Texas College 'Celebrate' Martin Luther King Jr. Day

[Gitdog]

I'm surprised no one has posted this story.
Personally I think everyone should pull the PC stick out of their *** and lighten up, it's a college party for Christ's sake. Whoooooptee Dooooo.


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Last week, while the nation paused to remember the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a group of students at a Texas college outside Fort Worth marked the day by throwing a party that featured black stereotype costumes — including a student dressed as Aunt Jemima — a main course of fried chicken and cases of malt liquor.

 

[reaganburch]

I'm surprised no one has posted this story.
Personally I think everyone should pull the PC stick out of their *** and lighten up, it's a college party for Christ's sake. Whoooooptee Dooooo.


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They have some pictures of the party on The Smoking Gun website... some of them ARE pretty funny, actually.... in a "I shouldn't be laughing at this" type of way...

 

[Gitdog]

I also saw that. Including the article that more than one college had this kind of party, see HERE

 

[reaganburch]

I also saw that. Including the article that more than one college had this kind of party, see HERE

Yeah, I saw THAT one, too...

Hopefully, none of these KIDS, grow up to be successful AND ever decide to run for office or get nominated for the Supreme Court. These pictures will be brought out for everybody to see...

Was this party smart? No. Was it racially insensitive? Absolutely. Was it fun? With the amount of liquor there, I'd say yes. Plus, they're college kids and trust me when I say(from experience), college kids do some REALLY stupid things that they regret later... usually with hangovers... but still...

 

[Gitdog]

Yeah, I saw THAT one, too...

Hopefully, none of these KIDS, grow up to be successful AND ever decide to run for office or get nominated for the Supreme Court. These pictures will be brought out for everybody to see...

Was this party smart? No. Was it racially insensitive? Absolutely. Was it fun? With the amount of liquor there, I'd say yes. Plus, they're college kids and trust me when I say(from experience), college kids do some REALLY stupid things that they regret later... usually with hangovers... but still...

I think they are portraying what they grew up seeing on MTV and other stations that only use stereotypical images of black people. I don't believe this was meant to hurt anyone, and think the "sensitivity level" is way too high these days. Aren't all college party's stupid anyways? Isn't that the whole point, to get stupid drunk and laid?

 

[reaganburch]

I think they are portraying what they grew up seeing on MTV and other stations that only use stereotypical images of black people. I don't believe this was meant to hurt anyone, and think the "sensitivity level" is way too high these days. Aren't all college party's stupid anyways? Isn't that the whole point, to get stupid drunk and laid?

I agree about the sensitivity level... on ALL levels, racial, sexual, etc...

And yes, if I remember college correctly, which is so-so considering how much I drank back then, the purpose of college parties is to get stupid, drunk and laid...

 

[Stinger]

See my thread in Freedom of Speech section

 

[Gitdog]

See my thread in Freedom of Speech section

I like my thread better, it has replies in it. Don't get all excited I'm just joking.:2wave:

 

[danarhea]

I'm surprised no one has posted this story.
Personally I think everyone should pull the PC stick out of their *** and lighten up, it's a college party for Christ's sake. Whoooooptee Dooooo.


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I find it to be in very poor taste. I do have one question, though. Did any of the participants also carry chains in their pickup trucks as a joke?

 

[Gitdog]

I find it to be in very poor taste. I do have one question, though. Did any of the participants also carry chains in their pickup trucks as a joke?

I believe the point was to dress and act like a stereotype of a black person. Not dress and act like racists. So I wouldn't think chains were in anyones truck. But I wasn't there so I wouldn't know. Stinger had a good point in his thread on the same subject in the Freedom of Speech section.

Stinger:
The thing that struck me was remembering a movie not too long ago titled "White Chicks" where two black comics, who also produced and directed it, dressed up as white girls and made a movie about making fun of how they precieve white people act, they stereotyped them. And no one said a thing about it. They were interviewed on TV about their movie. And it played in hundreds of theaters and the guys who made it made money off of it. And no one called it "reprehensible".

 

[danarhea]

I believe the point was to dress and act like a stereotype of a black person. Not dress and act like racists. So I wouldn't think chains were in anyones truck. But I wasn't there so I wouldn't know. Stinger had a good point in his thread on the same subject in the Freedom of Speech section.

I did not bring up rascism. Notice I said they would have chains in their pickup trucks as a joke.

Are those kids rascist? A couple of them, maybe, but the vast majority are just dumb white kids, and I mean really dumb. If they had so much as a lick of common sense, they would lick it. These kids are the same kind of nerds the jocks do wedgies on.

3 words to describe these total dweebs. Dumb and Dumberer. LOL.

 

[Dr_Patrick]

I did not bring up rascism. Notice I said they would have chains in their pickup trucks as a joke.

Are those kids rascist? A couple of them, maybe, but the vast majority are just dumb white kids, and I mean really dumb. If they had so much as a lick of common sense, they would lick it. These kids are the same kind of nerds the jocks do wedgies on.

3 words to describe these total dweebs. Dumb and Dumberer. LOL.

I personally think that they were just mocking the stereotypes in and of themselves. I personally love stereotype humor because stereotypes are always so poorly constructed and idiotic that they deserve to be mocked. Although, I can definitely see how this kind of humor could be misinterpreted as racism or just plain thoughtless.

 

[Gitdog]

These kids are the same kind of nerds the jocks do wedgies on.

3 words to describe these total dweebs. Dumb and Dumberer. LOL.

