"Being in a Fraternity and Being Stupid . . ." best essay/editorial I have read yet on SAE

[7wo7rees]

JJim Schutze is one of the best journalists in Dallas. mini bio courtesy of imdb: Jim Schutze was born on January 1, 1946 as James W. Schutze. He is a writer and producer, known for Bully (2001), Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story (1993) and The Starck Club (2015). He works for the alternative weekly in Dallas, The Dallas Observer.

From this morning:
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2015/03/sae_frat_boys_young_stupid.php

Schutze
Being in a Fraternity and Being Stupid Is Not a Legal Defense, But It's Often a Fact
Jim doesn't think Parker Rice's name should have been revealed. Oops.

snip:
The best picket sign I have seen in demonstrations here in Dallas, where the chant-leader and another guy on the bus are from, said, "Racism is Learned." No kidding. And the hard thing is that somewhere it has to be unlearned.
Some people writing about the OU/SAE fraternity incident can't resist going into that fraternity's confederate antebellum roots. But Derrick Clifton on identities.mic did a great piece a couple days ago listing all kinds of incidents, including some black-face parties arguably even more vile than the SAE bus chant scene, that have taken place in fraternities all over the country, north, south, east and west. It's really not about geography. It's about white people.

snip:
Look how they get themselves caught. I know they get the racism from their parents. But if you went to those very parents and said, "Let's you guys get drunk on a bus and let people make iPhone movies of you singing KKK songs," even the dumbest most racist morons among the parents would say, "Maybe not."
Young people are that stupid. They expose what their parents at least know to hide.

snip:
But for the sin of being young, drunk, really stupid and there, I don't want to see the rest of them named. I don't think they have to be. I believe they will turn this incident over in their minds for the rest of their lives. I know they will. It will be whispered on pillows to girlfriends and wives, muttered at campfires to fishing buddies, probably expensively explained to a shrink or two, and I firmly believe in the end it will be told as a saga of growth, awakening and courage, not just as a whiny little anecdote about how I got screwed.
The larger arc of history moves to the good in this, no matter how many awful moments we may find along the way. Young people should be allowed a chance to fly that arc if they can, not get nailed to the ground before they start.

and to the end:

I just wish. They're young. And I just wish.

Please read the whole editorial.

[7wo7rees]

1. kick up for consideration. nt

I hope this gets read and shared.

Being from North Dallas this episode has been especially painful along with everything else that has hit so hard this week.

Thanks

[7wo7rees]

2. one more kick. hope someone reads it. n/t

[hifiguy]

3. Kick

and man is this true:

"She told me I needed to remember that all young males newly away from home are idiots, regardless of race, creed, even regardless of I.Q. That's the scary thing about them. They're soooo stupid."

[7wo7rees]

4. thank you for reading. n/t

[FSogol]

5. K&R. n/t

[7wo7rees]

6. one last kkck, hoping someone cares