Update on UCSD “Compton Cookout”
February 22nd, 2010 | Published in Uncategorized | 3 Comments
If anyone would like to see the original facebook invite click here
Check out this video report where they found Compton lynching in the student run tv lounge…
A reunion of black alumni of UC San Diego is scheduled for this week amid controversy over a ghetto-themed, off-campus party and a satirical program aired on the closed-circuit campus television station that defended the party.
The alumni gathering is scheduled for Friday evening at The Stage @ The Pub at the La Jolla campus and is being put together by the Black Alumni Council and the UCSD Alumni Association, according to the university’s Web site.
Last weekend’s party that sparked the controversy was billed as the “Compton Cookout,” and an invitation urged party-goers to dress and act “ghetto.” The school’s Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity has denied media reports that it sponsored the off-campus party.
When the invitation was posted on Facebook, it drew fire, especially from civil rights groups and black students, who are about 2 percent of the 29,000 enrolled on the campus, compared to 6.7 percent of the state’s population.
San Diego 6 has reported plans for a second Compton Cookout, scheduled for March.
The Black Student Union declared a “racial state of emergency” after the student-run campus TV channel on Thursday aired a defense of the party by an irreverent student group.
According to the BSU, the broadcast called critics of the party ungrateful and used the n-word. Students searching for a tape of the broadcast found a scrap of cardboard in the TV station with the words “Compton lynching” written on it, further fueling tensions.
Student government shut down the student-run closed-circuit TV station while the incident is investigated, and about 200 students, mostly black, staged a march across the campus on Friday and met with school administrators to present a list of 32 demands that included more funding for minority recruitment and retention programs and creation of a safe space on campus for black students.
Tearful black students told administrators they do not feel safe on campus, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported. Chancellor Marye Anne Fox, who has called the party and TV show offensive, listened to the group’s concerns and agreed to implement many of their demands, but many of the students were still angry.
Vice Chancellor Penny Rue is scheduled to lead a “teach-in” on Wednesday from noon to 2 p.m. at the Price Center, exploring “why racially stereotyped events still occur and the impact of these events in our community,” according to the university’s Web site.
Rue issued a statement saying university staff are working on disciplinary processes with the national arm of the fraternity that allegedly sponsored the party, and are trying to determine whether organizers violated the school’s code of conduct.
“I understand that students of color, already finding themselves seriously under-represented on our campus, see this incident as an example of UC San Diego’s unwelcoming climate,” Rue said in a statement posted on the university’s Web site.
“The remedy for dangerous, offensive or extreme speech is more speech, not less,” Rue said in an effort to encourage students to participate in Wednesday’s forum.
Read more: http://www.sdnn.com/sandiego/2010-02-21/local-county-news/ucsd-race-tensions-rise-in-aftermath-of-compton-cookout-use-of-n-word##ixzz0gGLJmBZt
February 24th, 2010at 7:23 pm(#)
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.”
February 25th, 2010at 10:55 am(#)
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.
February 26th, 2010at 9:15 pm(#)
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