Thanks SAE, For Proving Racism Still Exists

            I am going to give you some lyrics, your job is to guess who sang them. Ready? GO!

“You can hang them from a tree, but they’ll never sign with me! There will never be a n***** SAE!”

            There’s a lot of enthusiasm and gusto behind that exciting chant. Know who uttered those completely racist lyrics? If you were thinking any rapper, you’re completely wrong. It was a bunch of 20-something-frat-rats on a party bus from Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) from the University of Oklahoma, where the racism comes sweeping down the lane. Rush Limbaugh, the positive-polly that he is, believes that if these same lyrics were auto-tuned by Kanye West, they would be a hit. This is complete bullshit, because even I know that Kanye would never write about lynching black people in his music, and I don’t even like Kanye!
            What is more egregious, is the fact that media personalities, like Rush Limbaugh, are trying to defend the actions of these college students. Oh! I should mention that the SAE members singing this lovely chant were all white. Actually, the entire SAE fraternity AROUND THE COUNTRY is a bunch of entitled white kids that have had several incidents of racism that spans, I don’t know, their entire history, because they are proud to be the only fraternity with roots in the Antebellum South. So let us take a tour of the arguments to defend the indefensible. Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Bill Kristol, prove me wrong!

What say you, Bill Kristol?
“Popular culture becomes a cesspool, a lot of corporations profit off of it, and then people are surprised that some drunk 19-year-old kids repeat what they’ve been hearing.”

To the lady, Mika Brzezinski!
“If you look at every single song, I guess you call these, that he’s written (talking about Waka Flocka Flame), it’s a bunch of garbage. It’s full of n-words, it’s full of f-words. It’s wrong. And he shouldn’t be disgusted with them, he should be disgusted with himself.”

Bring us home! Joe Scarborough!
“The kids that are buying hip-hop or gangster rap, it’s a white audience, and they hear this over and over again. So do they hear this at home? Well, chances are good, no, they heard a lot of this from guys like this (Flocka) who are now acting shocked.”

            To summarize the porous arguments our three white-middle-aged talk show hosts just threw against the wall, they basically said that rap music by Waka Flocka influenced these kids and their chant. Okay…first off, no. I have not listened to Waka Flocka before, but a quick glance at some of his lyrics does show a lot of n-words and f-bombs, but nothing about lynching those people with darker skin tones. Nor any mention of not allowing anyone to join up with his group of over privileged friends.
            The chant that SAE sang on the party bus was not caused by exposure to rap music. Period. That chant is obviously something that is a tradition for that particular fraternity. I can tell that because it’s fairly specific in its message that no black people will ever sign on as a pledge with them. I also don’t know many rappers that sing about their experiences in their fraternity, or trying to sign/pledge with a frat in college. So, we could probably just toss out that argument, and say these white kids are flat out racists.
            To have the nerve, nay, the cajones, to believe that there can be a defense for the actions of the members of this fraternity is amazing to me. How is it you can blame a society for encouraging, or from our three exhibits above, actually promoting this type of behavior from our college students? How is it not the individual’s fault for saying this racist garbage because they are…how should I put this…a racist. Yes, they were saying that chant because there is still a deep and pervasive racial divide in our country. That may be the actual reason these idiots were chanting what they were chanting. NOT because they heard a rap song with the n-word.
            Don’t blame society. Don’t blame music. Don’t blame rap music. Don’t blame the individual rappers. The people you should be blaming are the individuals that allow this type of thinking to pollute our society. These kids did not just make up a chant that has no meaning to them. There’s a reason why they are saying that they won’t let any black students join their fraternity. Know what it is? They found a group of like-minded individuals that share common ideals and values and backgrounds. I’m going to go out on a limb here and just say that most of these SAE members and pledges…wait, did I say most? I meant ALL members and pledges…come from households where the n-word is commonly used between all family members, and they use it in a derogatory manner. Just a guess, but I’m assuming I’m 100% right.
            If you believe this is an isolated incident, you are painfully wrong. The SAE chapter at Clemson University held a Christmas bash called “Clemson Cripmas”. It was a racially themed party where the partygoers dressed up as Crips gang members. Remember, SAE is a totally white frat, and the Crips are an African American gang. You may see the issue with this party, if not you’re an idiot. The party was so bad that the SAE national organization suspended the Clemson chapter. FOREVER!
            There are also two other reported incidents where SAE members from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri rapped racial remarks to African-American students on campus. And another instance where SAE members from Memphis University were suspended when they used racial slurs towards a pledges African-American girlfriend. These are only the reported incidents from this fraternity. So, I’m fairly sure that those are just the tip of the iceberg of the actual racist things this wonderful fraternity has done in its historic existence.

            This episode of racism is just one example of how racism is still alive and kicking in the United States, despite what Fox News says. There is still this prevailing attitude that somehow, someway, because some person has a darker shade of skin than eggshell white, they are a lesser person, or less deserving of respect. Holy hell! How can we still think like this! It is apparent that there is a large swath of America that needs to grow up and understand that there are people who look different than what they look like. Deal with it, and stop believing that skin tone is the sole criteria for judging a person. Actions speak louder than words, and the actions by SAE show just how far we have crept along since the 1960s to step out of the shadow of a segregated United States. Oh, how far we’ve come.

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