A Columbia student seen on video harassing a group of undergraduate black students

A white student from Columbia College New York was seen in a video shouting and reprimanding a group of black-level students, their saying whites are the "best thing that has happened in the world".

The video, which became viral and elicited negative feedback among social media users, showed the young man, identified by a university newspaper as a student, outside the library of l & # 39; school. Sunday morning, shouting: "Europeans built the modern world."

It also elicited a long reaction from undergraduate deans at college, part of Columbia University, denouncing racism.

"We are alarmed by the upsurge in incidents of racism and hate speech in our world today," reads the statement. "It is more important than ever that we continually defend our core values ​​and reaffirm our commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive campus community, and at Columbia we stand firmly against white supremacist language and violence."

For almost a minute tirade, the student is seen screaming racial remarks that many social media have found racist and offensive.

"We built the modern world," said the student, identified by the school newspaper. "We invented science and industry, and you want to tell us to stop because, oh my God, we are so bad, we saved billions of people from starvation."

He went on to say, "Whites are the best of the world, we are so great, I love and love whites." [19659007] The group he seems to be talking about is visible in the video. One student gave the middle finger as the undisciplined individual. he continued his verbal attack.

"We are whites, we did everything, I do not hate others, I only like whites," the student said.

According to a tweet of a woman who claimed to be a student at Columbia and to be friends with some of the people were harassed, the student continued to harass and follow the group after the end of the video.

"These are my friends, this is not good," she wrote on Twitter.

The Black Students' School Organization said in a statement posted on Facebook that she was disgusted and that she would discuss a "plan of action". action "at a meeting of the board of directors Monday night.

The Columbia University Student Organization of Latinxs is declared "scandalized" by the video asking the school to hold the student responsible.

"We also wish to point out that this type of incident does not occur in isolation and we ask Columbia University to consider this as an institutional problem that is perpetuated and busi Ness practice," said the group on Facebook.