re: A Black Girl's History with Southern Frat Racism

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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 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

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The day before my graduation day, I walked about the lawn of Old Morrison, strewn with lawn chairs placed for the commencement ceremony. We’d already gotten our seating assignments and I wanted to check mine out. Mine was near some scaffolding on the side of the stage, and hanging loosely from the scaffolding, within eyeshot, was a tiny black noose. I don’t know if someone put it there knowing that I would see it. But it sure felt like it.

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