from buzzfeed. tell me just a little bit for folks what haven't read it yet what it's about. >> well the essay is about myself at school that really does exist. i was there from 2000 to 2004. it's just about what it's like to be a student of color on a campus where there are so many of the trappings of the confederacy. one was school tradition, there's a dormitory that's still named after jefferson davis who was an alumni there and there was a fraternity that had lots of confederate flags hanging out on campus. it's just about what it was like to try to go to school and focus on school but also feel really unsafe and unwelcome. and i'd like to say that my story is both common but not so common because obviously not a lot of schools i would hope i guess i can't provide proof of this but i would hope there aren't a bunch of confederate flags on campuses than not. >> i have attended or taught at a lot of southern universities.