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Old Dominion University condemns racist video featuring school sweatshirt

NORFOLK, Va. -- A civil rights group and officials at Old Dominion University are condemning a racist video that was circulating online until YouTube removed it.

The Virginian-Pilot reports that the video shows a white woman in an ODU sweatshirt using expletives and racial slurs in a rap rant against black people. The video is titled “White Gal - White Power.”

YouTube posted on its website that the video had been removed Tuesday morning for violating the site’s policy on hate speech.

Student government President Rachael Edmonds told CBS Norfolk affiliate WTKR-TV that, as a leader on campus, she sees a lot of things, but never something to this level.

“This was shocking,” she said. “I had very few words when I first looked at the video, merely brought me to tears.”

ODU President John Broderick said in a statement that the “vile video” represents an act of hate and intolerance.

Matt Thomas, spokesman for the ODU NAACP, told The Virginia-Pilot that the video was even more offensive because it was posted during Black History month.

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