1. The students that were using the racist chant were probably drunk. Modifying Jesus' words a bit: "Let the person that never did something stupid while drunk cast the first stone."
2. The students chanted that there would never be a "Nigger at SAE." This is clearly wrong. I saw a Black SAE frat brother interviewed on CNN.
3. The Black SAE frat brother was shocked that there was racism at an overwhelmingly White fraternity. And, on a related note: There is gambling in Las Vegas.
4. Again, in reference to the Black SAE frat brother: I feel sorry for him. (Not really.) He was insulted by the current SAE frat brothers because of the word "Nigger." There is a good chance that he was also insulted by all Alphas, Omegas, and Kappas (traditional Black fraternities) when they called him an "Oreo."
5. The University is public and is supported by tax payer money. But, they suppressed free speech. This is a clear violation of the First Amendment. President Obama, who was supposedly a Constitutional Law Professor while at the University of Chicago, never mentioned anything about it.
6. The First Amendment is an interesting thing. In fact, aren't all the Amendments simply admissions that the Constitution and it's drafting and ratification were filled with errors?
7. I thought that the First Amendment was to protect vile speech.
8. Whatever happened to the old saying, "Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will never hurt me?" (This is the child's version of the Non-Aggression Principle.)
9. I wonder how those White frat guys feel towards Black people now.
10. I knew a Black woman who was hardcore in her insistence on Black Power. She didn't want to only marry a Black man, she wanted to marry a Black man with dark skin. A really Black man. She eventually married a Japanese guy that could barely speak English. People grow a change. The government is not needed, and typically hurts rather than helps.
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"There is a good chance that he was also insulted by all Alphas, Omegas, and Kappas (traditional Black fraternities) when they called him an "Oreo."
ReplyDeleteHa! So both funny and true.
Except, this isn't an isolated incident. This is a chant that's been passed down in SAE for decades. And really? This entire thing is nonsense. Like, do you actually relish the idea that frat boys would enact repercussions on black people? Do you really think "that's just the way it is" is a good excuse for not fighting racism? Did you really look at the president's history of teaching constitutional law at the most prestigious law institutions in the country and think "yeah, but I probably know more than him"? Are you also an expert on all black people and what they would say in any given situation?
ReplyDeleteThreats, direct or indirect, are not protected speech. Cities can make hanging nooses as decorations illegal, the Secret Service can arrest you for saying you "wish [given politician] was dead", and schools can punish a frat for keeping that chant as a tradition. The first amendment does not say you get to say anything consequence free.