Posted on 08/22/2017 8:23:09 AM PDT by C19fan
The University of Michigan’s Delta Sigma Phi chapter announced Saturday that it canceled a “Nile”-themed party after the president of the school’s Egyptian Student Association criticized the fraternity on social media.
The party urged students to “honor our Egyptian roots and join us on the night of September 1st to celebrate our newly built pyramid” and to “come to [the party] as a mummy, Cleopatra or King Tut,” according to a now-deleted Facebook event page, The Michigan Daily reported.
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“White people have invaded, stolen, erased, and defaced numerous ancient Egyptian artifacts, symbols and temples in attempt to claim one of the greatest civilizations as their own,” she [Egyptian Student Association president Yasmeen Afifi] wrote.
Sorry to break it to you Ms. Afifi but the only reason we know about the Ancient Egyptians is because of "white" people. The conquering Greeks and Macedonians were so impressed by Egyptian culture they went native. [Cleopatra was ethnically Greek]. The Romans went crazy for the Egyptians too. It was those dead white males who deciphered hieroglyphics. It was white males who excavated all the wonder that fill the museums of the world. When Napoleon's army went to Egypt the Sphinx was buried under sand. The conquering Muslims attempted to destroy the pyramids but they soon realized the trouble was not worth the effort. How did such an ignoramus who does not even know her own history get into Big Blue?
Let me add the grave robbers were her own “people”.
My fraternity. Just damn! Delta Eta.
Wow thanks for that history lesson C19fan!
Its why I love Free Republic!!!
Freegards
Sourpusses take all the fun out of college. Toga parties (Figis), Southern Balls (KA), Halloween parties (Delts), Polynesian Luaus, etc.
The ‘Ancient’ Egyptians were bold, innovative civilization builders. They were not the Arabs and muslims of today’s Egypt.........................
The Middle East was once the home of some of the most advanced civilization of their time. We all know how that area turned out after centuries of Arab-Muslim rule.
Maybe they should have a statues complainers don’t like party?
“How did such an ignoramus who does not even know her own history get into Big Blue?”
It’s because there is a War on Whites at our universities. The only thing Whites are good for is paying the bills so that these Anti-American Centers can show Whites that they are nothing special.
Must be cultural appropriation.
What has happened is that anyone who is non-White or non-Christian now has the power to shut down anything a White or Christian does.
The end goal is to eliminate Whites/Christians, after taking all their money.
I stopped going to MLB games when my Grandson got old enough to buy his own ticket.
The goings on during the game are more like a ‘carnival’ atmosphere, with people constantly up and down, tripping over people, spilling their drinks etc.
THEN they started theme night.
You know the only way I will show up at a LGBT or anything similar is in a casket.
I won’t go to a night that specifies a certain college.
I won’t go ..etc...to a union (ANY union)
I won’t go ..etc..to ladies night
I won’t go ..to movie or fireworks or Star Wars or dog night or cat night
So, in effect they have limited me to a possible 5 games out of 81 and I won’t go because of the stated reason (on top).
I have suggested maybe ONE GAME A YEAR, they hold it for BASEBALL FANS, with hot dogs and beer,
NO Racing Presidents/sausages/etc, no wave, no BS of any sort, just a few hours of a BASEBALL GAME for the fans of BASEBALL.
How novel. A Baseball night dedicated to BASEBALL.
Chaldeans/Babylonians - Empire
Medes/Persians - Empire
Assyrians - Empire
Greeks/Macedonians - Empire
Phoenicians/Carthaginians - Empire
Romans - Empire
Arabs/Muslims - Crap....................
In the ancient world, the bold, innovative civilization builders tended to move to where the opportunities were. When Egypt was under the firm rule of the Pharaohs, it made sense for the skilled and intelligent to move to Greece, where they had freedom to innovate and seek their fortune. When Rome was rising, that's where they went. On and on, until in the 18th-20th centuries the world's best came to America.
It’s far more enjoyable to watch youth baseball, football, hockey or soccer, than to pay hundreds to watch semi-literate prima donna millionaires con fans with a 50% effort until playoffs.
The goal of the puritanical, humorless left is to eliminate fun.
Sorry Delta Sigma phi, canceling isn’t good enough. We know what was in your hate-filled racist hearts. A “party” to celebrate your privelege is a hate crime, and you’re going to have to be reprogrammed and bloodied. Then there will be a probationary period and some heavy fines. Sorry, that’s the world we live in now.
Sucks to be you.
My response to little miss offended would be thus:
“Wash the sand out of your vag and mind your own d@mn business.”
And to the frat boys:
“You’re all a bunch of p*ssies. Grow a set.”
But I’m old and grumpy and don’t much care what a bunch of pansies think. LOL
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