Black student’s car trashed with fried chicken, afro pick

Elliot G. Holliday, a junior at N.C. State University, had been out with his friends on campus only to return to find his car had been covered in trash.

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Elliot G. Holliday, a junior at N.C. State University, had been out and about with his friends on campus on Sunday night only to return to find his car had been covered in trash.

He took to Facebook to post about the vandalism and his frustration, but when he looked closer at the trash, it was impossible to ignore the racial implications: a box of Popeye’s fried chicken, a bottle of chocolate milk, an afro pick and a bag of Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal.

“I am trying my best not to play the racism card, but whoever did this is making it incredibly difficult,” Holliday wrote. “The combination of the afro pick, chocolate milk, and the box of chicken scream that this was racially motivated.”

He added in a comment to the post that he had reported the incident to campus police but had been told that the parking lot didn’t have security cameras. Still, he said that he would not allow the university to ignore him.

“I will scream about this so loudly God will tell me to lower my voice,” he wrote. “You will listen when I speak, you will hear what I have to say, and you will take the appropriate course of action necessary to handle events like this.”

He also went on to link the vandalism to the recent inauguration of President Donald Trump, saying, “With the assumption that this was racially motivated and using context clues that a racist individual has just been sworn in to the office of POTUS, let me make one thing specifically clear. I don’t care what he thinks or what he claims about racism, it is WRONG, it is DISRESPECTFUL, and I will fight it until Hell freezes over and then continue to fight on the ice.”

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