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Frat that declared 'there will never be a n*gg*r in SAE' hazed black student to death
byShaun King
Four years ago Cornell University closed down their chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Many members of the fraternity left the school altogether. They had just killed a man.
George Desdunes, an aspiring doctor, was a 19-year-old sophomore from Brooklyn, New York, and the son of Haitian immigrants. His hands and feet were tied with duct tape and zip ties. Blindfolded, he was given so much alcohol that he died within a few hours of the hazing. All alone and completely unconscious, he was found dead by a college cleaning crew the following morning. His mother filed a $25 million wrongful death suit in the case.
On its own merit, the hazing death of George Desdunes is tragic, but when viewed in light of recent racism that has been exposed within the SAE fraternity, one has to wonder if George Desdunes was treated any differently because he was black. When a popular fraternity chant song has violent lines about lynching black men, everything should be on the table.
SAE members from the University of Oklahoma were recently recorded chanting:
There will never be a n*gg*r in SAE.
There will never be a n*gg*r in SAE.
You can hang him from a tree, but he can never sign with me
There will never be a n*gg*r in SAE.
A month before this chant was recorded, the same chant was being reported as "the most popular" at the same fraternity at the University of Texas. Before this, the University of Oklahoma SAE "house mother" was recorded using racial slurs.
Since 2000, Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapters have been cited for egregious racism at Clemson, Washington University, Oglethorpe, Baylor, Valdosta State, and more.
Racism is not just a nuisance, it's dangerous. It devalues an entire race of people and makes their lives significantly more disposable to othersbe it a white fraternity or police officers around the country.
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Don't get me wrong, I do find what they did reprehensible.
They are entitled to say what they choose; just as I am.
Someone brought up code of conduct and student safety.
Which after giving it some thought; if left unaddressed could get ugly.
Lets say for the sake of argument one of the students that
participated were to get severly beaten on campus;
would the school be held liable for his safety.
What if that frat house was fire bombed.
Everytime I see photos of my people that were lynched.
It saddens me to my very core.
Also another thing to think about where were they?
Were they on a privately chartered bus?
If yes; then where do we draw the line?
Maybe I am overracting but damn its kind of like
big brother watching all of the time.
Take for example Donald Sterling; was he a douche for what he said. Yes and no; it was the insecurities of an
old man. Coming out during a private conversation
with his on payroll prostitute.
Do I believe Donald Sterling to be a racist?
Emphatically yes, because he discriminated against
people of color when it came to housing.
You see everyone was up in arms about the NSA spying on its citizens. But yet it is ok when on an individual level
when private acts a publicly leaked. If we expect the government to respect our privacy, then privacy
should be respected on an individual level as well.
Lets just say for a moment we were having a conversation
having a few drinks. I was privately taping the whole thing.
You said to me " man the other night on my way home in a cab I saw a hooker I picked her up and she gave me a hummer on the way home".
Lets just say I decided to send a copy of that video to
your wife, employer etc.
You tell me how would you feel.
Privacy and freedom of speech should be respected; because if not it has truly become what is described in 1984.