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Oklahoma football team seeks punishment for racist video
Reuters ^ | March 12, 2015 | Heide Brandes

Posted on 03/12/2015 2:40:34 PM PDT by Zakeet

The University of Oklahoma's renowned football team has suspended practice for a week in protest against a racist video linked to a fraternity and called for punishment of its leadership, team members said on Thursday.

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"It is our passionately expressed desire as members of the football team for the leadership of SAE to be expelled, suspended or otherwise disciplined severely," a statement from the football team said, adding that leaders of the fraternity helped foster a culture of intolerance.

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The football team, with the support of its coach, said it will hold a demonstration over the video during normal practice time on Thursday.

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The university ... will create the post of vice president of diversity to help prevent another flare-up of racial tensions, the school said on Thursday.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: football; oklahoma; racism; sae
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We need to suspend practice for a week and hire a diversity officer in order to try to recover from the deep emotional damage inflicted by some drunken SAE's.

1 posted on 03/12/2015 2:40:34 PM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

But non-stop Black on White violence hunky dory.


2 posted on 03/12/2015 2:43:03 PM PDT by petercooper ("How To Destroy The Country In 6 Short Years" by Barack Obama & the Democrats)
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To: Zakeet

Damn the Constitution, Full Speed Ahead!!


3 posted on 03/12/2015 2:43:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: Zakeet

There is growing story on ESPN Outside the line Barry Switzer called couple of football player in N word everbody selling the stories to ESPN Outsdie the line inteviewers


4 posted on 03/12/2015 2:43:47 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: Zakeet

Dumb idea.

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5 posted on 03/12/2015 2:45:13 PM PDT by Mears (To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."Voltaire))
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To: Zakeet

The way they’ve been playing the last few years, they can’t afford to miss practice.


6 posted on 03/12/2015 2:46:36 PM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: Zakeet

as a TCU fan I say..keep up the good work OU football..


7 posted on 03/12/2015 2:47:06 PM PDT by BerniesFriend (Sarah Palin-"Lord knows she's attractive" says bitter Andrea Mitchell and the rest of the MSM)
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To: Zakeet

Cue up the music and prepare for more negro drama.


8 posted on 03/12/2015 2:48:01 PM PDT by exPBRrat
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To: Zakeet

Its not drunken frat boys America should worry about, its the ridiculously disproportionate response to them.


9 posted on 03/12/2015 2:49:18 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Zakeet

They need something to get pumped up about be use they suck at football.


11 posted on 03/12/2015 2:57:48 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Zakeet

Actually it would be best if all these major universities stopped playing football so that the fiction that the players are actual students can end.


12 posted on 03/12/2015 2:58:17 PM PDT by allendale
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To: Zakeet

A song.

A freaking song.


13 posted on 03/12/2015 2:58:49 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: allendale

Given the economics, I’d say that’s as likely as Hillary Clinton making a full confession of Arkancides on Fox News Channel.


14 posted on 03/12/2015 2:59:46 PM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: Zakeet

Then why can rappers and other blacks say it all day long and 1,000 on Sundays. It is a word.


15 posted on 03/12/2015 3:00:15 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: skeeter

Even better.

What about people singing sexist songs? Like “Baby Got Back”? Or songs condoning violence against women like “G Thang”?


16 posted on 03/12/2015 3:01:11 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

We Clemson fans will second that.


17 posted on 03/12/2015 3:01:58 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: Zakeet

Somebody needs to tell these “children” to grow up. The Dead Horse has been turned into glue, so there’s really no point in continuing to beat on it.


18 posted on 03/12/2015 3:02:33 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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Here I thought football players were tough. Most are, but these players are not acting like men.


19 posted on 03/12/2015 3:02:33 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Zakeet

The complaints regarding the use of the term N*gger are overblown. It is an insult not generally used by polite people. Its use merely calls for a verbal comment along the lines ‘we don’t say that.’ Any punishment beyond a verbal comment has a malicious motive arising out of resentment or hatred.


20 posted on 03/12/2015 3:03:21 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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