:lamo That's freakin hilarious.

 

[Gitdog]

I personally think that they were just mocking the stereotypes in and of themselves. I personally love stereotype humor because stereotypes are always so poorly constructed and idiotic that they deserve to be mocked. Although, I can definitely see how this kind of humor could be misinterpreted as racism or just plain thoughtless.

I also like the same kind of humor. Undercover Brother (yes, I like that movie)does a good job of this. If I saw pictures of a party with only black people dressing up as white nerds or some white stereotype I would laugh my *** off.

 

[Stinger]

I like my thread better, it has replies in it. Don't get all excited I'm just joking.:2wave:

I "debate" on whether to put it in breaking news but then I try to spread things out.

 

[Stinger]

OK since my thread is dying a slow death I'll just copy my from there to here.

Students at Texas College 'Celebrate' Martin Luther King Jr. Day by Throwing Stereotype Party Friday, January 26, 2007

Last week, while the nation paused to remember the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a group of students at a Texas college outside Fort Worth marked the day by throwing a party that featured black stereotype costumes — including a student dressed as Aunt Jemima — a main course of fried chicken and cases of malt liquor.
The insensitivity didn't end there. The students then brazenly posted their party photos on the popular Web site Facebook.com for all the world to see.
School administrators at Tarleton State University in Stephenville told FOXNews.com they are investigating an off-campus Martin Luther King Jr. Day student party held on Jan. 15 that the school's president called "reprehensible."
FOXNews.com - Students at Texas College 'Celebrate' Martin Luther King Jr. Day by Throwing Stereotype Party - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News




Now let me stipulate from the begining. I wouldn't go to this party, I wouldn't send my kids, I would advise my kids not to go. So before anyone tries to go on the attack............can it.




OK some might say it is politically incorrect BUT this is still a free country and this was a private party.



The thing that struck me was remembering a movie not too long ago titled "White Chicks" where two black comics, who also produced and directed it, dressed up as white girls and made a movie about making fun of how they perceive white people act, they stereotyped them. And no one said a thing about it. They were interviewed on TV about their movie. And it played in hundreds of theaters and the guys who made it made money off of it. And no one called it "reprehensible".


Again, I wouldn't go to a party like that and I wouldn't rent or pay to watch the movie, I saw enough by accident at someone else's house to see it wasn't funny.

So why is the above even a story?

 

[jallman]

I find it to be in very poor taste. I do have one question, though. Did any of the participants also carry chains in their pickup trucks as a joke?

Now don't you think that's just a little over the top, histrionic, and hysterical? They were college kids having a theme party. Personally, I see stunts like this as positive because it dilutes the race issue rather than intensify it.

 

[chosendudenyc]

My perception on this tread is the un-American haste of many Americans, mainly those who are conservative, wealthy, and of “primary” skin tone, to bare explanation in the increasing concerns that has been genocide for our nation. That genocide is the minority debate and the lives lost within, leading toward the assumption of slavery as the main factor.

One of the saddest situations in America is the belief of viewing Americans who are not “primary” as collective, kind-of like the Borg character within the, Star Trek series. No individuality the cause of civil unrest very separated and bitter specie.

The more the wrong leadership within America continues the more American divide we all will suffer from. And it’s our faults for believing into skin tone over humanity and Americanism. Stereotypes isn’t the way to present solidarity neither is thinking within a collective mentality and casting all who are conceived as secondary and minorities within haste of negative judgments.

The consideration to amend slavery was just that. A consideration during the creation of the Bill of Rights. That emulation was given the right to be amended once the consideration into slavery became more; in which it did. Unfortunately, it took decades, generations, presidents, and innocent lives lost.

After the assassination of Lincoln, our nation went into a ‘Habeas Corpus’ direction, in which a new “amendment” became law which was, Jim Crow. Laws for many Americans with darker skin tones became expelled or taken away and replaced by an unbalanced and unlawful democratic system.

Briefly to finish the timeline, Jim Crow was finally eliminated by law, by LBJ I believe in 1964. So, it’s not about the guilt over slavery, and folks must realize, that the elimination of slavery didn’t just eliminate the American divide. And, I feel no one is personally attacking anyone that may have descendents from the very dark days of American pasts.

Don’t let the stereotypical figures like Al Sharpton, 50 cent, Stephen A Smith, Charles Barkley, George Allen., and others who profit off of American and human differences cloud the progressive spirit this country so deserves.

Not everyone who is conceived as a minority lives collective, stereotypical, urban, ethnic, cultural, and un-American. But, it’s sad once a secondary image is present and someone who can only separate within colors or black and white crosses paves, this type of political and social banter and belief system starts too kick start feelings that should have died along with slavery.

Conservatives feel it’s their duty, American duty, to bid the Liberals incorrect and un-American. Conservatives feel it’s their duty to caste slavery as the primary cause in issues our Republican President fails to foresee as concerns but of course, that doesn’t stop the assumptions. Oh the assumptions.

If you are Liberal, Independent, or Conservative that shouldn’t expel you from working together with others for the betterment of our nation and not the further American divide that has brought us to feel so passionately towards this thread whether good or bad.

 

[RightinNYC]

I despise the actions of schools in punishing people for things like this.

Schools have no business trying to regulate the actions of students OFF campus.

If you want to see a similarly ridiculous incident (and one where thanks to high quality legal help, a good resolution was reached, check out this story:

FIRE - Johns Hopkins University: Student Punished for Party Invitation