I agree that in this case, sensativity training is a waste. If the University's administration feeling like you shouldn't be there anymore is the result of you doing something and you can't come to the conclusion that maybe you shouldn't do that... well you're just pretty thick. The taxpayers' money is spent better elsewhere.
These threads are always pretty predictable though. First, we always have the predictable reaction from liberals (who are usually pro-free speech when it makes them feel good) that these guys should be banned from campus, throw 'em in jail and lock away the key... (screw the constitution).
Then there are those that say, yeah, it was wrong, but stupidity is an American right. It's a public institution. The school can't do anything -- and shouldn't. It's all up to the private organization that governs this group.
There's also a third group that debates whether anyone should actually be getting bent out of shape over blackface. They seem to feel that it's 2004 and it's high time that we stopped walking on eggshells in regards to racial 'sensativity'.
Those are pretty much the battle lines... I've never seen anyone agree with someone from another group... We have the same conversation every couple of weeks or so... Y'all can check back to a previous blackface incident if you care what I think
In regards to this thread, it's 7 pages of people repeating themselves for the umpteenth time.
As far as the whole Compton debate, I'd just like to say that rap music and black cultural icons in America have done waaay more to villify that area than any news media organization could ever do. Average folks around the US don't watch CNN, but they do watch BET, MTV, etc... That's where they'll form their opinions about Compton.