Ole Miss coed who made monkey noises outside black students’ door fesses up — as dad’s biz comes under fire

An Ole Miss student, Alaina Kunes, apologised after a video showed her making monkey noises and gestures outside an apartment shared by three Black students. She said the behaviour was insensitive and harmful, and that she had apologised to the women involved.

Kunes said she had not met the women before the incident on 6 November and did not know their race, while denying that she intended to target a person of colour. She also said she and her family had faced harassment and death threats after she was identified online. Her family is linked to Wisconsin-based Kunes Auto Group, which has faced earlier complaints over a racial slur on a customer’s service sticker and an apparently racist text from a salesman.