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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAlabama Sorority Prints T-Shirts with Racist Image
So what else is new?
Here's a pic of this chapter of the sorority from the interwebz:
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Extremely diverse, wouldn't you say?
They claim that they didn't notice the image of a black man eating a watermelon on the t-shirt.
The T-shirts depicted a map of Alabama marked with an array of images including an illustration of a black man holding a slice of watermelon to his mouth in the map's southeast corner. University spokesman Philip Poole said the shirts were ordered as keepsakes for the sorority's spring formal.
"In selecting the T-shirt, we failed to focus on the specific images in the design," Lauren Hammond, president of the sorority's Samford chapter, said in a statement issued through its national headquarters Friday. "We are horrified by our oversight. Had we recognized what the design details depicted, we would never have purchased the shirts."
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/usworld/ap/alabama-university-apologizes-for-t-shirt-with-racist-image/article_1e06361a-07c5-58b7-9477-ed4505646deb.html
"In selecting the T-shirt, we failed to focus on the specific images in the design," Lauren Hammond, president of the sorority's Samford chapter, said in a statement issued through its national headquarters Friday. "We are horrified by our oversight. Had we recognized what the design details depicted, we would never have purchased the shirts."
Here's my question: Why was somebody even selling t-shirts like that in the first place?
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Alabama Sorority Prints T-Shirts with Racist Image (Original Post)
TheDormouse
May 2016
OP
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)1. Your picture is an assortment of graduates...
from a variety of Alabama's finest private schools. Isn't that diversity?
Public school you say?
EL34x4
(2,003 posts)2. The shirt in question
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etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)3. Of course they are claiming they didn't notice the racist image
mwrguy
(3,245 posts)4. Expel them all
Mendocino
(7,480 posts)5. Oh come on,
they're diverse, they let some non-blondes pledge.
TheDormouse
(1,168 posts)6. Maybe I wasn't being fair
Maybe none of the students who don't "look like" the members of the sorority choose to pledge.
But then why wouldn't they want to?
Rex
(65,616 posts)7. Are they flashing gang symbols?
Seriously, what are they doing?