Posted on 02/18/2010 1:06:26 PM PST by Steelfish
Outrage Over 'Compton Cookout' at UCSD
Michelle Wayland, Eric Page and Jonathan Lloyd NBCLosAngeles.com
A weekend “ghetto-themed” party thrown by fraternity students to mock Black History Month is being condemned by UC San Diego administrators. The off-campus event, called the “ Compton Cookout,” urged all participants to wear chains, don cheap clothes and speak very loudly. "We will be serving 40's, Kegs of Natty," the invitation read.
Female participants were encouraged to be "ghetto chicks."
The invite read: "For those of you who are unfamiliar with ghetto chicks -- Ghetto chicks usually have gold teeth, start fights and drama, and wear cheap clothes."
Community leaders in LA responded.
"If campus climate is important, a message needs to be sent that this is not acceptable," Chris Strudwick-Turner, vice president of the Los Angeles Urban League, told the LA Times.
Assemblyman Isadore Hall III (D-Compton) said members of the Legislature's black, Latino, Asian Pacific Islander, gay and women's caucuses will gather Thursday outside the Capitol to condemn the party.
UCSD Campus Chancellor Marye Anne Fox e-mailed 29,000 students and 26,000 staff calling the event offensive.
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These people really need to attend some multicultural awareness seminars. “Ghetto chick?” That’s so offensive. The term is “ho.”
If I dress up as a Pimp, how come I can’t bring my ‘Ho.
Liberals have no sense of humor. It wasn’t like they were being asked to come in blackface. And where do you get grillz?
See? This is what happens when all the sane people move out.
Kids today.
Gotta love em’
I guess it would only be okay if it was a black fraternity’s party.
Sounds like a free speech issue
Ghetto Chicks?
who talks like that???
The pejorative used in the ghetto is “bitches” and “ho’s”
Hold getto batman - we’ve ticked off the wack jobs.
BTW, gays and women were invited - fact all those except the liberal D-Compton were.
“Assemblyman Isadore Hall III (D-Compton) said members of the Legislature’s black, Latino, Asian Pacific Islander, gay and women’s caucuses will gather Thursday outside the Capitol to condemn the party.”
They whine and cry about this, yet the Wayans can make a movie called “White Chicks” and no one complains.
Freedom of expression and all that. Leave the kids alone.
....these kinds of black parody parties have been happening on college campuses for a while now...and here’s the interesting part...the 20 somethings that are doing it have been indoctrinated in racial political correctness their entire lives...why are they rejecting the social engineering they have had drummed into them???...could it be that what they SEE coming from the black community negates the indoctrination they HEAR in school??
Wait wait wait. UCSD has 29,000 students and 26,000 staff??
I see another example of why Kalifornia is in the shape it is in.
Thought this was the cafeteria at NBC.
“They whine and cry about this, yet the Wayans can make a movie called “White Chicks” and no one complains.”
...not to mention the black entertainers on BET that ridicule whites.
response: In pre-1960 society outcasts all.
Actually it was an OFF campus party OUT of school hours at a PRIVATE house so the school has no control or liability.
Hilarious. People need to lighten up. Let’s face it, who do most black males look up to more, Clarence Thomas and Obama, or 50 Cent and Snoop Dogg? We all know the answer to that question.
No law against any of that.
But people are “outraged”
There is a law against serving alcohol to those under 21 but nobody cares.
PC is weird.
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