Posted on 03/09/2015 5:25:21 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
Sigma Alpha Epsilon's national headquarters closed its chapter at the University of Oklahoma Sunday after a video emerged purportedly showing members of the chapter singing a racist chant.
The video quickly gained visibility online. It was obtained and posted to Twitter by Unheard, which describes itself as "an alliance of Black students organized for change within campus administration and atmosphere," shows young men on a bus chanting "There will never be a n----r at SAE."
The tweet, directed at OU president David Boren, says "Racism is alive at The University of Oklahoma."
Students at the university plan to demonstrate on the Norman, Oklahoma campus at 7:30 a.m. local time. A prayer vigil was held Sunday night.
Chelsea Davis, one of two co-directors of Unheard, said the video was recorded during the weekend. Unheard was begun at the beginning of the semester to demand change, especially relating to diversity issues, Davis said.
"Clearly in that video, that is nothing new. That is nothing that just sparks up overnight. That is a chant that was well known, well versed, and seemed to be okay with everybody that was involved," said Davis, a junior at the university.
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They have given racial animus new life.
Thx guys. You sowed the wind, now reap the whirlwind.
Whee, no free speech allowed.
Sure, they can get the crap beat out of them for being morons, but free speech, dammit.
This is so NOT a 1A issue and I wish people would stop yelling FREE SPEECH! whenever idiots do things like this.
Free speech is fine but sometimes it just proves you are an idiot. The fraternity has now been closed.
Would you hire one of these guys? I sure wouldn’t.
How is it not a First Amendment issue?
“”There will never be a ni**** in SAE.
There will never be a ni**** in SAE.
You can hang him from a tree, but he can never sign with me
There will never be a ni**** in SAE.””
No, I wouldn’t. But you’re still free to be a moron.
Yes you are and we see morons every day. But actions and speech have consequences. I bet their parents are so proud.
I just don’t understand people who think this is funny or that it is acceptable behavior. If it were one of my children, I would be furious.
I totally agree.
How many students will be out ready to demonstrate at 7:30am? I’ll believe that when I see it.
Thank Obama for this. I actually have very few problems with the chant. Race relations have been turned upside down. My mind set today is back in the early 70’s when my sister and I were jumped by a gang of negroes and my uncle was hit over the head with a 2x4 and burned in a barrel by a negro. Seven years ago I was a different person. Now I am neutral. I want nothing to do with negros, although I am not going to publicly chant about it. Apparently SAE doesn’t either. I don’t blame them. I am willing to bet that SAE has nothing in common with negroes and that is fine, because very few negroes have nothing in common with whites. Their speech should be protected. Barrack Hussein Obama, Eric Holder, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are allowed to spew their racist venom with impunity. It time that they get a little dose of the old days and maybe they will become Americas instead of African-Americans.
You’re right, it is not acceptable behavior.
However, it is still legal speech.
Who else do you want to see mauled for disgusting but still free speech? Maybe pornographers or radically militant gays? How about Muslims?
This was the LEAD STORY on the ABC Radio News Update at 8AM.
Sure glad there’s nothing else going on in the world that was more worthy of their attention. /s
>>How is it not a First Amendment issue?
How is it. The burden of proof is on you. What government agency is suppressing their rights under 1A? The last I looked, the national SAEs are not a government agency.
I have not seen the video, but if true these morons have sealed their fate in life.
Punishment enough for moronic behaviour, what I find equally disturbing is that the Frat house was vandalized. Yet the story just glosses over the fact.
It is as if vandalism, which is moronic behaviour, is excusable when retailiating for stupidity of students singing a racist ditty.
We live in a topsy turvy world.
Don’t worry, odds are a Black male will commit a violent crime against at least one of them.
I don’t think anyone has argued it is illegal. No one was arrested but it is morally indefensible, at least to me.
They got what they deserved...
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