We're beginning to think that Jim Crow might be an
undergrad at the University of California-San Diego (UCSD). In the
aftermath of the incendiary "Compton Cookout" that was held there" days
ago a noose was found hanging on a shelf on the 7th floor of the UCSD's G... around 10PM on Thursday (Feb. 25).
may consider this incident a college prank gone too far. But what also
must be considered is UCSD's recent textbook example of why an Obama
White House does not mean suddenly we are living in a "post-racial"
society.
On February 15 (President's Day), and to mock Black History Month,
students attended a "Compton Cookout." The event's Facebook invite
included suggestions that women come dressed as "ghetto chicks" who "have short, nappy hair, and usually wear cheap weave, usually in bad colors, such as purple or bright red."
While it was held off campus, UCSD officials quickly denounced the
event. But of course, members of a student humor magazine at UCSD
called The Koala defended the cookout, throwing in the N-word while
doing so.
But the real kicker, and a shining example of the slave mentality being alive and well in 2010, is that there is video of a jheri-curled race disgrace named "Jiggaboo Jones"--really, that is his name--claiming he organized the Compton Cookout. "What the f--k is wrong about lettin' everybody see what it's like t...," says Jones in one video.
Considering African-American's comprise only 2% of UCSD's student
population, students walking out of a "teach-in" sponsored by the
university in response to the recent incident and not to mention that
there is a Part 2 of the Compton Cookout planned for March, race
relations on campus are tense.
Minstrelsy continues to rear its ugly head--usually around Halloween--and
it rightly reveals that these oppressive stereotypes continue to
thrive. Only tackling these stereotypes and prejudices, on both
sides--white, black and everything in between--will further progress in
race relations, on and off campus. In the meanwhile, someone get
Jiggaboo Jones a copy of a Spike Lee film called "Bamboozled."
