Racist Video- Commentary by Earl Ofari Hutcherson
Five years before the racist video by the disgraced Oklahoma University fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon ignited a firestorm of student and public rage, hundreds of students and faculty members were up in arms over the "Compton Cook Out" at the University of California, San Diego and several other UC campuses. The protests didn't stop racist, bad behaving fraternities from being just that, racist, bad behaving fraternities. In quick succession, there was the "Halloween in the Hood" party, the lynching parties, and the Klan frolic at other universities. Then there's the standard variety of hanging nooses, white hoods, racist graffiti, racial slurs and taunts that have been aimed at minority students. The colleges that have been called on the carpet for the racist acts read like a who's who of American higher education. Clemson University, Auburn, Lehigh, Tarleton State, Texas A&M, University of Texas, Austin, University of Connecticut, Johns Hopkins, Whitman College, Arizona State University, Columbia University, the University of Chicago, Duke University, Dartmouth, and Randolph-Macon, to name a handful.
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