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The NYT reports that after a video was posted on YouTube that appeared to show members of the fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon at University of Oklahoma singing a racist chant, the organization’s board decided “with no mental reservation whatsoever that this chapter needed to be closed immediately.” The video shows a group of young white people in formal wear riding a bus and singing a chant laden with antiblack slurs and at least one reference to lynching. A grinning young man wearing a tuxedo and standing in the aisle of the bus pumps his fist in the air as he chants, while a young woman seated nearby claps. The chant vows that African-Americans will “never” be allowed to join the campus chapter.
The nine-second video was uploaded to YouTube on Sunday by a student group, the Unheard Movement, that first identified the people in it as members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, although the group did not indicate how it obtained the video or when it was filmed. University president, David Boren, said in an emailed statement that the administration was also investigating the video. “I have just been informed of the video, which purports to show students to show students engaging in a racist chant. We are investigating to determine if the video involved OU students. If O.U. students are involved, this behavior will not be tolerated and will be addressed very quickly,” said Boren. “This behavior is reprehensible and contrary to all of our values.” Students marched on the campus of the University of Oklahoma on Monday to protest the video.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2015, @06:08PM
The Aussie here again. I take it that you are a white American male? Would you ever live in a predominantly black area of an American city for a prolonged period of time? I often read white Americans writing that they 'are not racist', but at the same time they would not be willing to live in a black neighborhood. Would not there be less segregated cities in America if more whites lived in blaxk neighborhoods?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2015, @06:27PM
Black neighborhoods are typically poor neighborhoods. Poor neighborhoods typically have higher crime, lower property values, and worse public schools. Even successful minorities (not that minorities are immune to bias) will avoid poor neighborhoods due to the problems associated with them.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2015, @06:27PM
Since predominately black neighborhoods are also predominately poor neighborhoods, you aren't going to see many people voluntarily moving to them, regardless of race.
Go somewhere like hawaii, where admittedly, there are very few blacks, but also where whites aren't even the largest minority, much less a majority, and you see much less racial segregation in housing. Its still segregated by wealth though.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday March 11 2015, @11:26PM
You havn't met hipsters then. Williamsburg was a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood. Now its high priced hipster heaven and mostly white. They even pushed into parts of Bushwick and now Prospect Lefferts Gardens and even encroaching into crown hights, all black areas. My brother lives in Prospect Lefferts Gardens and his GF is a hipster poster child.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2015, @11:30PM
So if whites don't want to live in non-white neighborhoods, they're racists?
And when whites do move into non-white neighborhoods, they're racists?
Is there anywhere where whites aren't racists?
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Thursday March 12 2015, @03:16PM
Yup: All white neighborhoods.
So to solve racism we simply have to make all neighborhoods white. Easy peasy.
(Score: 2) by pnkwarhall on Thursday March 12 2015, @02:09AM
Gentrification [wikipedia.org]
Believe it or not, this is intentional! Hipsters don't just move into "poor neighborhoods". Hipsters chase bohemians (who need/choose to live cheaply), and then Capitalists chase hipsters (who have money to spend)...
Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Thursday March 12 2015, @03:34PM
You said it better.
I used to frequent the budding Williamsburg area before the real hipsters came flooding in. A mutual friend found a bar tucked away that was ran by two girls who were artists. The bar usually saw the artsy crowd and was frequently hosting all sorts of interesting music nights on saturdays. I became friendly with them and we were regulars, one of the girls even made sure we had reserved seats at the head of the bar. Most of the original brick industrial buildings were still standing and housed businesses. It was kind of dingy and most of the bohemian types were artists who rented the industrial buildings to make studios and live in them. Some were even communes where upward of a dozen artists, transients, backpackers or gutter punk types would live for various periods of time. Then slowly the hipsters started pouring in. The commercial building owners saw the opportunity to cash out big time and sold their properties. Now the place is clogged with gross modern (meaning cheap as hell to build) architecture erasing the old dingy character the old Brooklyn neighborhood had. It was sanitized and overpriced. Now the yuppies have taken over and high prices high rises are built on the east river on the old primarily industrial Kent Ave.
(Score: 2) by pnkwarhall on Thursday March 12 2015, @04:31PM
"Disgusting" indeed. But the property values went up!! (So it must be an improvement.)
Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
(Score: 3, Informative) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Wednesday March 11 2015, @06:51PM
I'm mixed - pass as "all-white".
I've lived in all kinds of neighborhoods - next to golf courses, next to housing projects. I've had better neighbors near the project. ;-)
But US is HUGE. I don't know anybody who wants to live in South Side Chicago, or the segregated neighborhoods in Cleveland or Detroit - black or white.
Lot different in San Diego...
You're betting on the pantomime horse...