Alt: A seemingly innocuous scene of a little white girl skipping toward a plantation mansion... which is the opening scene of Antebellum, a movie about the cruel abuses and inherent inhumanity of enslaving people, and the modern white supremacist movement to return to that racist disenfranchisement. It is captioned "There are precious things", which suggests that either the person who created this gif has never seen Antebellum, or that they somehow are comfortable, even happy, with how this scene progresses past their clip: to slaves working, soldiers massing, a captured Black woman hauled off horseback, a man and woman trying desperately to escape, the second woman fleeing for her life only to be lassoed and dragged by horse. Both will eventually be killed.

Black UA students reported receiving racist text messages from a slew of anonymous phone numbers Wednesday. The messages, each seemingly coming from a different phone number with area codes inside and...