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There are aspects of this story I don't understand. I will elaborate, but first the background.
Four-star recruit Jean Delance decommits from Oklahoma following racist video
Oklahoma football might already be feeling effects of the racial chant that caused a fraternity to be banned from campus.
Four-star offensive line recruit Jean Delance announced Monday he was decommiting from the Sooners and reopening his recruitment.
Delance originally committed to the Sooners in November, but has seen his stock rise in recent months and several more offers from FBS programs have rolled in. Texas and Texas A&M are considered the frontrunners for the Mesquite, Texas product.
It’s no coincidence that Delance’s decommitment for “personal reasons” came a day after a video surfaced that depicted an Oklahoma fraternity participating in a racial chant. That fraternity was banned from campus on Monday amid protests, which included several football players and coach Bob Stoops.
Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf...klahoma-following-racist-video-190902500.html
I can not post the video itself here because a word used violates forum rules, but it is easy to find. The incident involving SAE is detailed here:
Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon: Fraternity Closed After Video of Racist Chant
Sigma Alpha Epsilon's national headquarters closed its chapter at the University of Oklahoma Sunday after a video emerged purportedly showing members of the chapter singing a racist chant.
The video quickly gained visibility online. It was obtained and posted to Twitter by Unheard, which describes itself as "an alliance of black students organized for change within campus administration and atmosphere." The video shows young men on a bus chanting, "There will never be (something) at SAE."
The tweet, directed at OU president David Boren, said "Racism is alive at The University of Oklahoma."
Source: Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon: Fraternity Closed After Video of Racist Chant - ABC News
And here:
University of Oklahoma fraternity closed after racist chant
Put the above into a search engine and it should come up to the story as covered by the Washington Post.
A few points.
I don't blame Delance for his decision. If I were in his position I would probably do the same thing, tell OSU to stuff it and go looking for greener pastures. OSU itself is not blameless here, for just as Penn State did regarding the Sandusky case the Administration of OSU is ultimately responsible for the actions of those it houses. Delance may also be influenced by better offers elsewhere, but still he is justified in his decision.
It is actions of SAE as a fraternity which baffle me. Their homepage at the University of Oklahoma has been taken down, so I had to use the one featured for Oklahoma State. There, the SAE features this as part of their identity statement:
The mission of Sigma Alpha Epsilon is to promote the highest standards of friendship, scholarship, and service for our members based upon the ideals set forth by our Founders and as specifically enunciated in “The True Gentleman.”
Their Mission Statement, or Creed, reads thus:
"The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe."
Source: Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Oklahoma Mu - Sigma Alpha Epsilon - Oklahoma Mu
Yet in the video you see members of SAE chanting a slogan which so obviously promotes both a racist caricature and racism it quickly puts to the lie the entire "True Gentleman" narrative. For those of you who go and watch the video, the actions seen are amazing in their arrogance, ignorance, and sheer stupidity.
Here is what I am having trouble understanding in regard to this incident.
That college students today, having been raised in our hyper-sensitive culture, could believe the expression of such sentiments, even if in jest, would be overlooked. That these same students would promote words such as honor, virtue, and a sense of propriety as a code to live by and then chant racial slurs when they think no one is watching.
That students in any university today, given the dominance of liberalism in the college and university system, would think it acceptable to chant in this manner even if that is what they truly believed.
That given we live in an age where anyone can be recorded on video anywhere at any time, that even if all of the students seen in the video actually believed and felt as they spoke they would be so smug as to think no one would record it and they wouldn't be found out. I mean how stupid could these University level students be?
In my time here as a member I have spoken out against the knee-jerk and predictable response of many liberals to label every comment they don't like as racism, and their propensity to see racism everywhere in everything. But this is different. These SAE kids might as well have marched onto campus grounds and burned a cross. They could hardly have been more blatant in their actions.
Oklahoma University did the right thing in shutting them down. In addition I went to the Oklahoma University Yik Yak page, but couldn't find any commentary from the student body at large.
