SAE N***er Chant -- There's more to the story... [View all]

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A deeper examination of the sheer joy of Oklahoma students chanting about hanging n*gg*rs from trees

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This weekend, this video was released showing students, both men and women, excitedly chanting this:

“There will never be a n*gg*r in SAE.
There will never be a n*gg*r in SAE.
You can hang him from a tree, but he can never sign with me
There will never be a n*gg*r in SAE.”

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.... In fact, 27 days ago, people on Reddit were talking about this exact same chant, and stating that it was a required chant to enter the SAE fraternity at the University of Texas. Before this controversy at the University of Oklahoma ever existed, here is how it was recounted in Texas,

For SAE context a few buddies of mine told me their favorite song to sing went-

"There will never be a n*gg*r SAE, there will never be a n*gg*r SAE, Abe set 'em free but they'll never pledge with me, there will never be a n*gg*r SAE."

But even before this, SAE had demonstrated a history of racism across the country.

So, what we are talking about here is not some isolated, freestyle racism made up on the go by a group of hateful Mississippi rednecks. This chant has real roots in this fraternity. These are college students, in tuxedos, on their way to corporate America, declaring not only the racial segregation of their fraternity, but their outright hatred for African Americans.

Giddy happiness, by whites, at black pain and misery isn't a new thing. It's old, very old. Seeing these young people, with such fun fervor, talk about "lynching n*gg*rs from trees" has roots. In fact, you'd be hard-pressed to find lynching photos of African Americans without smiling white faces.

The night after their sickening video of their lynching chant was released, a fraternity member defiantly put a Confederate flag in his window—in spite of the reality that Oklahoma was not in the confederacy.

More (& vid)
http://m.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/09/1369591/-A-deeper-examination-of-the-sheer-joy-of-Oklahoma-students-chanting-about-hanging-niggers-from-trees?detail=email