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I'm bringing this up just to clarify to some of the previous posters that Candice Poole is a Caucasian student and a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.

After reading and re-reading this article (and being almost completely thrown off), my guess is that this story is controversial because a Caucasian female student (who also happens to be a member of an HBGLO) was given an award for being the "Blackest" (read: most ghetto) Chi Omega and she's not even a member of the org who gave the award. She just happened to cater the event. I agree with jitterbug13 that the writer must repeat Journalism 101.

Poor chile. :( This is really bad.....

You know, I'm probably going to catch shit from both sides, but f it:

It bothers me when people who aren't into hip-hop/urban culture mock it in an attempt to be either cool or funny. It doesn't matter what color the person is, but misusing the word "ghetto" is a big example of this.

I'm talking about the punk rocker guy who says his jeans are "really ghetto" because they're torn and ratty.

Or the group of editors I dealt with in HS who called one issue "ghetto" because the headlines and articles were in different fonts.

And in this case, the sorority girl who is called ghetto because she either listens to rap music (and the majority of her sisters don't), wears baggy clothes, or has "a lot of black friends".

That's my favorite one too....because I have a lot of black friends, I'm "ghetto".

I'm just saying, I can see where the connection is, and I can see where this award would upset Candace, because the "Black" award went to the most "ghetto" person in the group.

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To clarify, Candice is black.

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I thought it was a Z Phi B who catered the Chi O event and witnessed the award being presented and getting angered...not the Z Phi B WINNING the award.

It would've upset me to be called Black too.

Honestly, I think the stereotype that Black is "ghetto" is seen EVERY DAY. Do you never watch MTV or BET? Everytime I turn it on it's a trashy African American screaming, listening to rap music, having promiscous sex, talking almost exclusively about sex, making jokes about the white race (which you most certainly would know that whites could not make jokes about blacks), etc.

Bill Cosby is one of the few stand-up guys in the Black community. I really admire him.

That good good drow obviously... man she shoulda smacked the person who announced the award and the person who received the award... lmao


nah she did the right thing but man... its gonna be a price to pay for that one.

Are you freaking serious?

what if its the other way around? say someone in a multicultural organization recieves the "most whitest bread" award, what would happen?

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Zeta Phi Beta did not cater the event. There is an on-campus catering service offered to those who use the Kent Student Center's facilities, which is where the ballroom is. Candice, who is a member of Zeta Phi Beta, is a student manager for that catering service and was working during the formal.

I was under the impression that "ghetto" is any kind of ethnic trash other than Anglo or Celtic (that would be "white trash").

For example, Chinatown is "ghetto," unless it's a Chinatown in the suburbs, where homes are like $500,000+ in general. A Toronto girl of Chinese descent was recently quoted in a newspaper saying that she never goes to Chinatown unless she's clubbing (i.e. she'll never go sober).

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Probably some miscommunication...but I know that. Notice I said "A" ZPhiB and not "THE" ZPhiBs catered the event.

Not to argue semantics..but yeah.

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Thank you both for the clarification. As I stated earlier, I was

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reading and re-reading this article

and it threw me off.

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Oh it's definitely not your fault...judging by a lot of posts, the author threw A LOT of people off.

It'd be wrong, too. But, in my experience, I've never heard of a BGLO throwing a satirical "white theme" Redneck Party or Trailer Trash Party! Or do things of this ilk. Not because they're morally superior, I don't think, but because this type of thing has no social traction, which it seemingly does in other contexts.

Well this is, of course, disappointing to read. I have seen pictures of this chapter and know they do have some non-Caucasian members, though I don't recall ever seeing a black girl. Regardless, it does still strike me as ridiculous that no one along the lines of picking "awards" thought - 'maybe not the best idea"...

And the article was VERY confusing!