Featured University of Oklahoma Fraternity Closed After Video of Racist Chant

A publicly funded university shouldn't have policies that limit free speech.

 

You are seriously comparing people chanting about black people not being acceptable and being lynched to telling a girl she's dressed to skimpy?

THAT is your fear of what will happen if people aren't allowed to group together and chant slurs about blacks while referencing lynching?

I think you're letting fear take the place of common sense. We live in a time where all of our freedoms are threatened, and that is scary, but hating people based on the color of their skin and expressing it by refusing to accept such people and talking positively about lynching is wrong. I think you know that. Don't let the fear of what will happen if you stand up against wrong stop you from doing what is right.

 

Prayer is necessary. Hatred is the cause of anyone verbally degrading someone because of gender, race, or religion. If anyone would say those things, it's not out their sphere to act on those things.

 

I agree----Salty has a point!!

 

I feel the exact same way. Most people are ashamed enough of their sin to not go as far as this group though, which is probably why so many of the kids on campus are shocked.

I have never run a large facility, but it would have been interesting to see this handled different thus far, though it may not have been possible for security reasons. What if they would have called a meeting and had those involved stand in front of the other students and converse about racism? Have them confront and face their actions and explain what brought them to that point. That might accomplish more than just having them relocate and continue on with nothing but their newly discovered knowledge to not expose themselves so blatantly.

 

How soon we forget the crowds marching down our streets chanting: What do we want? DEAD COPS .... When do we want it: NOW! And they were not chanting this about black cops as we found out when two of NYPD's finest (neither were black) were gunned down in their car.

Not that this frat was right, because what they did was dispicible, disgusting and not a representation of the
America I love, but ne:wavey:ither were the anti-cop crowds all around this country.

Another thing. Last week a group of white college kids were picketing while chained to each other blocking a bridge. They were all arrested once freed from their elaborate chained to trash cans of cement. BUT, no one in law enforcement did anything to get the throngs of angry anti-cop crowds off the public streets. And the few times arrests were made, it was token in comparison to all white crowds marching and protesting in our streets.

I have to ask WHY???

 

Here, here! In Cali, AKA the Left Coast, our liberal leaning UC system universities are allowed to say and do nearly anything they want. In fact it surprised me that admin stopped UCI ASB from banning the stars and stripes from the student lounge. That was a bold act on both sides, and I halfway expected the ban to stand.

 

You are correct about losing our freedoms ... as a city in Florida (Lake Worth) is trying to pass a law requiring churches to have a license to "pray!"

We are entering scary times. Even so Lord Jesus, come!

 

Here is what the good young white boys were shouting over and over and over .... and some of you are defending them.

 

People keep bringing up freedom of speech. This has nothing to do with freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is the ability to speak out against the government with no gubernatorial repercussions. In most states, it's actually illegal to cuss in public. Again, freedom of speech is not the ability to say whatever you want. It's protection from government persecution for someone disagreeing with them.

 

Very nicely stated clarification of an oft misunderstood term. Next up : Censorship.

 

Agreed.

But should the national fraternity and the school have an option to say "these people don't represent us and our beliefs," thus giving them the option to shut down this particular fraternity?

 

So two wrongs make a right?