Outrage over Texas college MLK party

[michaels]

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0125071mlk1.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 sophomore 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 titled "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 despicable. 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)

 

[waggy]

well..at least they were celebrating MLK day! err..yeah.

 

[glenn beck]

In Texas???? *shock*

 

[her209]

Don't mess with Texas...

 

[Ronstang]

So what? How is this a big deal?

 

[meltdown75]

heh. i saw this a couple hours ago. some of those pics are funny. lame, but funny.

 

[chrisms]

Was this on school property? If not the NAACP can bite me, it does not seem malicious to me. I used to have 40 and fried chicken day with my friends, doesn't make me a bigot.

 

[Tom]

assuming Mr Petz is telling the truth, no reason given to doubt him, doesn't seem to be anything news worthy about it. Just friends messing with their friend.

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: Ronstang
So what? How is this a big deal?

It was a party with a bunch of white kids making fun of black people.

Don't you remember, you can only make fun of white people. Making fun of black people is against the law.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

I don't see the problem here i remember we had ghetto themed parties in college. I don't think it was rascist.

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: Ronstang
So what? How is this a big deal?

It was a party with a bunch of white kids making fun of black people.

Don't you remember, you can only make fun of white people. Making fun of black people is against the law.

Phew. White Trash night is still on!

 

[Kirby]

Freedom of Assembly?

 

[JS80]

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: Ronstang
So what? How is this a big deal?

It was a party with a bunch of white kids making fun of black people.

Don't you remember, you can only make fun of white people. Making fun of black people is against the law.

You can make fun of asians too because they won't fight back.

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: Ronstang
So what? How is this a big deal?

It was a party with a bunch of white kids making fun of black people.

Don't you remember, you can only make fun of white people. Making fun of black people is against the law.

Phew. White Trash night is still on!

Its called "Jerry Springer Night", thank you very much!

 

[DaShen]

It was at UT, the frat got disbanded

 

[glutenberg]

Originally posted by: JS80

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: Ronstang
So what? How is this a big deal?

It was a party with a bunch of white kids making fun of black people.

Don't you remember, you can only make fun of white people. Making fun of black people is against the law.

You can make fun of asians too because they won't fight back.

We figure we'll just try to outbreed the other races.

 

[j00fek]

love dem fo o'z

 

[Unheard]

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: Ronstang
So what? How is this a big deal?

It was a party with a bunch of white kids making fun of black people.

Don't you remember, you can only make fun of white people. Making fun of black people is against the law.

Winner winner, chicken...errr....mashed potato dinner.

 

[DaShen]

Originally posted by: glutenberg

Originally posted by: JS80

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: Ronstang
So what? How is this a big deal?

It was a party with a bunch of white kids making fun of black people.

Don't you remember, you can only make fun of white people. Making fun of black people is against the law.

You can make fun of asians too because they won't fight back.

We figure we'll just try to outbreed the other races.

OH SNAP

 

[Ronstang]

Originally posted by: DaShen
It was at UT, the frat got disbanded

Why? That is completely stupid. Just goes to show how far overboard the stupid PC crowd have gone. If Black people are offended then are they offended by Black people dressing the same? I think not. I didn't see anything in those pics that could be construed as anything other than a party with theme costumes. If Blacks don't like it maybe they had better clean house and project a different image as a community. I see idiots dressed like this all the time and my only thought is they are morons, regardless of race or color. If anything MLK would be appalled at the state of the Black culture/community as a whole today.

 

[Snuffaluffaguss]

The party is most recently making the news was at Tarleton State University, NOT UT-Austin

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: DaShen
It was at UT, the frat got disbanded

This wasn't at Tarleton State?

 

[LS20]

klan leader ronstang makes an appearance. thread disbands.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: glutenberg

Originally posted by: JS80

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: Ronstang
So what? How is this a big deal?

It was a party with a bunch of white kids making fun of black people.

Don't you remember, you can only make fun of white people. Making fun of black people is against the law.

You can make fun of asians too because they won't fight back.

We figure we'll just try to outbreed the other races.

How are you gonna do that when all your hot women end up with the white man or the black man?

 

[crownjules]

Originally posted by: glutenberg

Originally posted by: JS80

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: Ronstang
So what? How is this a big deal?

It was a party with a bunch of white kids making fun of black people.

Don't you remember, you can only make fun of white people. Making fun of black people is against the law.

You can make fun of asians too because they won't fight back.

We figure we'll just try to outbreed the other races.

In the end, it will come down to a battle between the Asians and the Hispanics. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!