Remember that one time when racism went away and we were all happy?

Well, people at Texas A&M University seem to have forgotten our post-racial era in a big way. After an on-campus visit Tuesday, several high school students report that people draped in Confederate flags harassed them and used racial epithets during their visit. The Texas Tribune reports:

About 60 juniors from Uplift Hampton Preparatory were touring the campus, according to state Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas, when two black students were approached by a white woman wearing Confederate flag earrings. West said the white woman showed the students her earrings and asked them what they thought about them. Then a group of "white male and female students" began taunting the students "using the most well-known racial slur that's directed toward African Americans," said West,whose district includes the Uplift Hampton Preparatory campus.

West wasn't there when the incident occurred, but he said he was briefed on it later by A&M System Chancellor John Sharp. A spokeswoman for Uplift Education, which operates the charter school, said West's description was accurate.