Samford University Apologizes Over Sorority's T-Shirt With Racist Imagery

[Judi Lynn]

Source: NBC News

Samford University Apologizes Over Sorority's T-Shirt With Racist Imagery

May 14 2016, 3:09 pm ET
by Elizabeth Chuck

An Alabama university has issued an apology after one of its sororities printed T-shirts with racist connotations that "repulsed" the school's president.

The shirts were designed for the Alpha Delta Pi formal last month at Samford University in suburban Birmingham and depict a map of the state of Alabama containing several scenes — including a black man eating watermelon and a slave picking cotton. University officials said they rejected the design, but the shirts were produced anyway.

"Samford University apologizes for the offensive image that appeared on T-shirts," the school said in a statement Friday. "This is completely inconsistent with the university's mission and values. We are addressing the issue with our Alpha Delta Pi chapter and the international organization and with the vendor who produced the shirt."

The sorority also apologized, and the chapter president told NBC affiliate WVTM the sorority is "horrified" by the oversight.


Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/samford-university-apologizes-over-sorority-s-t-shirt-racist-imagery-n574131

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A shirt designed for the Alpha Delta Pi sorority at Samford University, includes imagery of an
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[Laurian]

1. Oversight?

How the hell could this be the result of an oversight? It's blatant as hell.

[Igel]

3. Quick, and without going back to the image.

What are the other two activities shown, and what are the races of the men (they must be) engaged in them?

It's all equally blatant as hell until you notice them. Then those you notice are really as blatant as hell, but the others ... Um ...

I know the activities, but for the life of me, without a close-up image or examining the article itself I have no idea what the two other men's race is. Perhaps there's some racist association with those actitivies, but if so I don't know them.

[a la izquierda]

2. I had a job interview there.

Needless to say, I'm happy I didn't get it. For 100 million reasons.

[jpak]

4. Old Times There Are Not Forgotten - Trump '16

[longship]

5. What is their minority student percentage?

My guess. Zero!

[Judi Lynn]

6. Alabama sorority under fire for racist t-shirt depicting black man eating watermelon

Alabama sorority under fire for racist t-shirt depicting black man eating watermelon

by Associated Press | May 14, 2016 at 7:07 AM


IRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A sorority president at an Alabama university blames an “oversight” for her chapter’s decision to order T-shirts with an image of a black man eating watermelon.

Samford University officials publicly apologized Friday for the offending shirts printed as keepsakes for the spring formal of Alpha Delta Pi, which could face disciplinary action. The shirts depict a map of Alabama marked with various images — including an illustration of a black man holding a big slice of watermelon.

Lauren Hammond, the sorority’s Samford chapter president, said in a statement that “we failed to focus on the specific images in the design. We are horrified by our oversight.”

Hammond’s statement said sorority members were immediately told not to wear the shirts, which she said were being collected so they could be destroyed.

http://thegrio.com/2016/05/14/alabama-sorority-under-fire-for-racist-t-shirt-depicting-black-man-eating-watermelon/

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[Blandocyte]

7. In Kroger as 2 African American women talked about the watermelons there and what they liked

and felt very uncomfortable. Still procssing the implications of that.