PASSAGE
San Simeon Ca
SELF DESTRUCTIVELY STUPID
To begin, it is not the model of appropriate 21st Century behavior to be, at worst, a hate filled racist bigot or, at best, so insensitive as to sing about lynching using a racial epithet.
To be such and to additionally be so stupid as to do it in the presence of cameras makes you a laughing stock of the planet and puts you in the same league as ISIS. You are not worthy of humanity.
The SAE Chapter at the University of Oklahoma deserves sanction and the University community has responded strongly, as civilized people must.
What mystifies this blogger is not so much the twisted reasons someone could enjoy such a song and message but how anyone at a university could participate in this day and age with cameras rolling. Even human swamp slugs know of political correctness or standards of acceptance and decency. College students? Heaven help us!
SCENES FROM THE CALIFORNIA COAST
MUNCHING, Highway 1 Hearst Ranch
A WORD TO THE WISE?
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit in it.
Maurice Chevalier
See you down the trail.
I have known a number of SAE's (weren't you one?) and was appalled at this story. Kudos to former Senator David Boren, the current president of the university, for saying in front of cameras "we don't need your kind around here, just leave, I might even pay the bus fare."
ReplyDeleteI'm reminiscing, seeing those photos of yours.
And I love the Chevalier quote!
No, I am not an SAE. My fraternity was among the first to integrate. In recent years it has advanced training programs and operating principles that embrace, religious, ethnic and sexual identity diversity and gender relationships. We are not perfect, 18-22 year olds can make mistakes but I served our national board four years and was impressed with the extraordinary gains made in re-defining the role and purpose of a fraternity int he 21st Century.
ReplyDeleteI was never a member of a frat. As Groucho once said," I wouldn't want to belong to any club that would have me."
ReplyDeleteMy best friend is the chair of the chem dept at the university up the hill; what I hear from him does not inidcate that students are more enlightened than in our day. Perhaps more techno aware, at least when they are not drunk.
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid humans are as they have always been: no better than they have to be. Doesn't stop us from hoping for better.
ReplyDeleteLove the Chevalier quote. :-)
Pearl