We got an ugly reminder today that racism is still alive just as America is marking the anniversary of a turning point in the civil rights movement it happened at the University of Oklahoma in Norman where members of a fraternity recorded a racist chant which of course went online today the fraternity was
Shut down and the university president said he wants the students in the video to leave and he offered to pay their bus fare Jericka Duncan is in Norman Oklahoma this is the video that did so much damage in only nine seconds the clip was posted on a website Sunday night we
Don’t know when or where it was shot we don’t know the identities of the students the video makes light of lynchings and barring blacks from Sigma Alpha Epsilon or SAE before Sunday night was over the national fraternity disowned the OU u chapter Brandon Wegg horse is the national spokesman we are
Apologetic not only to the individuals who are offended by the video but to our own members who are from different backgrounds because they should never see a video like that they should never be subjected to that kind of hateful message the frat house was shut down by the University and members were ordered
To move out by midnight early this morning University of Oklahoma President David Boren joined students who gathered to protest these people have acted in a way that is absolutely reprehensible and disgraceful we cannot put up with it Isaac Hill is the president of the black Students Association on campus
He says he’s disappointed but not surprised I’ve actually been amazed to see how oh you has come together to say like not on our campus we will not accept this and we will not sit idly by with 15,000 members nationwide SAE is the first fraternity in the antebellum South in
Fact it was started one 159 years ago today that’s got 12 chapters over the last 18 months had been closed because of hazing or hazing related situations Jericka Duncan in Oklahoma forest tonight jurika thanks very much
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