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MLK Party Causes Uproar on Texas Campus
AP - My Way News ^ | January 25, 2007 | Jeff Carlton

Posted on 01/25/2007 6:31:46 AM PST by Arec Barrwin

MLK Party Causes Uproar on Texas Campus Email this Story

Jan 25, 5:47 AM (ET)

By JEFF CARLTON

DALLAS (AP) - Authorities at Tarleton State University said they plan to investigate a Martin Luther King Jr. Day party that mocked black stereotypes by featuring fried chicken, malt liquor and faux gang apparel.

"I feel like there is no excuse for this type of ignorance," said Donald Ray Elder, president of the Stephenville school's chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Photographs posted on social networking Web site Facebook.com showed partygoers wearing Afro wigs and fake gold and silver teeth. One photo showed students "mocking how African-Americans do step shows," Elder said. In another picture, a student is dressed as Aunt Jemima and carries a gun.

"That upsets me," Elder said. "That's someone who knows nothing about Dr. King, because Dr. King was totally about nonviolence."

Wanda Mercer, the school's vice president of student life, said an investigation was planned into the Jan. 15 party.

More than 400 students attended a university-sponsored forum Wednesday night that Elder described as "a shaky baby step" in bridging a divide between black and white students on the campus, which had about 400 black students out of 7,800 overall last semester.

Elder said he sensed a racial divide at the forum, with black students sitting on one side of the room and whites on the other.

"It was civil, but it also escalated into a shouting match," he said in a telephone interview afterward.

Some of the students shown in the photos apologized, Elder said.

University President Dennis P. McCabe said the photographs were reprehensible.

"I am personally insulted by these photographs and am disappointed that Tarleton students have demonstrated such insensitivity," he said.

Stephenville is about 60 miles southwest of Fort Worth.


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To: HOTTIEBOY

Good for you.


121 posted on 01/25/2007 10:38:48 AM PST by Plains Drifter (America First, Last, and Always!!!)
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To: Plains Drifter
Another fact that the FBI uncovered is that MLK had a sexual preference for white women.

I imagine that some racists would find that offensive.

122 posted on 01/25/2007 10:49:46 AM PST by trumandogz (Rudy G 2008: The "G" Stands For Gun Grabbing & Gay Lovin.)
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To: ichabod1
I wouldn't call this a racist party. I would call it a protest.

Perhaps, the GOP could have fund raisers of the same theme if Obama gets the GOP nomination.

123 posted on 01/25/2007 10:56:16 AM PST by trumandogz (Rudy G 2008: The "G" Stands For Gun Grabbing & Gay Lovin.)
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To: RetSignman

yes i rember all the nonviolent bullets,nonviolent base ball bats nonviolent rocks and sticks they used,the nonviolent fires in memphis.yes i rember the whole nonviolent movement.


124 posted on 01/25/2007 11:13:51 AM PST by old gringo
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To: Plains Drifter

Do you pick which conspiracy theory to believe?


125 posted on 01/25/2007 11:26:30 AM PST by HOTTIEBOY (Campers laugh at clowns behind closed doors.)
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To: 50sDad
He had a lot of failings, as we all do. But at least he thought you should judge a man on the convictions of his heart, and not the color of his skin.

... and yet he was for affirmative action as it was called back in his day. I say if he truly believed his slogans he would of not supported affirmative action, and neither would his worshipers.

126 posted on 01/25/2007 11:30:57 AM PST by Mark was here (You are guilty of something when you do it, proving your guilt is something else.)
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To: Risha

I could make a rude comment about a type of Irish folk dance, but I will leave it to you imagination.


127 posted on 01/25/2007 12:09:20 PM PST by Rumplemeyer
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To: HOTTIEBOY

You bet, free country!!!


128 posted on 01/25/2007 12:16:30 PM PST by Plains Drifter (America First, Last, and Always!!!)
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To: trumandogz

Some might,so would some black women.


129 posted on 01/25/2007 12:18:18 PM PST by Plains Drifter (America First, Last, and Always!!!)
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To: Arec Barrwin

I am shocked, OUTRAGED, and deeply saddened that these ignorant students could so demean and mock Mr. Spock!

They may send the apology and check...or at least the check, to me at...

130 posted on 01/25/2007 12:32:26 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: Arec Barrwin

Where are the FUBU clothes?


131 posted on 01/25/2007 12:44:26 PM PST by cherokeenation
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To: stm

Those are, quite possibly, the tamest college party photographs I have ever seen. That's probably what has the liberal college officials upset. "Where's the debauchery? Where are the free condoms we give out?"


132 posted on 01/25/2007 1:35:23 PM PST by Rastus
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To: Arec Barrwin

Wow. I just saw those TSG photos.

This...is pretty bad. But my opinion may be slanted due to obvious reasons.


133 posted on 01/25/2007 1:41:24 PM PST by Black Guy who is a Republican
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To: Plains Drifter
Another fact that the FBI uncovered is that MLK had a sexual preference for white women

As one of my white team mates in college told one of our black players....after he had been with a black gal.....Now I know why you prefer white girls...

134 posted on 01/25/2007 1:56:23 PM PST by RVN Airplane Driver ("To be born into freedom is an accident; to die in freedom is an obligation..)
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To: Plains Drifter

The FBI can not "seal" criminal records. So who knows what that fantasy is really all about.


135 posted on 01/25/2007 1:59:58 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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To: Black Guy who is a Republican
This...is pretty bad. But my opinion may be slanted due to obvious reasons.

My friend....I tell everyone that the most difficult position in America is to be in your shoes. A good guy who happens to be black...unfortunately all too rare... Please understand that most of us share that thought..

136 posted on 01/25/2007 2:07:48 PM PST by RVN Airplane Driver ("To be born into freedom is an accident; to die in freedom is an obligation..)
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To: sweetiepiezer

Have a friend who lived in LA and when King came to town he phoned ahead for my friend's white girlfriend to meet him.




Why aren't you going to the media with that info? Surely that's a bombshell, since you have actual names.


137 posted on 01/25/2007 2:21:51 PM PST by kenth (I wish compassionate conservatives were more compassionate to conservatism.)
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To: Arec Barrwin
"In another picture, a student is dressed as Aunt Jemima and carries a gun.

"That upsets me," Elder said. "That's someone who knows nothing about Dr. King, because Dr. King was totally about nonviolence."

You mean Elder would have been OK with the Aunt Jemima costume without the gun???

138 posted on 01/25/2007 8:31:37 PM PST by Redbob
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To: Dallas59
"For all the good King did, towards the last he was a communist and a traitor..."

Not just "toward the end."

Folks' memories are pretty selective; I just put it down to symbolism: King symbolized what a good man could have been.

Like the story of George Washington and the cherry tree.

139 posted on 01/25/2007 8:34:49 PM PST by Redbob
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To: NC28203
In just about very picture that I have seen of Dr. King he was wearing a shirt and tie, and frequently a suit.

In the south of a half century ago, a Black man (then a Negro) wearing a suit and tie was assumed by whites to be a preacher or undertaker, and would generally be treated with a little more respect than would be shown a laborer. Of course, he still had to remember his 'place'.

140 posted on 01/25/2007 9:45:32 PM PST by PAR35
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