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: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday March 12 2015, @05:37AM
Bit late to the party, ar. It's past my bedtime or I'd play with you some.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday March 12 2015, @07:32AM
Ya know, Buzz, I feel we are kindred souls. I have roots in the Nations. And that is what makes your hardline libertarian position incomprehensible to me. I have patience, however. I can wait till you wake up, and explain it to me. Of course the recent behavior of the Re-constituted Cherokee nation, as regards their former slaves, leaves me less than optimistic. But, explain it to me.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday March 12 2015, @12:07PM
Really have no idea on that. Never looked into the Cherokee side of my ancestry very deep since I'm up to my eyeballs in the Chickasaw bits. I expect they were just bastards like the colonials but I'm not going to apologize for them any more than I'm going to apologize for the white bits of my ancestry. If your grandparents couldn't remember it because they weren't born yet, it's time to get the hell over it.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2015, @02:12PM
> And that is what makes your hardline libertarian position incomprehensible to me.
> I have patience, however. I can wait till you wake up, and explain it to me
I doubt that he can explain it.
Whenever he gets pinned down by his own logic out come the empty slogans like, "I stand by my words," "I make no apologies," and "I have the strength of my convictions." He also tends to start calling people names when he is uncomfortable. And of course accusing people of being an "SJW" is a favorite tactic, it lets him dismiss ideas he dislikes without having to actually refute them. If you are lucky, he'll reveal himself by outright denying an obvious fact. As above when he said racism has nothing to do with culture, because dictionaries. A couple of days back he literally said that being white confers no benefit, tangible or otherwise, in american society. The coup de grace is ultimately blame shifting which boiled down is always: "I'm not racist, society is, so suck it up you whiner."
He is living the unexamined life.