UCLA students protest after partygoers wear blackface at 'Kanye'-themed frat party, A "Kanye Western"-themed fraternity affair at UCLA is causing an uproar for its ancestral overtones afterwards some partygoers showed up cutting blackface.
Thrown by Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and Alpha Phi sorority, acceptance who abounding the affair Tuesday wore billowing clothes, dressed like the Kardashians and some wore blackface, the Daily Bruin reported.
After photographs of the affair alike on amusing media, acceptance bidding apropos that the organizations' accomplishments were racist and mocked atramentous culture, reigniting the amusing media hashtag BlackBruinsMatter.
Student Hanan Worku said she was aghast by the affair and the abridgement of acknowledgment from campus officials.
"Yes that's right, a frat absitively it would be accept to accept their associates echo a allotment of history that demoralized, mocked and dehumanized African Americans/ And bless while accomplishing it," she wrote on Facebook. "They showed up with their chains and braids with blimp butts for God knows what reason. True Bruin ethics amiright????!!!!! Not to acknowledgment all of this happened endure night which happened to be a allotment of Atramentous Bruin Welcome Week! Coincidence right??????"
Kelsee Thomas, a affiliate of the atramentous apprentice union, said acceptance confronted fraternity associates at the party. A fraternity affiliate apologized, but laughed if he was asked to address a letter to the group, she said.
"Everyone accumulate in apperception that artlessly because I go to one of the top ranked institutions in the country, doesn't beggarly I'm any further abroad from benightedness and racism as anyone else. They just adumbrate it abaft frat/sorority themes, bearding postings, and micro-aggressions," she said on Facebook. "This isn't over though."
UCLA said it is investigating the affair and talking to students.
"While we do not yet accept all the facts, the declared behavior is inconsistent with acceptable acumen as able-bodied as our attempt of community," UCLA told KNBC-TV.
Sigma Phi Epsilon's civic appointment says the UCLA fraternity has briefly abeyant activities as it investigates the incident.
"Building assorted and across-the-board communities is amount to our character as an organization, and we accept aught altruism for racist behavior," the organization's spokesman, Beaux Carriere, said in a statement. "Sigma Phi Epsilon will abide to plan with the university and UCLA association to investigate these claims and authority acceptance answerable for any inappropriate behavior."
Thrown by Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and Alpha Phi sorority, acceptance who abounding the affair Tuesday wore billowing clothes, dressed like the Kardashians and some wore blackface, the Daily Bruin reported.
After photographs of the affair alike on amusing media, acceptance bidding apropos that the organizations' accomplishments were racist and mocked atramentous culture, reigniting the amusing media hashtag BlackBruinsMatter.
Student Hanan Worku said she was aghast by the affair and the abridgement of acknowledgment from campus officials.
"Yes that's right, a frat absitively it would be accept to accept their associates echo a allotment of history that demoralized, mocked and dehumanized African Americans/ And bless while accomplishing it," she wrote on Facebook. "They showed up with their chains and braids with blimp butts for God knows what reason. True Bruin ethics amiright????!!!!! Not to acknowledgment all of this happened endure night which happened to be a allotment of Atramentous Bruin Welcome Week! Coincidence right??????"
Kelsee Thomas, a affiliate of the atramentous apprentice union, said acceptance confronted fraternity associates at the party. A fraternity affiliate apologized, but laughed if he was asked to address a letter to the group, she said.
"Everyone accumulate in apperception that artlessly because I go to one of the top ranked institutions in the country, doesn't beggarly I'm any further abroad from benightedness and racism as anyone else. They just adumbrate it abaft frat/sorority themes, bearding postings, and micro-aggressions," she said on Facebook. "This isn't over though."
UCLA said it is investigating the affair and talking to students.
"While we do not yet accept all the facts, the declared behavior is inconsistent with acceptable acumen as able-bodied as our attempt of community," UCLA told KNBC-TV.
Sigma Phi Epsilon's civic appointment says the UCLA fraternity has briefly abeyant activities as it investigates the incident.
"Building assorted and across-the-board communities is amount to our character as an organization, and we accept aught altruism for racist behavior," the organization's spokesman, Beaux Carriere, said in a statement. "Sigma Phi Epsilon will abide to plan with the university and UCLA association to investigate these claims and authority acceptance answerable for any inappropriate behavior."
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