Apartheid. USA 1988

October 9, 1987:

A complaint by a black student that he was assaulted verbally and physically at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, has become a focus of attention on this suburban campus. De Mille Halliburton (23) said it was after midnight and he was with two female friends who happened to be white. There had been a party at a tennis court. ‘We could see security had broken up the keg party,’ said Mr Halliburton ‘when one guy calls out my name and says “De Mille, you beer nigger, you come to my party and don't pay”.’ Later at a hearing by a committee of students, faculty members and administrators, which lasted ten hours,

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the student who made the comment explained that ‘beer nigger’ simply meant someone who drinks beer without paying. Less than an hour later, when walking the two women to their car, De Mille heard someone say, ‘There he is’ and six guys approached. Luckily friends from surrounding dorms came out and held them back. The black student went half an hour later to the security officer at the gate to report the incident, but the man answered, ‘Why didn't you file it when it happened?’ Later the complaint was filed with the Dean of students, Tom Anderson. Of the 1 050 students at the College 20 percent are foreign and 13 to 15 percent minority students.^154.

154. The New York Times, from a report by James Ferron