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Some white students at the University of California San Diego decided to double down on expressing their racial hatred even as the derogatory "Compton Cookout" party, in honor of Black History Month, continues to be investigated. Despite the national outrage that the party triggered, the student-run television program aired a segment that mocked blacks protesting the party.
In response, the university pulled funds from ALL student-run media programs.
The head of the school's student government froze funding for print media outlets last week after one, The Koala, ran a student TV episode calling black students ungrateful and using a derogatory term for blacks. He also pulled the student-run television station off the air.
Associated Students President Utsav Gupta suspended funding for about 15 of the school's 33 student-funded media outlets to avoid the impression that he was judging content. He said Koala or any other outlet may continue to publish, just without student funding.
"Some students are drawing the incorrect conclusion that this is muzzling free speech," he said in an interview.
"The right to free speech does not equate to a right to funding."
Source: University TV show mocking blacks sparks freeze, AP, Washington Post
The University of California San Diego student body of 29,000 is only 2 percent black.
The Koala, which has a reputation for airing offensive material, made fun of reaction to an off-campus fraternity party Feb. 15 that urged partygoers to dress as ghetto stereotypes to commemorate Black History Month.
Gupta, who called the program "deeply offensive and hurtful," said the segment aired without approval from the two station managers. That's a violation of the student-run television charter, prompting him to pull the station off the air.
A group of state legislators has demanded an investigation into who was behind the party, including possible student suspensions and revocation of fraternity permits.
Source: AP
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By: Montana on 2/25/2010 12:25AM
You real can’t take these uneducated UCSD white trailer trash anywhere. This is what happens when more than one of these guys puts their minds together.
Oh, where exactly was a speech going on? Thats right, no where, but keep plucking that chicken.
Or as carri said "It’s a plot by the fundamentalist rightwing party of tyranny called Republicans. They foment hate, they sneer, they make excuses for their behavior and blame everyone else. They advocate the supremacy of their America – a lily-white America. They are scared and frightened becuase (gasp) a black man has been elected to the White House. They are losing conrol and like cornered animals, they are lashing out. This is the national leadership from whom these studants take their cues."
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By: Benito Juarez on 2/25/2010 1:24PM
I will tell you what I have seen these last few days, I saw people from different backgrounds, my children, my brothers and sisters come together in solidarity, and got the message heard.
This reminds me of a parable from the good book where a Levite and Priest come upon a man who fell among thieves and they both individually passed by and didn't stop to help him. Finally a man of another race came by, he got down from his beast, decided not to be compassionate by proxy and got down with the injured man, administered first aid, and helped the man in need. Jesus ended up saying, this was the good man, this was the great man, because he had the capacity to project the "I" into the "thou," and to be concerned about his brother.
You see, the Levite and the Priest were afraid, they asked themselves, "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But then the Good Samaritan came by. And he reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
That's the question before us. The question is not, "If I stop to help my brother in need, what will happen to me?" The question is, "If I do not stop to help my brother, what will happen to him or her?" That's the question.
God bless all my brothers and sister that stood side by side with our brothers and sisters in need, when you saw a wrong you tried to correct it, you may argue the methods but not the reasons. I know God will not discriminate by country of origin, our sex, our orientation, color of our skin, or our religion as men do.
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By: lesboogie77 on 2/25/2010 11:03PM
The funniest thing about this is we will have a fit when these white students make fun of what our people do and look foolish at doing everyday.
So, its wrong for them to mock how foolish black males look with their pants hanging past their testicles, holding thir pants trying to walk BUT its okay for our brothers to look this foolish on purpose?
It's wrong for them to mock how unclassy females look wearing too-tight clothing with wild colored hair and nails BUT its okay for our sisters to look like this on purpose?
WHEN ARE THE DOUBLE STANDARDS GOING TO STOP?!
Some of us make fun of white people all the time but when they make a black joke we get sensitive and heartbroken?
Cut the crap people and grow up!!!
Yea, I said it AND I'm a black male!!!
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