Halloween In the Hood?
Here is a story from my neck of the woods… A Greek organization at Johns Hopkins University has been suspended for throwing a party that with racially insensitive connotations.
The Sigma Chi “Halloween in the Hood” Party was closed down early Sunday morning, and followed with protests from the JHU Black Student Union. Invitations on Facebook made reference to attendees being required to wear “regional clothing, like bling-bling, ice-ice, and hoochie hoops.”
This is not the first incident of its kind at a traditionally white university. Delta Sigma Phi and Beta Theta Pi at Auburn University held a Halloween party in 2001 with graphic images of fraternity members in blackface and other insensitive photos. They also faced punishment from the institution.
Behavior like this begs the question, has our generation at large made the significant improvements in race relations that most of us think it has? For this to have such blatantly racist promotion and activities, can we fairly make the same association with the people who attended? Further, if they genuinely didn’t think it was racist, just how far have we really come?
Published on October 30, 2006 at 9:08 pm.
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