Former OU fraternity member apologizes for racist chant

Before she got caught in the tornado outbreak in oklahoma deanna zoga was in oklahoma city for the first public on camera apology about the racist fraternity video scandal levi pettit from highland park called his words hateful and racist he and dallas teenager parker rice were both expelled from the university of

Oklahoma and their fraternity was shut down when the video was posted online three weeks ago deanna tells us tonight what levi pettit hopes people take away from his apology let me start by saying that i’m sorry deeply sorry taking a deep breath before facing around 20 tv cameras levi pettit

Apologized for his role in this now infamous video showing him and other sigma alpha epsilon fraternity members heading to a formal earlier this year singing a song that references lynching and how black students could never sign with their fraternity i’m also upset and embarrassed that i failed to stand up as

A leader and stop this champ i now have a clear understanding of what lives behind the words from this point forward i will be the leader that i should have been on that bus and stand up against racism in any form pettit was joined by oklahoma state senator anastasia pittman who says this

Is just the beginning for pettit and that he’s made a commitment to her to work with other students the purpose of this meeting is to demonstrate how a village can raise a child and how we can use this as a platform to educate the public and be able to call upon the

Governor of our great state to make sure that we by executive order be inclusive of african american history in our curriculum and in our schools pettit and another student from dallas parker rice were expelled from ou pettit is the only one who has made public comments but today he would not

Answer questions about that song who taught it to him and how often it’s repeated only saying that those words should never be said again i’m not here to talk about what happened on the bus all everyone here and across the nation has seen what i’ve done

I’m here to apologize for what i did because this is something that i’ve learned is disgusting and should never happen again in any form pettit also read an apology letter that he sent o.u president david boren saying that he understood why he lost the privilege of attending o.u but that he

Also hoped he could make amends in the future reporting from oklahoma city deanna zoga fox 4 news

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