Damn right, the frat is known formally as "Kappa Alpha Southern Order." Everyone at UT knows about the KA's reputation as racists. Unfortunately, this does go on. Also, the Phi Delta Gammas (aka Fiji) are notorious as well.
But Kappa Alpha president Tim Weaver said the party's theme was meant to idolize rap music and popular culture icons and he did not realize people were going to be offended. This is hilarious, coming from Kappa Kappa Kappa alpha. "Idolize rap music"...LOL. Yeah, I'm sure that's their intent.
Just ran across this & felt that after condemning a group of A&M jackasses, logic dictates that I must equally condemn these 2 groups of UT jackasses. Seriously, you would think that after the 21343547657th time one of these idiotic "Ghetto/Hip-hop/pimps&hos - themed" parties has not gone too well, they would get the hint & grow up. Do frat guys not read the news? Have they gotten anything from years of education? How do these idiots get into a university such as this w/ increasingly high standards? Morons Anyway... The KA's are probably the most inbred, racist, ignorant organization I ever came across back in college. This applied to every single damn chapter of theirs across the state that I ran into. Didn't they also get in trouble years ago for locking pledges in some small trapdoor/basement thing & then urinating/defecating on them?
Look, if your schtick as a comedian consists wholly of making comparisons ("black people do it this way/white people do it like this"), then you don't deserve to get past Monday nights at the Laff Stop. Sadly, there seem to be many comedians who do get by on this. That just shows a lack of creativity/talent, not some inherent racism.
Everything else, I understand. But, what is offensive about a white person wearing a Juneteenth T-shirt?
Normally I would agree, but since this fraternity has a history of racial insensitivity, I doubt the guy was celebrating Juneteenth, which btw, is a holiday celebrating emancipation of slaves in Texas. In the context of the incident, I think its fair to assume the guy was mocking black people.
Look, I also don't think it's any secret that many "whites" make light of, or completely ignore "black" holidays such as Juneteenth & Kwanzaa. Even if it wasn't a KA involved, I'd gander that a white kid running around in Kwanzaa gear probably wasn't doing it to celebrate the event...
i think it's quite obvious they weren't making fun of slavery. Remember Flava Flav or Slick Rick? the fact that you automatically considered the chain and lock as a knock on slavery seems like youre just looking for a reason to get offended. get over it. ps - i'm neither white nor black.
Slighly off topic.... I think the notion of a "black" holiday is just a silly as the notion of a white holiday. Juneteenth is an American holiday. I'm not sure what Kwanza is but are white people prohibited from celebrating it? All Americans (actually I mean U.S. Americans so as not to offend our friends to the North ) should consider themselves humans and Americans first. Race is no different from hair color or height or body-type: it's just a series of physical characteristics that you have no control over. It doesn't define your intelligence, skill levels or apptitudes. Nor should it affect what hollidays you celebrate or how you celebrate them - your family and friends should have more influence over that then your race.
OK. So, if I'm white, I have two choices: 1) Celebrate Juneteenth, try to empathize/ share it, wear the T-shirt, have it taken the wrong way? or 2) ignore it, and be considered racist for ignoring it? Don't get me wrong - what the frats were doing seems blatantly racist. But that's based on all the evidence put together, not just some T-shirt alone. Otherwise, you could call us all racists just for doing the things we do by accident...
3 Why do people always get upset about someone being offended by racism and defend the racists on this message board. And another thing, don't ever tell me what to be offended by, and a third thing, you don't know what the chain and lock meant, and a fourth thing, there is nothing funny about whites painting their faces black. This fraternity has a history or racism, I didn't have to look for it.
Well if the facts prove of this incident prove that the guy was being offensive, what is your point, this is the only incident this thread is about? If you were at a Juneteenth parade with a Juneteenth T shirt, I wouldn't be offended, but as you stated already, in the context it was meant to be offensive.
Well, his screen name is "SWTsig," so we can probably assume that he's a Sig-something (Ep, Tua, Chi, AE, etc.) at Southwest Texas. Maybe that's why he got so touchy. Yes, I would venture to say that fraternities include & produce fine human beings - but the KA's have such a history of doing this crap over & over that it's become pathetic.
Burrito. I am an SWT Sig too....Sigma Chi, and we were not racist in the least. I don't think branding all frats racist is a very worldly view, do you? DD
yes the frat is a good ole boy organization...but did you even see the picture? the chain and the lock were painted gold and the guy was wearing some red disco pants. http://www.dailytexanonline.com/vne...howImage&article_id=3e47ad7d5fa66&image_num=1
