It seems like that racist crap starts in the home of origin.

it is learned early, at home. My parents were quite liberal, and would not tolerate such behavior. I remember when we moved to Alabama around 1976- a small town outside of Birmingham. We had to go to the city hall, and my sister needed a drink. So, my mother took her to a water fountain to get one. I know it wasn't legal to have a sign up at that time, but I guess it was understood by the locals that the fountain she used was the "colored" fountain. Someone said something to my mother to such effect, and proceeded to receive an ear full from her. My mother brooked no shit.

the racist chant.

I was lucky when I was in second grade to go to his new-fangled school in San Francisco called the Multicultural Institute. There, they mixed people of various races together (as much as they can) and encouraged multiculturalism. Yes, we actually did sit in a circle and sang kumbayah. And other protest and freedom songs of the sixties.

Half of the day was spent learning about our own culture and every once in a while, we were supposed to present our culture to other groups.

Yes, we also learned the alphabet and spelling and history and math. But the main goal was to learn how to get along with each other. (And I was a real dick back then.)

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http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2015/03/jesuit-dallas-president-says-graduate-appears-to-be-leading-racist-chant-in-ou-sae-video.html/

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2015/03/racist_frat_boy_leader_of_ou_chant_is_dallas_jesuit_grad_school_says.php

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/2-University-of-Oklahoma-Students-Expelled-Over-Racist-Video-295776381.html


From what I can gather this kid has brought down a lot upon his family, only a freshman at OU. He graduated from Jesuit, where many of the wealthiest in Dallas send their kids. He apparently has several older brothers that also went to OU and were members of same frat. Hell is raining down upon this young man and his family right now. Rightly so.
I would certainly hate to have the Pres of OU, the Pres of Jesuit in Dallas, Barry Switzer and who knows who is next coming out with the statements being made coming down on my head right now. But I, even at 19, would never have made such a remark or led any group of people in a chant as awful as what he did. I have little doubt his family live in Highland Park or somewhere close to the Bush family in North Dallas. What a little POS.

will be identified within the next day or so. And he and his family will be able to enjoy the fruits of his labors. Of course, he will have no problem career wise. He will go back to Dallas and be totally supported and even lauded by many. But the stink will be on him for the rest of his life

it doesn't get more prep school than that.

fraternity photo in front of Tulane frat house with noose... What's old is new again! I guess it took both Obama being elected President and the hyper-partisanship currently in vogue to bring racism back out in the open. Looking at these pictures and reading the story, just imagine these white collage grads going out into the world and now being in positions of power in companies all over. Now imagine that you are black, educated, qualified and seeking a job. How many of these racist son of a bitches are you going to come across in your career! When white people (I am one) comment that they are tired of hearing the "race card" played and think that it is over-used, just look at the pictures at the site and multiply those faces times all of the members of that fraternity for many years, then multiply that times most of those fraternities at Tulane, then add LSU, and all the other Southern collages ...
Walk a mile in a minorities shoes and hear the stories of the older black folks. Experience subtle and overt racism throughout your life and then imagine how tired you are of hearing about it. You hear it so often because it is still so widespread!
If anything good has come out of Ferguson, its the attention that racism has received in the media. Many white people supported the Voting Rights Act after watching black people being hosed and beaten 50 years ago, and many more today have been made aware of how bad things still are after seeing story after story, video after video, of unarmed black men being gunned down by police. Maybe we are at another turning point, maybe not, but sides are being drawn again!

P.S. If you read further on The American Zombie you can learn the truth of the BP oil spill and how one foreign corporation can bribe its way out of paying for harm to our waters and to hundreds of thousands of Americans without our media reporting anything (exception goes to Ed Schultz and a few honest print reporters)!