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A Black Girl's History with Southern Frat Racism
Posted on 3/21/15 at 10:26 pm
Posted on 3/21/15 at 10:26 pm
Link to article
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I was one of few black students at a small college in Kentucky in the early 2000s. Every day I was reminded just how unwelcome I was there.
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When footage of the University of Oklahoma’s SAE fraternity singing a disgustingly racist chant — which included the phrase “there will never be a **** in SAE” — emerged a couple weeks ago, I felt many things, but surprised wasn’t one of them. The video may have been taken at a private fraternity event on a bus, but I know firsthand that pervasive racism in white Greek organizations is not a new thing. I spent four years at a mostly white college in Kentucky, where daily acts of racism occurred in front of my face. So after seeing the way that some Southern white college students act in the presence of black people, it did not surprise me at all that they’d sing a fun little song about lynching ****s when they think we can’t hear them.
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The apex of the campus, the building proudly displayed in their marketing materials, is a stark white building with big, stately columns called Old Morrison. There’s no sweet way to say that Old Morrison looked like the Big House on an antebellum plantation, so I won’t try to be poetic about it. So: It looks like massa’s house, and paired with all the heavy limbed trees and the blazing pink blooming trees and the bluest sky you’ve ever seen in your life arching forever overhead and all the melodic country accents traveling along with you as you walk through the courtyard, it sometimes feels like you’re walking through a scene in Gone With the Wind. And we all know what that was like for black folks. (Spoiler: slaves. We were slaves.)
This post was edited on 3/21/15 at 10:33 pm
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Posted on 3/21/15 at 10:27 pm to Patron Saint
Ain't nobody got time for a link without some preview for interests. 
Posted on 3/21/15 at 10:30 pm to Patron Saint
You waste this on a 10:30 Saturday night crew?
Posted on 3/21/15 at 10:33 pm to Patron Saint
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I remember the stares, people silently but obviously wondering why we were there. In a sea of skinny white girls and burly blond boys, three thick black women definitely stuck out like flies in buttermilk. I was instantly uncomfortable — the flags had been removed from the windows, out of public view, but many of the KA brothers still had their flags displayed in their rooms. The flags seemed oddly glad to see me and the fear on my face. You scared, n-word? You should be scared. Somebody oughta put you in your place. Maybe tonight.
We did not stay long. We made our grand exit after seeing a mountainous white boy walking toward us, cheeks flushed raspberry red, blond hair aflame, full-size Confederate flag draped around his shoulders. His face and eyes were blank; he seemed asleep on his feet, stare transfixed, walking a slow, deliberate pace. We moved out of the way as he approached and he moved past us, continuing his trek. We left immediately after and I felt like I’d just survived something, like I’d escaped rather than walked calmly out the front door. As we walked back to our dorm, the sound of rap music snaked through their open windows behind us, barely concealing the taunting of the flags on the walls. Look like we got ourselves some runaways! Don’t stop walkin’ till you get to Africa, n-word!
I love how she just assumes they are racist and do not want her even though she made zero effort to talk to them or get to know them.
The perpetually butthurt will always find something though.
This post was edited on 3/21/15 at 10:53 pm
Posted on 3/21/15 at 10:34 pm to Patron Saint
It's that bitches fault for not visiting the campus once before deciding to spend 4 years of her life there. Boo fricking hoo
Posted on 3/21/15 at 10:34 pm to Patron Saint
I'm shocked that a predominantly white college in the South isn't more tolerant.
Posted on 3/21/15 at 10:35 pm to Bullfrog
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Ain't nobody got time for a link without some preview for interests.
Edited to add some quotes from the article.
Mostly the article sounds like someone being way overly sensitive and putting the worst spin possible on everything. The one instance of overt racism she experienced in four years was when someone wrote the n-word on her friend's door.
Posted on 3/21/15 at 10:38 pm to WeeWee
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I love how she just assumes they are racist and do not want her even though she maked zero effort to talk to them or get to know them. The perpetually butthurt will always find something though.
