COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University is conducting an investigation after a group of students visiting campus from an inner-city Dallas high school were harassed Tuesday with racial slurs and a demand to "go back where you came from."
About 60 juniors from Uplift Hampton Preparatory were visiting the campus, according to state Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas, when two black students were approached by a white woman wearing Confederate flag earrings. West said the woman showed the students her earrings and asked them what they thought about them. Then a group of "white male and female students" began taunting the students "using the most well-known racial slur that's directed toward African Americans," said West, whose district includes the Uplift Hampton Preparatory campus.
West wasn't present when the incident occurred, but he said he was briefed on it later by A&M System Chancellor John Sharp.
A&M staffers who were accompanying the students on the tour called campus police. No one was charged; the responding officer told people at the scene that the harassers were expressing their First Amendment rights, according to West. University officials are now reviewing the incident, West said.
Soon after, A&M President Michael Young sent out a campus-wide e-mail saying he was outraged by the event.
"I deeply regret the pain and hurt feelings this incident caused these young students. Be assured that we take such allegations very seriously," Young wrote.
this is the type of kids we're talking about. 
