Earlier this semester, I was standing outside of a Dom's Lounge party after it had ended. I was standing with some African - American girlfriends of mine, and there were several athletes/football players standing around as well. Two came up behind our group, and we could hear them saying "Yeah, were about to smash, were gonna smash" etc. (which is a pretty violent statement in itself). One of them proceeded to say "Yea, we're about to smash, even one of these black bitches." After someone said something to him along the lines of 'go somewhere else if you're going to say that sort of thing,' he and his friend began to argue with us about there free speech rites, and how we were "dirty" for assuming smash to mean something sexual. Though this isn't an excuse for what was said at all, they were obviously drunk. No one but other girls of color came up to see what was wrong and defend us, though plenty of people were around and probably heard.
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