Racist Bammers...Again

[AUChizad]

http://blog.al.com/tuscaloosa/2011/10/ua_removes_offensive_language.html

UA removes racial slurs chalked on campus building
Published: Wednesday, October 12, 2011, 7:02 AM
Ben Flanagan, al.com

TUSCALOOSA, Alabama -- University of Alabama President Robert Witt addressed Tuesday some offensive comments that were chalked on the side of Moody Music Building by an unknown person.

In a written statement, Witt wrote the language "could be particularly upsetting to African Americans."

The Crimson White reports that someone chalked racial slurs and pictures on the archway in front of the building during the day on Tuesday.

The report says witnesses saw vandalism depicting a figure hanging from a noose along with several racial slurs.

The CW report says the chalking included the phrase from a Clifford Joseph Trahan (Johnny Rebel) song that includes a racial epithet.

The chalked comments were removed as soon as they were discovered, Witt said, but he said he wants to emphasize that UA finds the behavior "totally unacceptable" and "strongly condemns any use of these words on campus.

Witt said the university will make every effort to identify and punish those responsible.

"This University respects and values each member of our community," he wrote "I hope that every decision will reflect that commitment."

The university also announced a new 24-hour hotline allowing students and others to anonymously report incidents of discrimination, harassment or hazing, the CW report says. The hotline number is 205-348-4258 (HALT).

[Townhallsavoy]

Isolated incident. 

That music building has never experienced racism before. 

[Token]

It's Ole Miss week.  Someone is obviously trying to prepare the players for what they will endure this Saturday.

[GH2001]

It's Ole Miss week.  Someone is obviously trying to prepare the players for what they will endure this Saturday.

Oh, so it was Ole Miss where George Wallace stood? I never knew.

[Token]

Oh, so it was Ole Miss where George Wallace stood? I never knew.

Did George Wallace stand in the doorway before 1981?  If so, it isn't relevant.   Sorry. 

[AUChizad]

Did George Wallace stand in the doorway before 1981?  If so, it isn't relevant.   Sorry.

[Kaos]

Oh, so it was Ole Miss where George Wallace stood? I never knew.

Don't start up with George. 

GCW was the man. 

[War Eagle!!!]

Did George Wallace stand in the doorway before 1981?  If so, it isn't relevant.   Sorry.

+3

[GH2001]

Did George Wallace stand in the doorway before 1981?  If so, it isn't relevant.   Sorry.

Only if he didn't play teh foosball.

[Pell City Tiger]

It hasn't been too long ago (within the past year) that some updyke was roaming around campus scribbling the N word on sidewalks and streets. There was a quick reaction from the Black Teachers Coalition (or some such) demanding the university require sensitivity training for all students. Someone associated with the university stepped in & shut them up, because not a word has been uttered about it since.

They really don't like the colored folk over there, unless they can run wif da foosball.