Is this party wrong?(MLK)
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By JEFF CARLTON
DALLAS (AP) - Authorities at Tarleton State University said they plan to investigate a Martin Luther King Jr. Day party that mocked black stereotypes by featuring fried chicken, malt liquor and faux gang apparel.
"I feel like there is no excuse for this type of ignorance," said Donald Ray Elder, president of the Stephenville school's chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Photographs posted on social networking Web site Facebook.com showed partygoers wearing Afro wigs and fake gold and silver teeth. One photo showed students "mocking how African-Americans do step shows," Elder said. In another picture, a student is dressed as Aunt Jemima and carries a gun.
"That upsets me," Elder said. "That's someone who knows nothing about Dr. King, because Dr. King was totally about nonviolence."
Wanda Mercer, the school's vice president of student life, said an investigation was planned into the Jan. 15 party.
More than 400 students attended a university-sponsored forum Wednesday night that Elder described as "a shaky baby step" in bridging a divide between black and white students on the campus, which had about 400 black students out of 7,800 overall last semester.
Elder said he sensed a racial divide at the forum, with black students sitting on one side of the room and whites on the other.
"It was civil, but it also escalated into a shouting match," he said in a telephone interview afterward.
Some of the students shown in the photos apologized, Elder said.
University President Dennis P. McCabe said the photographs were reprehensible.
"I am personally insulted by these photographs and am disappointed that Tarleton students have demonstrated such insensitivity," he said.
Stephenville is about 60 miles southwest of Fort Worth.
DALLAS (AP) - Authorities at Tarleton State University said they plan to investigate a Martin Luther King Jr. Day party that mocked black stereotypes by featuring fried chicken, malt liquor and faux gang apparel.
"I feel like there is no excuse for this type of ignorance," said Donald Ray Elder, president of the Stephenville school's chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Photographs posted on social networking Web site Facebook.com showed partygoers wearing Afro wigs and fake gold and silver teeth. One photo showed students "mocking how African-Americans do step shows," Elder said. In another picture, a student is dressed as Aunt Jemima and carries a gun.
"That upsets me," Elder said. "That's someone who knows nothing about Dr. King, because Dr. King was totally about nonviolence."
Wanda Mercer, the school's vice president of student life, said an investigation was planned into the Jan. 15 party.
More than 400 students attended a university-sponsored forum Wednesday night that Elder described as "a shaky baby step" in bridging a divide between black and white students on the campus, which had about 400 black students out of 7,800 overall last semester.
Elder said he sensed a racial divide at the forum, with black students sitting on one side of the room and whites on the other.
"It was civil, but it also escalated into a shouting match," he said in a telephone interview afterward.
Some of the students shown in the photos apologized, Elder said.
University President Dennis P. McCabe said the photographs were reprehensible.
"I am personally insulted by these photographs and am disappointed that Tarleton students have demonstrated such insensitivity," he said.
Stephenville is about 60 miles southwest of Fort Worth.
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Plan to investigate and do what exactly?
naděje umírá poslední
umm prosecute
That would be stupid. They didn't break any laws. If the school wants to carry out some dicisplinary action then fine, but not legal action.
Should I be pissed off at the youth of today thinking that they are tough guys for trying to be what they see in rap videos?
I wonder if the Romans are pissed off at toga parties?
i opened my eyes and said
Dr. King!!!!
and then he said
OOps i thought you were someone else"
Bring it on cause I'm no victim
b nice loves pearl jam like ed vedder loves america
there is a difference between emulating and mocking,romans wore togas dumb-ass,it's not a racially motivated stereo type.how about we have a Canada day,we will eat frogs legs,drink Pabst blue,watch hockey and pretend our I.Q.s are 60.
"I would rather die on my feet than to live on my knees."
Emiliano Zapata
that Elder guy must be a rocket scientist...how did he ever sense a racial divide?
you forgot maple syrup...if you're going to stereotype at least include maple syrup. and it's LaBatt's blue
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
"I would rather die on my feet than to live on my knees."
Emiliano Zapata
damn..you got me.
"I would rather die on my feet than to live on my knees."
Emiliano Zapata
Thanks for dropping that dudes iq for me.
Wow you are getting hip with it. Strange all the rap I used to listen to had the repetitive lines of chicken and the greens they eat. As a white boy I should stay away from that, eh. They have afros, eat chicken, etc.
Not unlike the mocking, copying of the Romans with togas. Sorry dude, PC only flies so far with me.
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no prob - anything i can do to help oot
This is pretty much how I feel. There may be a need of some diologue on the topic of race at this school (and everywhere else), but what can or should you do to partygoers for this? Some were racists and some were just caught up in the moment and did not really give it enough thought. Either way, I don't really see what could come of an "investigation." The student paper editorials should just give them some shit and perhaps even call out the key orgianizers of the stupidity (if there are any) by name and be done with it.
it's not about PC,it's about co-existence through peace and respect.maybe you need to be taught some.
"I would rather die on my feet than to live on my knees."
Emiliano Zapata
theme party? so if they were white,all shaved their heads and had swastikas for decorations that would be a "theme party"? what planet you live on?and your example of fraternity boys is equally ludicrous.
"I would rather die on my feet than to live on my knees."
Emiliano Zapata
if it is off-campus it doesn't matter. it is tasteless...
from my window to yours
Why is it that every post you make is aimed to stir up the righteous so that you can then give your opposing views, which normally border on facist?
It bothered me more that it was set-up as a MLK day party. I could care less if it was a "ghetto" theme, hippie theme or whatever.
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
What fascist post did i make on this thread? I actually didnt even comment on the story.
Learn to read
well, it is a good survey on what college educated individuals think about african americans...
from my window to yours
yes, it would be a very poor theme party and i would say it was just as stupid. But comparing kids to dressing up and having fried chicken and gold teeth is a far cry from people wearing swastikas. Why is the frat party thing ludicrous...i just switched around the stereotype. is it only wrong in one direction? that seems a bit hypocritical. White people can't make fun of black people in a stereotypical manner but it's ok for blacks to mock white people?
i can see that point.
it's a good survey for what those students at that party think about african americans.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0125071mlk1.html
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