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Originally Posted by ladygreek
Again this is not something new as even mentioned in the story. What made it "newsworthy" now? Because pics were posted on the internet? Guess what, other pics such as these have also been posted on the Net for a long time.
So the Nashville station showed those pics (which were from Texas Southern.) The story mentions ONE person being outted and more to come--will they then do a follow up story on that and who was their source?
They interviewed two female students--neither of whom are AKAs.
If nothing else, this story is inflammatory and unnecessary journalism. That's why am I defensive, because I fear this story will generate hate crimes. And then it will be newsworthy.  |
Ladygreek, the sexual politics of this situation as depicted in the news story, placed on the tableux of the typically conservative and even homophobic context of many HBCUs, was one of the things that made me post this,albeit in a subtle manner, because it brings to the fore all kinds of issues. (There was a situation at Morehouse a few years ago that pricked some allied concerns.)
It's not that this is a "new" situation, no more than what DZ HQ was trying to do at DePauw, or the various instances of white Greeks putting on blackface at parties or other things mocking certain black stereotypes, as if it's a new phenomenon. It's more a case of the convergence of the media with the current cultural context which is more "PC" on the one hand and in which things that are exposed have a taboo character to it so that there may be consequences for those involved. This is the complex, ambivalent social context which Greeks--black,white,multicultural,etc.--have to navigate.