Four-star recruit Jean Delance decommits from Oklahoma following racist video
Oklahoma football might already be feeling effects of the racial chant that caused a fraternity to be banned from campus.
Four-star offensive line recruit Jean Delance announced Monday he was decommiting from the Sooners and reopening his recruitment.
Delance originally committed to the Sooners in November, but has seen his stock rise in recent months and several more offers from FBS programs have rolled in. Texas and Texas A&M are considered the frontrunners for the Mesquite, Texas product.
It’s no coincidence that Delance’s decommitment for “personal reasons” came a day after a video surfaced that depicted an Oklahoma fraternity participating in a racial chant. That fraternity was banned from campus on Monday amid protests, which included several football players and coach Bob Stoops.
Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf...klahoma-following-racist-video-190902500.html
I can not post the video itself here because a word used violates forum rules, but it is easy to find. The incident involving SAE is detailed here:
Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon: Fraternity Closed After Video of Racist Chant
Sigma Alpha Epsilon's national headquarters closed its chapter at the University of Oklahoma Sunday after a video emerged purportedly showing members of the chapter singing a racist chant.
The video quickly gained visibility online. It was obtained and posted to Twitter by Unheard, which describes itself as "an alliance of black students organized for change within campus administration and atmosphere." The video shows young men on a bus chanting, "There will never be (something) at SAE."
The tweet, directed at OU president David Boren, said "Racism is alive at The University of Oklahoma."
Source: Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon: Fraternity Closed After Video of Racist Chant - ABC News
And here:
University of Oklahoma fraternity closed after racist chant
Put the above into a search engine and it should come up to the story as covered by the Washington Post.
A few points.
I don't blame Delance for his decision. If I were in his position I would probably do the same thing, tell OSU to stuff it and go looking for greener pastures. OSU itself is not blameless here, for just as Penn State did regarding the Sandusky case the Administration of OSU is ultimately responsible for the actions of those it houses. Delance may also be influenced by better offers elsewhere, but still he is justified in his decision.
It is actions of SAE as a fraternity which baffle me. Their homepage at the University of Oklahoma has been taken down, so I had to use the one featured for Oklahoma State. There, the SAE features this as part of their identity statement:
The mission of Sigma Alpha Epsilon is to promote the highest standards of friendship, scholarship, and service for our members based upon the ideals set forth by our Founders and as specifically enunciated in “The True Gentleman.”
Their Mission Statement, or Creed, reads thus:
"The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe."
Source: Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Oklahoma Mu - Sigma Alpha Epsilon - Oklahoma Mu
Yet in the video you see members of SAE chanting a slogan which so obviously promotes both a racist caricature and racism it quickly puts to the lie the entire "True Gentleman" narrative. For those of you who go and watch the video, the actions seen are amazing in their arrogance, ignorance, and sheer stupidity.
Here is what I am having trouble understanding in regard to this incident.
That college students today, having been raised in our hyper-sensitive culture, could believe the expression of such sentiments, even if in jest, would be overlooked. That these same students would promote words such as honor, virtue, and a sense of propriety as a code to live by and then chant racial slurs when they think no one is watching.
That students in any university today, given the dominance of liberalism in the college and university system, would think it acceptable to chant in this manner even if that is what they truly believed.
That given we live in an age where anyone can be recorded on video anywhere at any time, that even if all of the students seen in the video actually believed and felt as they spoke they would be so smug as to think no one would record it and they wouldn't be found out. I mean how stupid could these University level students be?
In my time here as a member I have spoken out against the knee-jerk and predictable response of many liberals to label every comment they don't like as racism, and their propensity to see racism everywhere in everything. But this is different. These SAE kids might as well have marched onto campus grounds and burned a cross. They could hardly have been more blatant in their actions.
Oklahoma University did the right thing in shutting them down. In addition I went to the Oklahoma University Yik Yak page, but couldn't find any commentary from the student body at large.
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