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Students and the world are outraged after the University of Oklahoma's fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter chanted the racist slurs about African-Americans and lynching in a video that went viral Monday, March 8.
According to the NPR, the national office of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity has decided to closed the OU chapter and suspend its members. In the video below, you can see members of the frat dressed in suits, chanting "There will never be a n----r at SAE."
A video posted by David Smith (@soonerdave25) on Mar 8, 2015 at 9:02pm PDT
OU's president, David Boren released a statement on the university's Facebook page that read:
To those who have misused their free speech in such a reprehensible way, I have a message for you. You are disgraceful. You have violated all that we stand for. You should not have the privilege of calling yourselves “Sooners.” Real Sooners are not racist. Real Sooners are not bigots. Real Sooners believe in equal opportunity. Real Sooners treat all people with respect. Real Sooners love each other and take care of each other like family members.
Effective immediately, all ties and affiliations between this university and the local SAE chapter are hereby severed. I direct that the house be closed and that members will remove their personal belongings from the house by midnight tomorrow. Those needing to make special arrangements for possessions shall contact the dean of students.
All of us will redouble our efforts to create the strongest sense of family and community. We vow that we will be an example to the entire country of how to deal with this issue. There must be zero tolerance for racism everywhere in our nation.
President Boren
According to ABC, Boren revealed that he couldn't sleep after the young men chanted the hurtful song on a bus. Boren said he was "sickened by the video" and "I couldn't sleep after that."
So far students and other outraged locals have banded together in prayer and also requested the fraternity building be demolished.
It looks like the SAE house has been vandalized. One side of the house reads something like "tear it down." @OUDaily pic.twitter.com/dZebbDQT2Y — Dana Branham (@danabranham) March 9, 2015
Last night, students gathered to pray over the campus following the racist frat incident: https://t.co/7PfylgkPy8 pic.twitter.com/Hu5TzXrIw8 — OU Daily (@OUDaily) March 9, 2015
Since the video leaked, Twitter has been in an uproar!
You want irony? Police are currently surrounding the #SAE house in Oklahoma for "protection" while we're in the streets protesting for ours.
— Common Black Girl (@CommonBlackGirI) March 9, 2015
So #SAE Frat members have to move out of their house on their national Founders' Day. Now that's funny! — Willie Belafonte (@HonorableAF) March 9, 2015
RT @SeanLDurham: #SAE don't want us in their frat and want us "hanging from trees" - but over at Kappa Alpha Psi https://t.co/SgX4hbRZdh
— jamalbryant (@jamalhbryant) March 9, 2015
#SAE Frat members moving out. pic.twitter.com/pns84QYAyO — Wendell Edwards (@KOCOwendell) March 9, 2015
OU Pres wants frat members to meet w/ African American student leaders and personally apologize to them in his office #SAE
— NBC BLK (@NBCBLK) March 9, 2015
Those #SAE frat boys are being punished for being caught, not for what they did. Yea, I said it. — DNLee (@DNLee5) March 9, 2015
All I know is that #SAE chant looked real ... traditional.
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) March 9, 2015
My date to my first #SAE FORMAL. Don't let the mistake of one group alter your outlook on everyone . #SAElovesyou pic.twitter.com/BmrVXWJF1C — David Marler (@bballfinatic52) March 9, 2015
Please stop blurring the face of the dude leading the song. He's proud & we must make sure he gets the proper credit and attention. #SAE
— Michelle Beadle (@MichelleDBeadle) March 9, 2015
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