Is this party wrong?(MLK)

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  • JamMastaE
    JamMastaE Posts: 444
    chopitdown wrote:
    I think the party was dumb to have but at the same time there are theme parties / costumes all the time. What if a group of black guys dress up as fraternity boys to mock them? Would the same outcry have occured?


    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.
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  • trappedinmyradio
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    mammasan wrote:
    I think it's pretty tasteless to say the least but people are within their rights to have such a party. The school can carry out disicplinary action simply because every school has a a code of conduct that the students have to adhere to . I'm pretty sure such a party would be in violation of that code.

    if it is off-campus it doesn't matter. it is tasteless...
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  • JOEJOEJOE
    JOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,839
    miller8966 wrote:
    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.

    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?
  • blackredyellow
    blackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    chopitdown wrote:
    I think the party was dumb to have but at the same time there are theme parties / costumes all the time. What if a group of black guys dress up as fraternity boys to mock them? Would the same outcry have occured?


    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.
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  • miller8966
    miller8966 Posts: 1,450
    JOEJOEJOE wrote:
    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?

    What fascist post did i make on this thread? I actually didnt even comment on the story.

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  • trappedinmyradio
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    blackredyellow wrote:
    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.

    well, it is a good survey on what college educated individuals think about african americans...
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  • chopitdown
    chopitdown Posts: 2,222
    JamMastaE wrote:
    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.

    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?
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  • chopitdown
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    blackredyellow wrote:
    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.

    i can see that point.
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  • chopitdown
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    trappedinmyradio wrote:
    well, it is a good survey on what college educated individuals think about african americans...

    it's a good survey for what those students at that party think about african americans.
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  • Solat13
    Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    Here are some pics from the party.

    http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0125071mlk1.html
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  • trappedinmyradio
    trappedinmyradio Posts: 1,189
    chopitdown wrote:
    I think the party was dumb to have but at the same time there are theme parties / costumes all the time. What if a group of black guys dress up as fraternity boys to mock them? Would the same outcry have occured?

    i am sure that no one would have said anything...but, the fact is, your scenario didn't occur...so, we should focus on what did occur...
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  • chopitdown
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    trappedinmyradio wrote:
    i am sure that no one would have said anything...but, the fact is, your scenario didn't occur...so, we should focus on what did occur...

    why, we discuss things that didn't occur all the time. How many threads do people talk about what coulda happened? i remember that the draft would be enacted (hypothetically) if the republicans won 2 years ago...and abortion would be illegal that very same day.
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  • trappedinmyradio
    trappedinmyradio Posts: 1,189
    chopitdown wrote:
    why, we discuss things that didn't occur all the time. How many threads do people talk about what coulda happened? i remember that the draft would be enacted (hypothetically) if the republicans won 2 years ago...and abortion would be illegal that very same day.

    goodness, give me a break...the racial double standard has been beaten down the drain...remember michael richards?

    there is a double standard...it's a fact...it doesn't make either situation right.

    well, it's okay because the Qs had a frat boy party...they chloroformed a bunch of girls and had sex with them...but they didn't move in and out very much because frat boys have little dicks...then the partygoers wrote "pussy drinker" and "slacker balls" all over the passed out girls with permanent black marker.

    it's like you're trying to say that one cancels out the other. no, both are wrong.
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  • JOEJOEJOE
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    miller8966 wrote:
    What fascist post did i make on this thread? I actually didnt even comment on the story.

    Learn to read

    I was referring to most of your other threads.....you like to bait people.

    You are right......so please share your wisdom on the matter.
  • chopitdown
    chopitdown Posts: 2,222
    trappedinmyradio wrote:
    goodness, give me a break...the racial double standard has been beaten down the drain...remember michael richards?

    it's like you're trying to say that one cancels out the other. no, both are wrong.

    yep i remember that thread. They are both wrong. I just was feelin' a little feisty...that's got to be allowed sometimes.
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  • JamMastaE
    JamMastaE Posts: 444
    chopitdown wrote:
    White people can't make fun of black people in a stereotypical manner but it's ok for blacks to mock white people?


    i never said that,2 wrongs never = a right.but if I'm a..say black student of this college and see or hear of this I'm very mad.I'm in this college trying to better my life and fight this stereo-type that the media likes to perpetuate.now it's not bad enough i face a racially biased system,police,job market,i can't even find peace in a place of "higher learning",i gotta deal with dick head,racist white boys throwing a party depicting a black image that most black people despise.fuck that!!!!!!!
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  • trappedinmyradio
    trappedinmyradio Posts: 1,189
    chopitdown wrote:
    yep i remember that thread. They are both wrong. I just was feelin' a little feisty...that's got to be allowed sometimes.

    true...feist away.
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  • miller8966
    miller8966 Posts: 1,450
    JOEJOEJOE wrote:
    I was referring to most of your other threads.....you like to bait people.

    You are right......so please share your wisdom on the matter.

    I have no wisdom on this matter. I just thought it was an interesting story that i wanted to share with the train.
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  • enharmonic
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    America, 2007...heads still firmly inserted up asses.
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  • Abookamongstthemany
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    Solat13 wrote:
    Here are some pics from the party.

    http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0125071mlk1.html

    What a bunch of dumbasses.
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