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The racist chant that a group of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity members sang on a bus this month was brought to the University of Oklahoma four years ago, after members learned it at an annual national SAE leadership event, university officials said Friday.
The university found that the chant which includes racial slurs against African Americans and a lynching reference migrated to Oklahoma and had become part of the institutionalized culture of the chapter and its pledging process. University officials implied that the chant on the bus, which carried partygoers to SAE Founders Day festivities on March 7, was not an isolated event and instead was part of the local chapters recent traditions.
The universitys report also said that as part of the chapters typical recruitment process, a dozen high school students had been invited to the event on March 7 and had joined fraternity members on the bus, where the chant erupted. Many of the students were drinking before the event, the report claims.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/03/27/ou-investigation-sae-members-learned-racist-chant-at-national-leadership-event/
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)we unfailingly referred to them as Same Assholes Everywhere. Apparently we were right.
underpants
(182,992 posts)According to the documentary highlighted on The Daily Show this week
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Haven't seen many of the "the frat boys are the only victims" folks around this discussion today
Shoonra
(523 posts)The media is making much of an SAE chant that they won't accept African-Americans as members -- I am sure not many black students cry themselves to sleep over not getting into SAE. And the chant was caught at just one chapter house.
But the media is STILL NEGLECTING the many reports of ORGANIZED sexual aggression and exploitation by SAE members - all over the country. The college girls assaulted, degraded, and traumatized by this are numerous and the damage they suffer is long-lasting.
Racial snobbery is wicked but not a crime. Statutory and forcible rape is.
cali
(114,904 posts)and yes, this is systemic racism and symbolic of something that is evil and widespread.
No one is saying sexual assault isn't important. Why don't you post some of those stories?