joining us now is the editor in chief of jezebel, jessica coen.did you find out about these racist tweets in the first place? >> we were just doing a search for barack obama and taking a look at the twitter reaction and saw some unfortunate things and started doing things for racial slurs and so many tweets came up it was shocking. >> shocking. >> maybe not shocking but upsetting certainly. >> and then did you decide as a result of this shocking news to make an example of some of these students who had put out this racist trash? >> well, first we wanted to document what was going on. that was the first post but the story doesn't end with documenting it. it's important to report what happens after the tweets go out there. many of these students are actually representing their zools as parts of teams or they're looking for college scholarships and more importantly they're parts of institutions that have very clear codes against this part of hate speech. so what happen whence you put that sort of message out there? that's the question. we called the

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