Posts Tagged ‘KKK’
Inkonsequential KKK still holds rallies? Hrmph
The Ku Klux Klan protested before a University of Mississippi and LSU game today. The focus of the Ku Klux Klan’s protest was a line that is chanted at the end of the University of Mississippi’s fight song: From Dixie with Love. The line that is chanted is, “The South will Rise Again.”…
The chant has been deemed racist and offensive by the many African American students who attend the University of Mississippi. In fact, the chant has become so troublesome, that University of Mississippi Chancellor, Dan Jones had ordered students to stop chanting. After they continued chanting, he ordered the song From Dixie with Love to cease being played. The Ku Klux Klan came out to rally in lieu of the chant “The South Will Rise Again”….
As if there were any doubt that the chant was associated with racism, the Ku Klux Klan verified Chancellor Jones’ statements referring to the symbolism associated with the chant. In attendance with the KKK, was the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan grand titan, Shane Tate. Shane Tate had confirmed the KKK’s presence at today’s game in an E-Mail message to the Daily Reveille. It read, “We are coming to Ole Miss to say enough is enough on attacking our Christian, southern heritage and culture, and it’s time for every person to have a right to freedom of speech.”
One of the best ridicules of the KKK I’ve ever seen:
It’s been many years since I first watched and enjoyed this movie (Bustin Loose), and I recommend it. Richard Pryor’s performance might surprise you.
University Hospital fires 3 paramedics over KKK hazing incident
Three paramedics at Newark’s University Hospital were fired this week after grainy images taken by a cellphone camera surfaced showing two student interns garbed in white sheets to look like robes of the Ku Klux Klan.
Officials at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, which operates the hospital, and its emergency medical services unit, called the episode “ugly and abhorrent,” and “not be tolerated at any level.”
University president William F. Owen, who disclosed details of the incident on Friday, said one of the paramedics offered to resign, but was terminated instead on Monday. Two others were subsequently fired on Thursday.
“You don’t walk away from something like this,” he said, clearly angry…
Officials said none of those involved was a person of color, and the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office said it was unaware of the incident and was not currently investigating.
Just kids having fun, right? Not in my life.
If your culture, your personal ethics, finds racism acceptable, then you make excuses for racist behavior. I know I’m a hard-ass about bigotry; but, corollary to the preceding sentence is – if your personal, ethical philosophy finds racism unacceptable, then you don’t excuse racist behavior.
You don’t ignore it and hope it will go away on its own. Because it never will.
