Fraternity suspended after racial slur incident at Mizzou

[pstokely]

Source: Kansas City Star

The latest trouble began, according to MU’s Legion of Black Collegians student organization, when a group of white students hurled racial slurs at two black students as they crossed paths in front of a fraternity house late Tuesday. That incident drew a crowd, police and allegedly more racial slurs shouted from the windows of the fraternity house.

The fraternity, Delta Upsilon, was placed on emergency suspension Wednesday by its international governing body as fraternity and university officials sought to learn exactly what happened.

“Quite frankly, we are sick of this,” the Legion of Black Collegians said in a statement. “Any student that selects to intentionally use hate speech on a campus that pushes the morals of ‘inclusivity’ and ‘diversity’ does not belong, and their presence continues to foster the apparent dichotomy amongst black and white students. ... Enough is enough.”

Late Wednesday afternoon, a town hall meeting hosted by the Legion of Black Collegians at the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center was closed to media but appeared to be well attended by both black and white students.


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[oasis]

1. Trumpism has made this kind of behavior normal and acceptable

in the minds of the clueless.

[shenmue]

2. Yeah

[atreides1]

4. This started before Trump.

On June 25, 2013, the United States Supreme Court held that it is unconstitutional to use the coverage formula in Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act to determine which jurisdictions are subject to the preclearance requirement of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, Shelby County v. Holder, 133 S. Ct. 2612 (2013). The Supreme Court did not rule on the constitutionality of Section 5 itself. The effect of the Shelby County decision is that the jurisdictions identified by the coverage formula in Section 4(b) no longer need to seek preclearance for the new voting changes, unless they are covered by a separate court order entered under Section 3(c) of the Voting Rights Act.

And Roberts made this statement:

“Our country has changed,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote for the majority. “While any racial discrimination in voting is too much, Congress must ensure that the legislation it passes to remedy that problem speaks to current condition."

Three years later, and the "current conditions" show that racial discrimination is pretty much the same as it was before, it was just hiding under a rock!

[HenryJ]

7. It seems to me it's the other way around.

It was already like that in some circles, and Trump tapped into it.

[loyalsister]

8. This is Trump's ready made audience

It's the people who resented the election of Obama who were primed for Trump's rhetoric. In 2010 a couple of students placed rows of cotton on the lawn of the black culture center. It was no coincidence that it happened in February.

There is nothing new about frat boys claiming superiority and want to to take over the world. Here is what one of the suspended wrote. It's a treat, and frighteningly mainstream and I have even come across such sentiments here.

23 Ways To Make Mizzou Great Again

http://totalfratmove.com/23-ways-to-make-mizzou-great-again/?utm_medium=short&utm_source=Twitter

[loyalsister]

3. It was so much worse than that

That fraternity also decorated their house with a sign "build the wall."

On top of that, the police confronted the black students with their hands by or on their guns. So sick of this racism and police standing by at every turn seemingly hoping to kill someone.

It requires executive directors to step in and it is doubtful that these individual young men will ever admit that their is something wrong with their bigotry - because free speech.

[ProfessorGAC]

5. This Is So Distressing, Ain't It?

19 year olds with this level of status quo worship? Worse yet, is that people with this mindset seem to have it based in a belief that they have all the answers, that they have it all figured out!
How many people have every figured out much of anything at 19?
And, when they actually do get older, they have nowhere to go but reactionary. They're essentially there now.

[loyalsister]

6. I think they learned it

from older family and peers. Fraternities rely heavily on tradition and learning from forebears in an insular environment. I don't know that I would label it status quo. In many case, they specifically want to maintain white supremacy for the future.

I think this is happening because there is implied permission. Most white people are content as long as their boats don't get rocked. I heard a student talk about an incidence where some white students told her that she's not like those other black people. When she pointed out that it was racist, they responded with talk about their hurt feelings.

Those kinds of dynamics and stories from people of all ages. I think it's more defensiveness than arrogance.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Well, To Be Fair. . .

. . .to them, white supremacy is the status quo. So, we're agreeing completely, just using different terms.

The only thing i would point out further, is that it's possible to be both defensive and arrogant. So, while you say it's more defensiveness, i would counter that it is both, and lots of both.

[loyalsister]

10. Fair point

I guess when I think of status quo it brings to mind something more comprehensive than white supremacy. These are youth whose actual status quo is having a black president. I'm not sure if they want to return to the days of lynching or if they have something else in mind.

I guess I see the defensiveness as more pervasive and well accepted. So many people will reject arrogant in-your-face racism yet comfort white people whose feelings were hurt when someone pointed out their racist behaviors. Never mind how that behavior affected someone else.