Their lawyers might argue that their First Amendment rights have been violated.
But, this frat’s little song does go further than using a word. They’re also singing about hanging someone from a tree. And not all of them were expelled; only the two students reportedly leading the song were.
According to one of my sons, white students at his college use that word often. He’s even noticed them using it in front of black students. (For the record, my son is not “white” and doesn’t use the word.) So, apparently, college students don’t get into trouble for using a word.
But, I would suppose that, if two of those students were to lead other students in a song about gleefully lynching someone, someone might take issue.
I wish someone would have “taken issue” when the Black Panthers put out calls for the murder of whites, including specifically white infants, before the Zimmerman trial. But in this nation, there’s one law for anti “people of color” racism, and another law, or no law, for anti-white racism.