racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic language.
A student's report on Monday that she had seen someone on campus dressed like a member of the Ku Klux Klan led the school to suspend classes for the day.
"I saw someone in what seemed to be KKK paraphernalia walking on a pathway, like, a pathway that leads to South Campus," the student, Sunceray Tavler, told CNN affiliate WJW. "Just seeing that and having that sink in, this is something that's real, that actually happens."
Police said they received a report of a student wearing a blanket on his or her shoulders but could not say whether the incidents were related.
Two students have been identified as being involved in the postings from February and will be subject to college disciplinary procedures, Oberlin police said.
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only the GOD knows your heart and what you think....
Why didn't they interview any white people?
If you can't take a Joke, then you should't be one!
II can't believe people are so dumb to think this isn't really happening. People wake the heck up! Hatred is breeding and doing quite well.
LOL....this is news?
Oberlin has repeatedly been in similar situations only to find that it was a minority student doing a "set up" like this so they could relish in protest marches and sit ins.
These kids fantasize about being civil rights heroes, but are frustrated by the lack of *real* racism...... so they contrive their own.
Amazing that this trivial story makes the national news.... it just shows how hard we work at pounding the carpet for crumbs of "racism!" and we're reduced to this.
They should have set this up at Ole Miss to at least make it remotely plausible.
Yea but the people that believe this crap have grown up hearing about this constantly when white people arent nearly as racist as other groups nowadays.
green racist...really?
Oh Dear God Obama, save us from racism, stretch forth thy mighty hand and heal our land.
No need for Obama to "heal" anything- he's part white and was raised in HAWAII by a white racist grandmother and is not really black. Don't worry about "healing" because some of us don't mind throwin it back in your faces....and from what I've seen "you" don't like it coming back your way...
Apparently some people are still living in the 1930's. What is wrong with some people. I thought the younger generation were being more progressive.
I agree - it's the 21st Century for heavens' sake. When are we humans going to look beyond the melanin and see one another for who we really are - members of the same species. I'm really beginning to think that people with racial views may have some kind of mental disorder; having a very limited and skewed view and unfounded fear of others who are different. I can only imagine the hell they live through everyday, which results in them putting others through hell as well. An endless and sad cycle, indeed.
Black, white, tan, or any other color does not define who you are. Racism is extremely over rated. Its pointless, thats the truth no matter who you are. There shouldnt be things like this happening!
Oh, please. These kids are so brain dead they probably did it to "prove" society is "racist."
excuses!
Gi jon, fsacts are facts, news is news. Racist acts are on the rise, Black folks are used to this enviornment. Lived through it for hundreds of years.
Here you go again cnn the white racist are in full force for once can't you find something positive about white people
like what?