The most offensive Martin Luther King Jr. Day party pictures you'll see this year.

[ghostsofgiants]

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0125071mlk1.html

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.

Edit: Changed the subject line to something more noticeable.

[slj0101]

1. My "People Who Should Die in a Fire" list just grew exponentially.

:grr:

Edit- Accordine to the asshole on the front page, the party was not meant to offend anybody, yet he rails against being "politically correct." Fuck him.

[jpgray]

2. If that kitchen doesn't scream "well-to-do insular suburban hell," nothing does

There comes a point in racism where you just feel bad for how ignorant the perpetrators are.

[Left Is Write]

12. Actually, it screams crummy apartment to me.

[jpgray]

16. As a sometime resident of same, I'd say it's not that crummy

But very suburban. Feel like I'm back in Park Place estates in St Cloud.

[Rabrrrrrr]

33. And just look at the booze on the counter - total white shallow scum liquor.

[Shakespeare]

3. Tarleton State has LONG had a problem with white supremecists.

Way back when I was a reporter at Texas A&M, I covered the college after yet another dustup over their skull-and-bones-ish, quasi-KKK "Purple Poo" organzation (sadly, I'm serious about the name).

How sad to see that things haven't changed much. :-(

Edited to add a wiki link that mentions the Purple Poo (in case it sounded too ridiculous to believe). The "costumes" it mentions are purple KKK robes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarleton_State_University

[ChickMagic]

11. I'm a graduate of TSU

and safely back in the new, blue Dallas. I didn't participate in any of the organizations and nobody I hung with did either. Ew.

[Shakespeare]

19. I'll never forget covering that story...it was one long WTF?? moment.

And the pictures of the Purple Poo "costumes" (*cough* KKK robes *cough*)....completely fucked up and weird.

Glad you made it out alive & got back to big D! (I grew up there, went to JJ Pearce HS).

[ChickMagic]

21. I never saw them

I was in labs all the time and in the summers I went to the Moody campus in Galveston for my marine bio. I'm rather glad I didn't know while I was there. I did learn that you never, ever touched the handrails in the Ag building. They all dip snuff and spit it on the rails.

[Lautremont]

4. I looked at all the pictures.

Worst party ever, and not just for the lamebrained attempts at racist costuming. It just looks like the worst.

[Kajsa]

5. What in the hell do these kids know about

African-Americans?

Apparently, nothing- and it shows .

They wear their ignorance on their sleeves.

[HEyHEY]

6. Holy FUCK these are university students?

[Omphaloskepsis]

9. I would put my money on...

Trashy kids that don't want to get a job, they also don't want to go to school either. Just dumb trash sucking on the families teat while the do as little a possible to pass their classes and get fucked up every night.

[ghostsofgiants]

13. I dunno...

I'd kinda put my money on fratboy jock types. I've seen and heard that type do some really nasty things.

[Omphaloskepsis]

32. I was talking about fratboy jock types.

I just referred to them as trash.

[Kerrytravelers]

7. And this is our country's future.

:scared:

[KG]

8. is 'ignorance and hate 101' reqiured course at this college?

[WindRavenX]

10. Color me shocked--Texas?

:eyes:

[Gormy Cuss]

20. TSG also has photos from a similar party at UConn Law School.

A bunch of frigging future LAWYERS don't have enough sense to know this is over the racism line by a mile?

[WindRavenX]

27. Yeah, the NE can be pretty racist too

Boston is awful.

[Gormy Cuss]

35. There doesn't seem to be any particular geography that is immune.

In the SF bay area there's substantial racism in spite of the overall tolerance, even in San Francisco itself. Out where I live used to be the white flight zone so the subtle racism didn't surprise me but I was surprised at some of the stories I've heard from low income Latino and African-Americans in the city about living there. Weirdly reminiscent of some of the racism I observed in Boston, and frankly the racism level in Boston wasn't as high as that I've seen in some other cities. Places like Kansas City and Phoenix are every bit as racist but don't have the reputation. The other observation I've made is that people tend to be more openly racist in well heeled suburbs than in the older suburban areas and in cities. I think it's because those who live with diversity learn to zip their lips, even if their racism is just as deep.

