#jazzyrowe

@Regranned from @gainingourdefinition - New update on the #jazzyrowe story. A white college student, #BriannaBrochu, has been secretly poisoning her black roommate, Chennel “Jazzy” Rowe, in an effort to try and get rid of her. Both young girls attend University of Hartford, however since the incident has been brought to light, UHart has announced that Brochu is no longer a student at the university and will not be returning. Brochu was arrested on October 28th after posting the following: The 18-year-old has since been charged with two misdemeanors at first: third-degree criminal mischief and second-degree breach of peace. However a charge of intimidation based on bigotry or bias, a second-degree felony, was later added. Jazzy Rowe shared her story in a Facebook post on Monday. A neighbor of Rowe had shown her Brochu’s post. The mind-boggling part of this entire situation is that Brochu used to do black hairstyles on other white people. Brianna has a page filled with pictures of white girls in braided and dreadlocked hairstyles. Here is a case of a girl who deliberately tried poisoning her black roommate and hated her, yet loves black culture. Many white women who are obsessed with black culture tend to be nasty and spiteful towards black women. Brochu was envious of Jazzy and that’s why she referred to her as ‘Jamaican barbie’. She believed that the term would be offensive to Rowe. Brianna Brochu is a prime example of why we must be aware of cultural appropriation. Brochu is mimicking black culture, yet hates those whom she is mimicking. This is not the only case of someone culturally appropriating black people yet also hating them. A KKK man showed up at one of the Charlottesville protests wearing dreadlocks. So dear white people: You can’t hate black people yet try to profit off of our culture and use us. And to all my black folks: They hate us, yet would love nothing more than to be us. - #regrann

@Regranned from @gainingourdefinition - #briannabrochu ... #jazzyrowe A freshman at the University of Hartford, Jazzy Rowe, has received an outpouring of support on social media after alleging that her former roommate systematically worked to poison her during the first few weeks of the school year. Rowe told her story via Facebook. “While I’ve been here, I’ve been getting sick,” Rowe said in Facebook video. “It started with throat pain. I thought maybe because it’s colder up here, I’m just catching a cold.” It never developed into a full-on cold, but the throat pain got worse and worse. Rowe said that after about a month, the pain “got to the point where I had extreme throat pain that I couldn’t sleep, to the point where I couldn’t speak.” Knowing that things weren’t going to get better on their own, she went to the campus doctor, who gave her antibiotics. The medicine helped, but the doctors couldn’t figure out exactly what was wrong with her. While all of this was going on, Rowe says she hadn’t been getting along very well with her roommate. According to Rowe, they wouldn’t argue, but she says her roommate would do things to annoy her and to make her feel unwanted, “like if the person was to walk into the room and see me doing work, she’ll turn off the light and just walk out.” Tired of feeling “like a ghost in my own room,” Rowe decided to move out. As she began moving her things to her new room, Rowe says that a few Instagram posts made by her now ex-roommate were brought to her attention. A screenshot of one of the posts allegedly made by Rowe’s ex-roommate is above: Rowe says that these posts explained how her ex-roommate waged a campaign against her that included placing Rowe’s toothbrush in unsanitary areas of the body, spitting in Rowe’s oil, pouring rotten clam dip in Rowe’s beauty products and rubbing used tampons against Rowe’s backpack. In the Facebook video, Rowe shows viewers pictures of a bloodied backpack and what appears to be molded food, alleging that these are screenshots of photos her ex-roommate posted to Instagram. To make matters worse, according to Rowe, after moving out, she was told “the situation is over,” by residence hal