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Two white Texas girls have been in hot water since a recording of their racist improvised rap songstarted circulating on social media, and they have since released a letter of apology in which they blame society for their actions.
The recording, which was made in June 2013, begins with one girl rapping, “N***as n***as n***as they always look at me, I want to kill them now, I want to hang them from a tree,” and continues to make reference to killing black boys as well as derogatory references to Latino and Asian-Americans.
However, the girls insisted that they did not understand what they were doing. “At this time in our lives, racism was not the talk of the country nor had we ever witnessed the true power of social media, twitter was still fresh and we had never heard of anyone getting in trouble for posting anything on social media, it was the beginning of this social era,” said one of the girls in a letter written to classmates and teachers. MOREHERE
this is not safe for work listening: