SAN ANTONIO – A Trinity University professor threatened this week is taking his experience and sharing it not only with his students, but his community.
That threat, coming in a form of a tweet with a racial slur.
Although Dr. Simran Singh is not Muslim, but Sikh, he said he's been subjected to hateful messages online before.
The tweet directed at him on Monday showed a threat of violence, which is why he decided to take action.
"I took it seriously," said Singh. "There was racial slur in that. It's pretty ugly so, I thought it was important enough to share it with my communities and let them know that this ugliness is out there and we need to take it seriously."
Singh took a screen shot and shared it on his Facebook and Twitter pages and asked if anyone would consider reporting it.
He got a bigger response than he anticipated and Twitter eventually took the post down.
While Singh didn't actually bring up the issue in class, some of his students, who follow him on social media were horrified to find out what was posted.
"I thought it was horrific that people would send stuff like that to him because he is genuinely the nicest professor here," said Katie Welch, a Trinity University junior. "He's such a great teacher."
"It's terrifying because I grew up Muslim," said freshman Arisha Ali “So I understand how he feels and especially because he is not Muslim. He gets attacks like these all the time and it's a little terrifying to see what people would do."
The hateful tweet was sent out just days before President Donald Trump signed executive orders to strip sanctuary cities of federal funding and to begin work on a border wall.
That's an action, Singh said, which may prompt more racial tension.
"What we're getting from our government is a message that it's okay to mistreat people based on how they look or where they come from or what they believe," Singh said. "If they look different or if they believe something different, it shouldn't matter. That's what we are taught as Americans and so my hope is that we can get back to those values and teach that to our children."