evidently there is quite a bit going on at this san diego campus
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 Geisel Library around 10PM on Thursday (Feb. 25).
Skeptics 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 to be a n-gger?," 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."