+1
Posted on 3/21/15 at 10:39 pm to Patron Saint
Who
Gives
A
shite
?
Gives
A
shite
?
Posted on 3/21/15 at 10:39 pm to WeeWee
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In a sea of skinny white girls and burly blond boys, three thick black women definitely stuck out
Well that's the problem. It wasn't racism.
It was thin privilege
Posted on 3/21/15 at 10:40 pm to lsuwontonwrap
According to her, a house with an old Southern architectural style is racist when combined with pretty trees, blue skies, and people's natural accents.
This post was edited on 3/21/15 at 10:41 pm
Posted on 3/21/15 at 10:41 pm to Patron Saint
She sounds jelly
Posted on 3/21/15 at 10:43 pm to Cosmo
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Growing up in the hood, you assume that living where white folks live means safer streets and unlocked doors. But I never feared for my safety more than I did at Transylvania University. Those flags were often the first things I saw in the morning and the last things I saw at night, smugly watching me scurry to class, snickering, mocking. Well, I do declare! Look at that uppity coon, making like she belongs here, like she’s one of us. This is what happens when you teach ‘em to read. Hope that **** makes it home before the sun goes down.
Posted on 3/21/15 at 10:45 pm to Patron Saint
Could she possibly whine anymore? Nobody ever said or did anything to her. She saw some confederate flags and people singing Dixie, and she's surrounded by racists. Jesus. I'm so sick of overly sensitive people. To some people, those things are heritage. I think it's trashy as hell to display a confederate flag but I don't assume all people who do so are hateful. What a dumb bitch.
Posted on 3/21/15 at 10:46 pm to Patron Saint
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According to her, a house with an old Southern architectural style is racist when combined with pretty trees, blue skies, and people's natural accents.
It was white. You know they did that on purpose.
Posted on 3/21/15 at 10:47 pm to Patron Saint
I really hate people like this. Nothing but an attention seeker.
Posted on 3/21/15 at 10:50 pm to Patron Saint
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This post was edited on 1/10/21 at 11:02 pm
Posted on 3/21/15 at 10:50 pm to Patron Saint
She sounds like her victim card is the Amex black equivalent.
Posted on 3/21/15 at 10:51 pm to Patron Saint
All the dumb rednecks gettin banned in here 
Posted on 3/21/15 at 10:51 pm to Patron Saint
quote:
quote:
I was one of few black students at a small college in Kentucky in the early 2000s. Every day I was reminded just how unwelcome I was there.
quote:
When footage of the University of Oklahoma’s SAE fraternity singing a disgustingly racist chant — which included the phrase “there will never be a **** in SAE” — emerged a couple weeks ago, I felt many things, but surprised wasn’t one of them. The video may have been taken at a private fraternity event on a bus, but I know firsthand that pervasive racism in white Greek organizations is not a new thing. I spent four years at a mostly white college in Kentucky, where daily acts of racism occurred in front of my face. So after seeing the way that some Southern white college students act in the presence of black people, it did not surprise me at all that they’d sing a fun little song about lynching ****s when they think we can’t hear them.
quote:
The apex of the campus, the building proudly displayed in their marketing materials, is a stark white building with big, stately columns called Old Morrison. There’s no sweet way to say that Old Morrison looked like the Big House on an antebellum plantatio
My reading ended when she started to describe a building as a "plantation ".she is just trying to see racism, and does she think that building just sprung up before she got there? A quick search would reveal it was built in 1834. So if you want to find the culprits, find a time machine bitch. How stupid could you be to miss it before registering there in the first place? And if you want a new building, then why don't you kindly fork over these hidden funds that will build said "non-racist " buildings. Oh wait, but racist things happened centuries ago on this land the new building is on. ...and the beat goes on and on and on and on
This post was edited on 3/21/15 at 10:54 pm
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