They are not racist like Obama is not a muslim. I guess we should take them at their word.
Oldplayer
An old boss of mine spent quite a bit of time working to buy another fraternity's house for the use of his fraternity expanding into a new college and he spent lots of time with lawyers beyond just the real estate issues.
It was SAE headquarters who shut down the chapter and ended their lease of the fraternity house, not OU. And as for branding them as racists and bigots I think they did that to themselves through that video. They didn't need the University's help.
The University of Oklahoma held the lease for the chapter house, serving as the landlords. Any directive to vacate the property, as well as any accommodations that may have been arranged for the vacated members, came from administrators. Alumni from the University of Oklahoma chapter are saddened and heartbroken not only about the incident but about the personal significance of the chapter house as it relates to their memories of their college experience.
On the radio last night a man said that they should certainly lose their fraternity and all that goes with it because “they are racists” and racists should be shunned by society.
I wish I could ask him: Have you ever told a racist joke?
Because if he has told ONE racist joke then he is AS racist as these men who sang ONE racist song.
Singing a stupid racist song does not, necessarily, make a person a KKK-loving racist. It’s stupid, but it’s not a Robert Byrd (D) kind of commitment to a racist lifestyle and/or ideology.
So, I ask: exactly how racist ARE these men compared to the President of the University whom I will wager has either told a racist joke at least once in his life or stood there as a friend of his did so.
(Side note: Their full-time black cook, whom is now unemployed, said that they were the best men he knew and that he is appalled at their treatment. For what it’s worth.)
Some information I haven’t seen on this. Anyone know how many total members SAE had at OU; how many were on that bus, and how many actually participated in the song?
Haven’t seen anything that puts those involved in the context of the total frat membership.
And I agree Boren has looked like a typical lefist totalitarian idiot in his actions. Some punishment was merited, but not his knee-jerk overreaction.
OK.
I find this report hard to believe but Oklahoma is a right wing state so maybe.....
It will be nice to see David Boren with lotsa egg on his face
And they will win. Either a settlement or the lawsuit. Watch and see.
Boren went way off the reservation on this and he deserves to have his ass sued off.
He’s let gay bashing women beating Joe Mixon come back to the team. The only thing that OU is worried about is their precious football and basketball teams and how this will affect recruiting.
They ought to have Boren fired for allowing the foul-mouthed rapper Waka Flocka to perform at the university (Flocka cancelled his show to protest the frat incident). Flocka’s music is filled with the n-word, obscenities, and obscene gestures, yet it is considered appropriate for UO students.
I love to see college administrators squirm; I have little respect for the breed.