Eugene Robinson -Fraternity boys and the long shadow of racism

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/fraternity-boys-and-the-long-shadow-of-racism/2015/03/12/d487c456-c8cf-11e4-a199-6cb5e63819d2_story.html
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See, I keep telling you that old-fashioned racism is alive and well in this country. After the fraternity bus sing-along at the University of Oklahoma, do you hear me now?

Frankly, the happy-go-lucky bigotry of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity brothers — captured on video and shown to the world — shocked even me. And I was raised in the South, back in the days when Jim Crow was under assault but still very much alive.

It wasn’t just the repeated vow of eternal segregation, with its implication of white supremacy: “There will never be a n----- SAE.” To put it mildly, it was jarring to hear such young people — millennials, usually raised on an intellectual diet of diversity and inclusiveness — casually tossing around the vilest racial epithet as if they had been using it all their lives.

But the real stunner was the line describing what to do with any black man who might have the gall to seek to join their fraternity: “You can hang ’em from a tree.”

Whoa. Just like that, they went all the way to lynching? And thought it was funny?
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