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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: 4, Insightful) by Ezber Bozmak on Thursday March 12 2015, @04:48AM
Now I know that racism is only ever about the color of a person's skin and not their culture
If you didn't know that before, you're a fool. Did the spelling of the word not give it away? How about the dictionary definition?
Thank you for teaching me the truth. Race is purely biological. [vox.com] That's why those names aren't black - they are names, how they can have biology? The Oxford English Dictionary really makes my error clear when it says that race is "a group of people sharing the same culture, history, language, etc" [oxforddictionaries.com]
You should probably try getting used to the rules; they're not going to change for you.
Preach it brother! When people refer to America as a melting pot, they mean only for the melting of white chocolate. That's why American English would never incorporate words from other languages. [wikipedia.org]
And thanks for the tip about avoiding the name Steve in South Africa. If only your sociological expertise had been there to save another fool from the error of his name. [wikipedia.org]