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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 Thursday March 12 2015, @03:24PM
A labor an delivery nurse told me one new mamma was going to name her baby girl 'Clamidia' because she liked the way it sounded. (She did listen to good advice and picked another name)
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday March 12 2015, @03:57PM
My wife was told a similar story (and this was back in the 80s I think) of a black couple who wanted to name their new daughter "Vagina" because they liked the way it sounded. They changed their mind after someone informed them what the word meant....
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2015, @04:13PM
Hooray for racist urban legends!
Betty had just given birth to a daughter, and she was discussing the choice of a name with her roommate, who was equally clueless. Mulling over the possibilities, Betty considered a word that she'd recently heard on the obstetric ward. "Vagina, that be a nice name . . . hmm, I think I'll call her 'Vagina.'" Admittedly a euphonious word, the two women agreed that "Vagina" would indeed be a nice name for a girl.
When the time came to relay the name choice to one of the hospital's personnel, the shocked worker exclaimed, "Uh, you can't name her 'Vagina'!" To which the Mom replied, "I be her mother, and I can name her whatever I wants to!" This prompted the worker to explain just what a vagina was, but the Mom was skeptical. "That ain't a vagina — it's a cootchie!"
Also this: http://www.babynamewizard.com/archives/2009/10/ledasha-legends-and-race-part-one [babynamewizard.com]
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday March 12 2015, @05:54PM
It isn't racist if it's true.
This story is secondhand (thirdhand?), but comes from a former friend of my wife. When he was in the hospital and his girlfriend/wife was having his first son, the couple in the room next door were talking about naming their kid "Vagina". This isn't just something I read somewhere, it's a friend-of-a-friend personal account.
Do you really think it's impossible, out of a few hundred million people in this country, that some people would actually pick this as a name?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2015, @06:06PM
> it's a friend-of-a-friend personal account.
Are you trolling me? Are you honestly not aware that FOAF is practically the mascot of urban legends? [wikipedia.org]
You couldn't have done a better job of proving it isn't true if you had tried.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday March 13 2015, @03:56AM
Well considering I know the guy, I'm not going to call him a liar.