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.
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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.
But non-stop Black on White violence hunky dory.
Damn the Constitution, Full Speed Ahead!!
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
Dumb idea.
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The way they’ve been playing the last few years, they can’t afford to miss practice.
as a TCU fan I say..keep up the good work OU football..
Cue up the music and prepare for more negro drama.
Its not drunken frat boys America should worry about, its the ridiculously disproportionate response to them.
They need something to get pumped up about be use they suck at football.
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.
A song.
A freaking song.
Given the economics, I’d say that’s as likely as Hillary Clinton making a full confession of Arkancides on Fox News Channel.
Then why can rappers and other blacks say it all day long and 1,000 on Sundays. It is a word.
Even better.
What about people singing sexist songs? Like “Baby Got Back”? Or songs condoning violence against women like “G Thang”?
We Clemson fans will second that.
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.
Here I thought football players were tough. Most are, but these players are not acting like men.
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.
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