The man, who identified himself as Rod Webber of Boston, shouted about a comment Clinton made in the 1990s referring to husband Bill Clinton’s tough-on-crime bill. Some have said her remarks were racially insensitive and Clinton expressed regrets for them this week.

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Webber, who declined to give his age, told reporters Clinton has been disrespectful to African Americans. He interrupted Clinton, but she continued her stump speech about college debt over him as people turned and took videos on their smart phones. Another man with a sign that said “we came hear to heal not to be ‘brought to heel,’” referencing another controversial Clinton comment, was escorted out of the school gym.

Webber was allowed to stay and stopped shouting after reporters and others approached him.

“Hillary Clinton is not the person for the black man,” Webber told reporters.

Raven Barker, a 23-year-old senior, who was nearby when Webber started shouting, said people in the audience were sympathetic to the message but not its delivery. “Black lives do matter but there’s a time and a place to express that,” he said. Asked if it was ironic coming from one of the only white people in the audience, Barker shook his head. “It seems as if he was placed. We’re not stupid.”

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The protests follow a statement of regret issued this week from Clinton over her “super-predators” remark. Ashley Williams, a 23-year-old activist from Charlotte, interrupted Clinton during a private fundraiser in Charleston on Wednesday night. Williams stood and demanded an apology from Clinton for the high incarceration rate for black Americans, and confronted her with the words of a speech Clinton delivered 20 years ago voicing support for the now-debunked theory of "super-predators."

"They are often the kinds of kids that are called 'super-predators,' " Clinton had said in 1996, at the height of anxiety during her husband's administration about high rates of crime and violence. "No conscience, no empathy, we can talk about why they ended up that way, but first we have to bring them to heel."