It ain't all that, is it?
Not surprised at all. I hope no one else is. Hey, all these jokers did was exhibit a little insensitivity. Just because horrendous vision of lynchings is still fresh in our memory doesn't mean they should be thrown of campus. I mean, it's not like they killed anybody. Yes, they put on blackface, disrespected our organizations and our entire race. But should the university have backed down in the face of a frivilous lawsuit? By all means! It just involved black people.
These guys, and the particular fraternity chapter that backs them, represent the type of people who would still see us, as a people, brutally put down. I am not one to cry "wolf" every time a white person blinks, but this is unbelievable. As a further slap in our face, the Omega Psi Phi chapter at Auburn will have to see these misfits every day.
People, it is 2002, but if some people could get away with lynching like they could fifty or sixty years ago, there'd be less black men on the street. I guess we should all be happy and smile because all they can do is "make-believe" they can still hang us, and have a great party doing it.
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