White student portraying Obama in blackface riles campus

[shain from kane]

FARGO, N.D. --North Dakota State University is investigating complaints about a campus skit in which a white student in blackface portrayed Barack Obama receiving a lap dance.

The same skit, part of a charity fundraiser held at a campus theater, also featured a depiction of cowboys having sex with each other, witnesses told The Forum newspaper, which first reported the backlash Friday.

"We're trying to find out the right approaches for accountability, but at the same time try to heal wounds that have occurred and allow the campus to move ahead," Janna Stoskopf, NDSU's dean of students, told The Associated Press on Friday.
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People who attended it said a pageant contestant from Saddle and Sirloin dressed as a woman from the Internet video "I Got a Crush on Obama" and performed a strip tease for another student, who was wearing dark makeup and an afro wig.

In the background, two male students dressed as cowboys simulated anal sex while holding an Obama sign that one student ripped at the conclusion of the 30-second performance, the Forum reported.
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Josh Reimnitz, who is the NDSU student body president and saw the skit, called it "totally tasteless" and said he and other audience members were shocked.

"Honestly, I still don't know what the intention of the skit was," he said. "It was very silent, and there were some boos. People were looking at each other, not knowing how to act."
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Edited to add reference to my source.

http://www.bnd.com/430/story/293616.html



It's Fargo, Jake.

[SoonerPride]

1. "Honestly, I still don't know what the intention of the skit was"

uh, I do.

It's called hate.

[Swamp Rat]

2. His goose is cooked.

:D

[helderheid]

3. Holy fuck is ignorance UGLY.

[Cooley Hurd]

4. Fargo? That's BIg Eddie's back yard...

I hope he talks about it on Monday...:grr:

[Ysabel]

5. i feel queasy (n/t)...

[Bobbieo]

6. North Dakota State?? And you may wonder why Native Americans

get angry when sports mascots dance around and beat drums during half-time in feathers and war paint!

[shain from kane]

7. There had been an earlier complaint on just that topic. From the original article,

"The skit follows a complaint filed against a sorority at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, where guests wore Indian costumes and red paint on their faces and bodies.

"This falls into the same category," Rice said of the NDSU skit. "It's just as bad.""

[Ysabel]

9. i understand and am upset about that as well (n/t)...

[jwirr]

8. I guess that is one University that I would hesitate to send my son

or daughter to.

[Joe Chi Minh]

10. I begin to understand how Abu Ghraib and the whole Iraq abomination happened.

[JoFerret]

11. .

.

[SaveAmerica]

13. Kudos for changing that, I still had the page open from earlier tonight and just gone back to read

responses. Tonight can be the night we all can start taking care of one another.

[apocalypsehow]

12. Disgusting.

:thumbsdown: