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Since I'm a member of Pi kappa Alpha I'll jump in on this one. A couple of posters here have already made important points. Specifically: 1) a good lawyer can ensure that no individual or group is punished in any way for wearing blackface; and 2) the stupidity index had to be way up in the red zone when this was allowed to happen.
Any campus with high numbers of blacks, whites and other groups are inevitably going to have occasions where they bump up against each other culturally. Usually there's no evil intent, as I assume is the case here. The other side of the coin is that campuses with large numbers of different people are exciting, dynamic, fun and provide a great educational atmosphere.
Overt deliberate rascist provocation has no place in a decent society, but my guess is that this incident doesn't rise to that level. Blackface is not illegal, but it is especially stupid.
Russellwarshay has it right: our National will probably come in and review the membership; they'll try to weed out the idiots and explain the simple facts of life to the ones who stay. I hope that Georgia State handles this a lot better than Auburn did a couple years ago when the Betas and the Delta Sigs had the same problem.
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