NEWS YOU CAN USE: ARE YOUR ROMANTIC ATTRACTIONS RACIST? “After pressing ‘send,’ he immediately regretted it. Colorado College student Thaddeus Pryor realized he had acted recklessly when he made a Yik Yak post on campus which said that black women ‘aren’t hot.’ He soon deleted the message.” But not before his college “initially suspended Pryor for 21 months, lessening the sentence to six months after his request for an appeal. However, the school refused to give him a new hearing.”

Related: “What I believe about race is that race is not real,” Rachel Dolezal, former NAACP leader and African studies lecturer, tells the UK Guardian. “It’s not a biological reality. It’s a hierarchical system that was created to leverage power and privilege between different groups of people.”