Over the past several weeks many racist act have not gone unnoticed at the University of California at San Diego. It started out with some white fraternity guys throwing a party which they named the Compton Cookout. Essentially the theme of the party encouraged party-goers to dress “ghetto”, which as they described included wearing chains, cheap clothes, gold teeth, starting fights and speaking very loudly. Once confronted by the University community, you would think the fraternity boys would apologize and at least pretend to be ignorant. But noooooo. They create an event on Facebook calling for another Compton Cookout. Incredible.

If that wasn’t enough, emails and notes were found referencing lynching and that “they” (people of color) were ungrateful n-word.  To top it all off a noose was found in the library, in which a female student later confessed to putting there. She claimed that she had no idea that it would be problematic.

Wow. Now I know where Fox News should recruit for interns. They are unapologetic and proud of their bigotry.

On the other hand many of the students of color and white allies at the University responded with calm but purposeful action. They held University officials accountable to take some long needed action as the enrollment rates of students and faculty of color hit abysmal levels. The University agreed to take action to many of the demands.

I should not be surprised at such outwards acts of racial defiance. That’s some of my own white privilege that gets in the way of seeing things as they are, not as I would like them to be. White privilege makes it easier  to look at the racist behavior of some white frat boys as immature stupidity instead of first going to the place of the fear and anger that many of the students of color must be experiencing.

Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh get ready because you have some serious competition headed your way.