Meanwhile, in "Post-Racial America"...

Today as I logged on to one of my various avenues of social media consumption, I encountered a video of members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon chanting on a bus "there'll never be no niggers in SAE." This sparked another call to a social action movement similar to what the black Greek community did in response to VH-1's "Sorority Sisters." Well, readers, I didn't take part in that first movement, and I didn't take part in this new one either, but I will commend the University of Oklahoma and the administration of SAE for their swift response to this incident in closing the chapter at Oklahoma and suspending the members of the chapter while promising a potentially stricter response after an investigation. The reason why I didn't take part in this movement is because despite what present day media will tell you; we are not living in a post-racial America. *Plies voice* "Ain't no post-racial America, bih!"

I've commented before (quite possibly in another posting) that I would much rather a blatant racist than the ones who continue to push a system that was only made for their benefit and refuse to acknowledge that it was. Yeah, the Klu Klux Klan isn't parading around with the prominence that it once was but just because the white hoods have been turned in for badges, suits, and political

Office...*Plies voice* "Ain't no post-racial

America, bih!"

But let's not be fooled here, why should we commend the actions of the University for doing what they were supposed to do? Did they really mean it? I mean, LSU refused to prohibit the flying of the purple and gold variation of the confederate flag, but they quickly distanced themselves from it, because that's what they were supposed to do.   What if that's how they really felt? You can't afford to be the Klu Klux Klan in this day and age without being labeled. You can't afford to have the major constituency of an athletics program worth hundreds of millions angry at you. You can't afford to belittle an institution that turns black brothers and sisters against their own and who's affiliation with makes them superior than the ones who went to Langston. 

This past week's episode showed us that racial problem in America is one that even the likes of Oliva Pope cannot fix, but are we really surprised that racists still exist 50 years after Selma? Ain't no post-racial America, bih!