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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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To: Jagdgewehr

I remember when people knew what “PC” means.


61 posted on 03/12/2015 7:26:45 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: semaj

There were no insults in my post. I simply responded to your own words.


62 posted on 03/12/2015 7:33:57 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: skeeter

“The very foundation of our system holds that all are equal, in God’s eyes and under the law.”


Equality under the law seems to be a thing of the past.

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63 posted on 03/12/2015 7:40:50 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: skeeter
"In short you aren't willing to hold the black community at large to the same moral standard you have for yourself. Perhaps you do not believe they are capable."

Projecting your assumptions onto others concerning their beliefs is not very polite.

64 posted on 03/12/2015 8:13:32 PM PDT by semaj
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To: RichInOC

38-35


65 posted on 03/12/2015 8:33:29 PM PDT by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: combat_boots

Oops. SB ‘its’


66 posted on 03/12/2015 11:06:53 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: Zakeet
"Let's start gangs and shoot each other and attack cops then maybe the media will like us. #CNNHatesMe," Coulson tweeted.

He's got a good point, imo.

67 posted on 03/13/2015 1:11:17 AM PDT by Musket (It's very simple:<i>your quoted text pasted here</i><p> produces Quoted Italic with paragraph break)
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To: Zakeet

Sigh - an activist football team with a aggregate IQ of 37.


68 posted on 03/13/2015 3:41:10 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Cen-Tejas
Where do we stop?

It stops when enough of us tell the perpetually-offended to go to hell. It stops when we tell them "No, you do not have the right to demand that anyone who says something which offends you needs to be crushed". Enough.

69 posted on 03/13/2015 5:19:20 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: PapaBear3625

Agreed!


70 posted on 03/13/2015 6:57:01 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
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