Booted for Hate

A freshman at Belmont University is no longer a student as of Tuesday afternoon -- after he posted a racist photo on Snapchat, labeling three National Football League players with the N-word. The student's post showed three Philadelphia Eagles players raising their fists during the national anthem with the caption visible below in full. Racist social media comments are nothing new in higher education. But many times colleges say that there is nothing they can do about them, either because of First Amendment protections or -- at private colleges such as Belmont -- a reluctance to punish any form of speech.