This morning black leaders accept the apology of a former college student who sang a racist chant 20 year-old Levi Pettit says he has learned a very tough lesson he was expelled from the University of Oklahoma after video surfaced earlier this month it shows him leading the song on the Sigma Alpha
Epsilon fraternity bus Jericka Duncan shows us what he says now tareka good morning good morning Levi Pettit said the words he sang were mean hateful and racist but when pressed about where he learned the song that collapsed the Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter at the University of Oklahoma he deflected I’m
Not here today to talk about where I learned the chant or how I was taught I’m here to apologize for what I did in a little over two weeks time Levi Pettit has changed his tune a nine-second video of him in another young man leaving oh you students in a song about lynching
Blacks and barring them from their fraternity sunk his college career everyone here in across the nation has seen what I’ve done on Wednesday the former member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon stuck to his script there are no excuses for my behavior I never thought of myself as a racist I never considered it
A possibility african-american leaders who met privately with Pettit and his family said they accepted his apology if he didn’t say anything else that was most certainly enough for us Parker rice also expelled by the university after the video surfaced has not spoken publicly in a statement issued two weeks
Ago he said the song was taught to us 18 and 19 and 20 year old children and that’s what they our children did not know anything about lynching but we still have a great number of people in Oklahoma who do before he met with the press there was a private sit-down with
State and lawmakers as well as church leaders he and his family were reportedly challenged to join the n-double-a-cp glad thanks tariqa
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