If it
doesn't work out for the boys at #SAE at
Oklahoma University, I hear the Ferguson Police department is hiring!
#Oklahoma
#BlackTwitter
—
Ξ BLACK REPUBLICAN Ξ (@blackrepublican) March
9, 2015
For those who don't know, let's recap
The national organization of Sigma Alpha Epsilon closed the Oklahoma Kappa chapter at the University of Oklahoma after a video surfaced showing members singing a racist, unsanctioned chant. The video shows a group of young Caucasian American students boisterously singing "There will never be a nigger in SAE. You can hang him from a tree, but he can never sign with me. set to the popular children's song, "If You're Happy and You Know It." Sigma Alpha Epsilon quickly suspended the charter of the involved chapter and suspended it's members on Sunday, March 8, 2015.Now let's move on to the history of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity The first national fraternity to be established in the deep south, having been founded at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, on 9 March 1856. Why am I not surprised Sigma Alpha Epsilon was founded at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa?
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, one of the largest college fraternities in the nation, announced unprecedented moves to eliminate pledgeship and initiation in all of its chapters after at least 10 deaths have been linked to hazing, alcohol and drugs at chapter events, Bloomberg News reports.Click here for a list of notable members of the fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Note: There are no black or minority members on the list, but here is a sample of who is on the list:
- Ed Wilson - President of Tribune Broadcasting (Tribune Company), former President of Fox Television, NBC Enterprises, and CBS Enterprises, University of Arkansas
- George Bodenheimer - President of ESPN Inc. and ESPN on ABC
- George Gallup - Creator of Gallup Poll, University of Iowa
- Larry Kurzweil - President/COO, Universal Studios Hollywood
- Chris Sullivan, founder Outback Steakhouse, University of Kentucky
- James M. Farr - President of the University of Florida
- Bruce Grube - President of Georgia Southern University
- Luis Proenza- President of University of Akron
- Mike Feinberg - Knowledge is Power Program
- Thomas Kermit Hearn - President of Wake Forest University
- Edwin Speir - President of Georgia College and State University
- Dan Papp - President of Kennesaw State University
- Gary Ransdell - President of Western Kentucky University
- Julian Boyman - McGill University
- Max Baucus - U.S. Senator from Montana (D), Stanford University
- Jim DeMint - U.S. Senator from South Carolina (R), University of Tennessee
- Johnny Isakson - U.S. Senator from Georgia (R), University of Georgia
- Mark Pryor - U.S. Senator from Arkansas (D), University of Arkansas
- Andy Barr (U.S. politician) - US Representative from Kentucky (R) University of Virginia
- David Dreier - US Representative from California (R), University of La Verne
According to Washington University's Student Life newspaper, WU suspended all SAE activities following a racially offensive activity involving a number of pledges on Tuesday night. The paper and an account e-mailed to BroBible allege that SAE pledges hurled racial slurs and "inflammatory language" toward a group of African-American students who were eating in a campus dining hall. The incident was allegedly part of an SAE rush event.After reading the list of proud Alums of #SAE take a stroll down memory lane and read Old South Parade Bites Bullet in Alabama, be sure and read the comments for laughs and giggles.
Just this week, I was asked whether I thought the Department of Justice’s Ferguson report shows that, with respect to race, little has changed in this country. I understand the question, for the report’s narrative was woefully familiar. It evoked the kind of abuse and disregard for citizens that spawned the Civil Rights Movement. But I rejected the notion that nothing’s changed. What happened in Ferguson may not be unique, but it’s no longer endemic, or sanctioned by law and custom; and before the Civil Rights Movement, it most surely was. ~President Barack Hussein ObamaOh, really?
