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posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday March 11 2015, @04:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the May-31-1921 dept.

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.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday March 13 2015, @01:01AM

    Have fun with that reductio ad absurdum? You failed at it by the way. The individual is both the smallest and largest entity that may hold a view on anything and the only type of entity that can serve a prison time for crimes committed. Abstractions are fine for debate and coming to general conclusions, they are not fine for the actual solving of problems. That has to happen on an individual level or it will not happen at all.

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