[Lethe]

24. this is why i am moving to Canada

i'm tired of living with these type of ignorant bastards who continually fuck up the country

[Fuzz]

14. I was just now reading a freeper thread on this.

Found here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1773459/posts

Some snippets:

"featuring fried chicken, malt liquor and faux gang apparel. "I feel like there is no excuse for this type of ignorance"

He must be upset because they forgot the watermelons.

2 posted on 01/25/2007 9:33:51 AM EST by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)

Hey Mr. Elder, call me back with your whiny indignation the day you can convince your fellows to universally abandon the use of the N-word. Until then, you have no "outrage credibility" with me.

11 posted on 01/25/2007 9:38:18 AM EST by 50sDad (I respect other religions by allowing them the right to worship. But they still are wrong.)

In another picture, a student is dressed as Aunt Jemima and carries a gun.

That's just too damn funny!

12 posted on 01/25/2007 9:39:40 AM EST by RacerF150 (The United States is a safe haven for all cultures……except its own.)

Dam straight!
How can you have faux gang apparel and no faux Drive By Shootings. Plus not one Basketball was in sight.

(to boot, they didn't have enough 'Bling')

14 posted on 01/25/2007 9:41:20 AM EST by Condor51 (The demoncRATs don't want another 'Vietnam' - they want another Dien Bien Phu.)

Dr. King was totally about nonviolence."

Except when he beat up his white prostitutes.

15 posted on 01/25/2007 9:42:06 AM EST by ladyjane

Much, much more ignorant drivel from some idiot mother-fuckers over there, read if you can stomach it.

[jpgray]

15. Those poor assholes

x(

[ghostsofgiants]

17. Somehow I'm not surprised...

But still plenty disgusted.

[otherlander]

26. Heh...

"Silly me. I thought this thread was about a new political party named MLK."
Dumb bastards :rofl:

[Bunny]

18. Their mothers must be so proud.

Dickheads. :eyes:

[ohiosmith]

22. No doubt their mothers are proud. This shit is learned.

[bicentennial_baby]

23. And they drank shitty beer too, I see...

:puke:, on several counts...

[Shell Beau]

25. Somebody needs to slap that smile right off her face!

That is sickening!

[graywarrior]

28. Put them all on a bus to and let em loose dressed like that in NY.

[Dukkha]

29. or better yet Compton

their bullet riddled bodies will turn up in a park

[graywarrior]

30. I'll drive.

[JackBeck]

31. Two Halloweens ago my sister threw a costume party.

Her best friend from law school came in black face, holding a bucket of chicken, drinking from a bottle of grape soda. He turned to me and said, "Your father would have been proud." I almost punched him.

Let's just say he was ignore by everyone for the entire evening.

[Shell Beau]

34. I was at a Halloween party a couple of years ago where

a guy came dressed as the KKK. I wished so bad he would have gotten pulled over by a black cop that night. What assholes people like that are!

[JackBeck]

41. Wouldn't that have been a thing to see.

I'm amazed at how we still see racism bred so deep in the people we think we know.

[Rabrrrrrr]

36. Holy shit! There's Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity stuff in those photos -

that's my fraternity. One of the first (nationally) to integrate, and quite possibly the most progressive fraternity in the country.

As I look at those pictures, I wonder if it was actually held at a Lambda Chi Alpha house.

If so, I'm writing a letter. That house needs its charter revoked.

Now I'm really pissed.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

37. Check out the thread in LBN.

And the responses.

:puke:

[ghostsofgiants]

38. No, I'd rather not put up with that type of douchebaggery while I'm ill.

[Shakespeare]

39. linkee, please n/t

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

40. I'm sorry, I meant LBN.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2702904

[datasuspect]

42. their just college kids making college prank

these people become corporate supervisors and mid-level managment, that's a scary thought.

people say the children are our future . . .