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Originally posted by MuAZD
We have had a "Ghetto mixer" for many years-you dress up in ghetto clothes-kind of like a pimps and hoes theme but a little different. Before the mixer a couple of our new girls were outside our student center and a member of the campus NAACP saw them and told them that they were offended. We had to right an apology to them to put in the newspaper. I really didnt feel like we did anything offensive, but now we have decided to not have that themed mixer anymore.
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LOL!!! A "Ghetto Mixer" party??? Please tell me more about this! What does this entail??? FUBU wear and drive-by's and and guys you call "my baby's daddy" and food stamps and welfare checks, not to mention smoking crack and drinking a forty on the corner while the music of NWA or Snoop Dogg plays in the background??? Maybe you could learn about it by watching "South Central" or "Boyz in the Hood". What other stereotype did I leave out? Maybe the bar could be a liquor store run by Koreans! I just cannot believe that no one would think that SOMEONE would be offended by this. Now, I don't know your sorority, so forgive me if I am wrong, but I know that I would be offended as an African-American if I saw a bunch of Caucasian women trying to be "ghetto". To a lot of people, living in a ghetto is not by choice, and is definitely not fun. Now, if you actually had a "Ghetto Mixer" in a ghetto-that would be impressive! I would pay to see that!
But thank you so much for sharing that with me...I hope that if you haven't ever been a ghetto, that one day you are able to see what one is really like. The reason being so that you will perhaps understand why someone would think that making light of that situation is offensive.