Electric Aunt Jemima
Goddess of Love
Khaki Maple Buckwheats
Frizzle on the stove
Queen of my heart
Please hear my plea
Electric Aunt Jemima
Cook a bunch for me.
- Frank Zappa
Posted on 11/01/2002 12:53:53 AM PST by ninonitti
A University of Tennessee fraternity has been suspended because of an incident last week in which white members painted their faces to look like the black pop group The Jackson Five.
The national office of Kappa Sigma has suspended its UT chapter, which means the fraternity "no longer has standing as a registered student organization and is suspended from participating in university activities, such as Homecoming," according to a statement issued Wednesday by UT Vice President and Provost Loren Crabtree.
Fraternity members couldn't be reached for comment Wednesday, but Crabtree said the national office was cooperating in an ongoing investigation.
A number of black students complained to campus officials last week after a group of fraternity members allegedly walked from their fraternity house to a party on the Cumberland Avenue Strip dressed as the Jackson siblings, according to UT's account.
Even if the national Kappa Sigma organization reinstates the UT Lambda chapter, UT might not choose to recognize the group, according to Crabtree.
"We will require the leaders and members of Kappa Sigma to demonstrate a commitment to uphold our expectations for civility, ethnic diversity and racial harmony," Crabtree said.
Crabtree indicated that individual students involved in the incident might face university sanctions once the investigation is concluded.
Crabtree said the incident was "particularly distressing to the members of the (UT) administration because all fraternities and sororities participated in a workshop a year ago to address a similar situation at another institution."
Crabtree also pointed out measures that UT has taken over the past few months to widen the African and African-American Studies program and a planned semester-long program beginning in January to "celebrate Africa's cultural, entertainment and educational contributions to non-African cultures around the world."
A training program on race and diversity will begin next spring, and a special session covering the same topics will be added to the summer orientation program for new students, Crabtree said.
Could it be that UT is being niggardly in it's funding of the study of these ethnic groups??? I'm sure Ms Crabtree would love to hear some diverse comments:lcrabtr1@utk.edu
Apparently, it's funny when a black person paints his face white but it's racist if a white person puts on black makeup.
Electric Aunt Jemima
Goddess of Love
Khaki Maple Buckwheats
Frizzle on the stove
Queen of my heart
Please hear my plea
Electric Aunt Jemima
Cook a bunch for me.
- Frank Zappa
Last night, I attended a middle school football game where same of the younger kids in attendance were in costume. At least two young black kids from the community had painted their faces white as ghosts, and left the makeup on without the full costume. I probably should have been offended, but I was too busy watching the kids enjoy themselves. This attitide that the University is showing does not reflect the one of the community that surrounds it. It is just plain silly.
Sheesh...............like that would ever happen............................
........blacks posing as the Osmond Brothers.
Drunk? Sounds like you've got prejudices of your own!
P.s. Is it racist is a black shows up at a party in blackface?
That's it exactly the PC crowd is amused by reverse minstrel shows but horrified at the reverse.
It's like the old story about some liberal commenting on the passing of a black friend: "I never noticed what color his skin was" was his reply to a question about the deceased.
It's this lunancy that fosters affirmative action with it's emphasis upon race above all else at the expense of quality of the individual.
Little did I know at the time that I was supposed to express my outrage that this young black man would paint his face white.
(I'm obviously so out of the loop that I didn't know that this wasn't "PC". Can I still register my complaint with Al Sharpton? Will he rally to my defense to help combat this terrible racial insensitivity?)
You WILL submit to the thought police....and you will like it.
Lambda?
Hey, are these guys gay?
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