jorgelito, I knew
axl rose would find some way to stay in the limelight.
seriously, i'm don't think i'm poor white trash, but some could make an argument for the "hick redneck" part - but i don't really feel offended by the terms. Then again, I grew up in suburbia, so I'm not really at the far end of the hick thing.
My cousins are. They might actually be offended to be called a hick. Interesting, I'll have to ask.
gilda i agree totally - i think. if it were up to me, based on the limited amount of information i have about this one incident, i don't know that i'd take the actions that the university has. no question the bsu has the right to voice / file a complaint.
i actually do think it would make a difference if the sponsoring frat had been a traditional black frat like alpha phi alpha, or if the sigma chi frat had thrown it together with a black frat. (i'd pay to see the guys from sigma chi approaching the alphas about that idea
)its never really going to play well to have a bunch of white kids making fun of black culture, particularly in a city full of black people.
i wonder what the reaction would have been if alpha phi alpha threw a trailer park party, and really took it to extremes of making fun of caricatures of white culture in the middle of a rural white area. i'd bet that wouldn't cause any problems
/sarcasm