Auburn University officials issued a statement that claims that the group message in which members listed racial slurs for white people on a Google Doc is not associated with the Black Student Union (BSU) or the university, as the whistleblower who leaked the information claimed.
The whistleblower sent the document and screenshots of the group message on the GroupMe messaging app to Auburn student Jaden Heard, who leaked the information to Turning Point USA (TPUSA), a conservative campus organization. TPUSA published a short article about the findings on its website last week.
1819 News spoke to Heard on Thursday morning. Heard said he’s not the whistleblower himself, but rather the whistleblower came to him about the information. The whistleblower chose to remain anonymous.
The document, titled “Creaker Names,” contained seven pages of a single-column list of racial slurs. 1819 News obtained a copy of the document from Heard. According to Urban Dictionary, “Creaker” is another word for “cracker,” used particularly when referring to an old white man.
Though the group message is titled “AU Connect: Brought to you by The Throwdown” and contains an Auburn logo, as seen on the screenshots obtained by 1819 News, the university said that the group “includes hundreds of people from multiple universities.”
“These comments did not occur on the Black Student Union GroupMe nor as part of any recognized Auburn University organization channel,” the statement read. “An investigation is...
Blow the whistle, get paid. A Justice Department bounty program that incentivizes employees to blow the whistle on their employers could lead to more whistleblowing as the Trump administration inte...