Jeebus! Read what these San Jose State students did to their black roommate:

[Are_grits_groceries]

SAN JOSE -- First, his white roommates nicknamed him "Three-fifths," referring to the way the government once counted blacks as just a fraction of a person. When he protested, they dubbed him "Fraction."

Then they outfitted the four-bedroom dormitory suite they shared with a Confederate flag. They locked him in his room. They wrote the "N-word" on a dry-erase board in the living room. They fastened a bicycle lock around his neck and told him they lost the keys, then tried it again a few weeks later.

It may sound like something out of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. But police reports indicate it happened last month in the Obama era to a black student at San Jose State University, a liberal campus boasting statues of Olympic athletes making a black power salute.

Late Wednesday, prosecutors filed misdemeanor hate-crime and battery charges against three of the student's roommates over the alleged hazing, which has sparked anger in the community and on the diverse campus. The men are Logan Beaschler, 18, of Bakersfield; Joseph Bomgardner, 19, of Clovis; and Colin Warren, 18, of Woodacre.

"This is outrageous," said the Rev. Jethroe Moore II, president of the San Jose/Silicon Valley chapter of the NAACP. "This form of bullying cannot be tolerated."

The students were not available for comment and it was unclear late Wednesday whether they had legal representation. They could face penalties ranging from probation to a year in jail if convicted, as well as university discipline.
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http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_24566367/san-jose-state-students-charged-hate-crime

They need to comb the statutes and throw everything in the book at them!
Prank my ass.

[uponit7771]

1. "Logan Beaschler, 18, of Bakersfield"... oh...

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

2. Remeber the Twilight Zone movie...

...where Vic Morrow is transported back to Nazi Germany and finds himself a Jew following a racist rant? Maybe that should happen here. Who has the time machine?

[bravenak]

3. I lived in Frazier park near Bakersfield and I met the worst racists there that I have ever known.

When we read ' Roll of thunder, hear my cry' for school they called me Cassie Girl for the rest of the time I lived there. Along with, nigger, spook, shadow, tar baby, jigaboo, turd, Mac and me, and they liked to do mock lynchings near the creek with me as the star of the show.
When you drove into town there was this huge slab of a Rock in the creek, that KKK spray painted in black on it.
You would think that being in California would chill people out a little bit, but instead the racists stick together and move to smaller towns where people think just like them.
Strangely enough, I moved back in 99 and things had changed quite a bit. Everybody was dressed like a rap video and trying to talk and act like eminem.

This ain't no prank for these folks, it's a way of life.

[HappyMe]

4. I love how it's always a 'prank'.

Fucking little shitheads.

I suppose the parents will be giving tearful testimonials as to what wonderful boys they are. How there must be a mistake because their darling would never do that.

[gollygee]

5. It sounds like that went on for a while before anyone did anything about it

There is a huge racist backlash going on and it turns into behavior like this.

To people who say white people can use the N word and it's just playing games and funny between young people, no. Look at this. The white kids might have thought they were being funny and playing games, but that's not what was happening. It looking like fun to people in the oppressive group doesn't make it fun.