Hip-hop star not mad at SAE house mom singing n-word
Source: CNN
"I'm not going to be that person," he told CNN. "It's a rock and a hard place. I can't be as upset at that lady. I'm upset at the fraternity because what they're saying is a chant that's just completely disrespectful to the black race. As far as that lady goes -- man, that's an old lady, man. Let that lady be."
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"It's hard to ridicule somebody for something that you continue to use in your music," he said. "Every (hip-hop) artist is using the n-word in their music -- hit records with the n-word in it. You can't be upset when somebody says it. You can't. It's hard to differentiate when you can use it. If we don't want the word used and the word holds such a negative connotation, then we shouldn't use it at all, period."
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He has a different take on the fraternity members caught clapping, pumping their fists and chanting, "There will never be a ni**** SAE. You can hang him from a tree, but he can never sign with me."
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He took it personally, he said, because he and other hip-hop artists travel the country to perform for fraternities, and to know any fraternity member would harbor such vile feelings toward him "burns my heart."
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Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/12/us/university-oklahoma-house-mom-trinidad-james/
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Doesn't mean she was, but she sure wasn't talking about hanging up from trees. 
That is my main thing. Her story blew up and it became about her instead of the frat. I won't condone her use of it, I can't. But she took enough lumps by now. Those boys tho. 
SAE is acting like the problem is OU and not the shitty racist fraternity itself
racism = "lack of judgement in a social setting"
hoo boy 
I went to rush as a Freshmen and couldn't BELIEVE the open and obvious racism. I didn't pledge a Greek fraternity. I did eventually pledge a service fraternity. We still had parties almost every weekend. 
