Alleged racial profiling during a campus tour at Colorado State University has a New Mexico mother upset after her sons were singled out of their group and questioned by police Monday, USA Today reported.
Two native American brothers, Thomas Kanewakeron Gray, 19, and Lloyd Skanahwati Gray, 17, had always dreamt of studying at the school and with campus tours being held, they managed to scrape together enough money to pay for the seven-hour trip from their family's home in Santa Cruz, New Mexico, to Fort Collins, Colorado.
However, once they arrived the tour had already started and things took a turn for the worse.
CSU noted that a parent who was part of the campus tour felt nervous being around the two boys and called police, CNN noted.
Responding officers pulled the brothers aside and questioned them but, once they determined that they were part of the tour group, let them rejoin.
However, by that time the tour had moved on.
The boys' mother Lorraine Kahneratokwas Gray highlighted the incident in a post on Facebook.
"They had been the victim of racism and that they weren't safe there," she said, noting that the reason her sons had been targeted was because they were "shy and quiet, and weren’t actively participating in the tour banter."
In an emailed statement, the university said it was conducting a review of the incident, which it called "sad and frustrating from nearly every angle," Time noted.
"As a university community, we deeply regret the experience of these students while they were guests on our campus," the statement read.
Colorado's Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne, who serves as the chair of Colorado's Commission on Indian Affairs, addressed the issue in a statement.
"We want to reiterate our commitment to ensuring our public universities are open and welcoming to all students and hope that the young men will not be deterred in their pursuit of attending college in Colorado, a traditional homeland to many tribal nations," she said, according to CNN.
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