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Originally posted by volgirl2376
My thing is this: This was a Halloween party, and yes these guys made a poor decision to go as the Jackson 5 because they should have known that some would consider it being in blackface, but yet it was not uncommon to see African American men on campus dress up as every white pop band or Bill Clinton (in the day) etc and no problems ever came up because everyone realized it was a costume party.
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I am a student at UT right now and I have never seen this. I assume you graduated quite a while ago because I have been here for awhile and this is not the case, at least it hasn't been in the last four years. In fact a group of African-American males did portray N'sync in a talent competition just a few weeks before this incident occured and they managed to do it WITHOUT painting their faces.
The fact is that these guys knew they were in the wrong because when they were confronted they said, "Don't make this into an Auburn" they had knowledge that this was not the best thing to do. There was also a meeting at the beginning of the semester in which the Dean of Students told ALL members of IFC that this was NOT ACCEPTABLE because of the Auburn incident and they STILL chose to do it. I have no sympathy for them.
And by the way the person who said that KS should handle it and not UT. That did happen. The KS national office has officially suspended their chapter.