Racist, Stupid or both...

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

While the second option is a given since it's Tarleton State, the others are certainly possibilities.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive...25071mlk1.html

Outrage Over Texas College MLK Day Party
Event featured Aunt Jemima, gang apparel, fried chicken, malt liquor

JANUARY 25--Students at a Texas college threw a Martin Luther King Jr. Day party that featured attendees wearing gang apparel and Afro wigs, carrying malt liquor, handguns, and fried chicken, and even one woman dressed as Aunt Jemima. Photos of the January 15 event were discovered on a Facebook.com page by a Tarleton State University sop re who heads the school's NAACP chapter. A selection of party photos can be found on the following pages. When he discovered the images, Donald Ray Elder told TSG, he sent an e-mail to Tarleton student Jeremy Pelz, on whose Facebook page the photos were placed in a folder led "MLK." In a reply e-mail, Pelz (seen in the picture at right) told Elder that he would rename the folder in which the photos were placed "so it does not bring any disrespect to Mr. King." Pelz noted that the party was started a few years earlier "because one of best friends is black or African American, whichever you deem politically correct, to be his day not to dishonor him." He added, "So I do apologize if you felt any disrespect because none was intended." School officials have launched an investigation into the party and the university's president, Dennis P. McCabe, has denounced the photos as de able. In a subsequent post, Pelz--who has yanked the party photos from his Facebook page--stated that the party was not meant to be "racist or discriminating." (18 pages)

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

And let me be the first to say it:



I'd hit it with butter and syrup.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

A picture is worth a thousand words, and I wouldn't even attempt to try.

[Spurminator]

Looks like the party had a huge turnout....

What is there to investigate, though?

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

Stupid. Very, very, very stupid. I can understand how the idea of it might have been funny to these guys, but to actually do it, take pictures, and put them on the web? Very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very stupid.

I understand Tarlton has offered Norcal a full ride though.

[Kori Ellis]

What black person would wear this?

[MajorMike]

e Lee?

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

There were gay sharecroppers back in the day.

[Samurai Jane]

What a load of ignorant crap!

[Extra Stout]

You mean inbred East Texas crackers did something stupid? I'm shocked.

[rayray2k8]

This is just ing stupid! All these kids care about is getting wasted!
But seriously, I see ing white kids try to dress like this now a days as well as mexicans.

Do they look anything different from this???

[ashbeeigh]

There's a reason why you have restricted facebook profiles and albums. So this doesn't happen.

[101A]

I don't see what the big deal is. They had a theme party mocking our culture. I think it was pretty funny and you have to be a pretty big ing crybaby to be offended by this.....it was meant to poke fun and have a good time. I seriously doubt it was in any way meant to offend. But like always in this world people will and moan.

No worse that Pimps and Hoes and toga parties and all that other .

If it wasn't in East Texas you'd probably have a point.

True Story:

In 1991 the MAYOR of Madisonville, Texas told me he could solve ALL of the problems in the country if we could just change ONE policy...

"DEEEEEESEGRAGATION" he said. "It's ruined this country".

There IS no other word than the "N" word for African Americans in East Texas.

[Kori Ellis]

I don't see what the big deal is. They had a theme party mocking our culture. I think it was pretty funny and you have to be a pretty big ing crybaby to be offended by this.....it was meant to poke fun and have a good time. I seriously doubt it was in any way meant to offend. But like always in this world people will and moan.

No worse that Pimps and Hoes and toga parties and all that other .

I thought they were making it a big deal because it was for MLK Day. If it was just a regular theme party, it probably wouldn't be newsworthy.

[Spurminator]

I wouldn't call Stephenville East Texas... It's much more similar to West Texas towns than those East of 45.

[Samurai Jane]

I lived in San Angelo for 4 years. Considered west Texas, but the same racist at ude exists there. I think I even read in the paper once that a black guy was killed for having an interracial relationship there not long after we moved to San Antonio. I told my husband that it looked like we moved just in time.

[Extra Stout]

I wouldn't call Stephenville East Texas... It's much more similar to West Texas towns than those East of 45.

Oops. I should focus more closely on reading comprehension.

[ALVAREZ6]

re ed.

[ALVAREZ6]

I lose penis contests

[ponky]

doesn't matter that it's east texas, same stuff happens all the time at u.t. austin with the frat boys...i've seen black *culture* parties, drunk border mexican parties, 9/11 arab parties, seems like those boys get in trouble every year for doing something stupid...and ignorant.

[timvp]

The pictures were damn funny. Although I don't know many black people who wear t-shirts that say "I Love Chicken".

[slayermin]

I see wiggers all the time. What are you gonna do?

Probably in bad taste considering it was on MLK day.

[TheSanityAnnex]

Like Kori said, the only thing that could be considered a problem was the timing of the event.

[Nbadan]

...The black guys must have been busy sleeping with the white women...

[phyzik]

You cant be just racist, racist are inherantly stupid as well.... However you can be just stupid.... which these guys are.