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| Iran Becton |
Ah, summertime. The days are
long and hot, and the racists are out in force. Last week it was a little boy
singing the National anthem, and then it was an elected official from Iowa, and
now it’s a college fraternity in Chicago.
Iran Becton, an African American postal carrier in Chicago,
on a delivery he made to the University of Chicago’s Phi Delta Theta fraternity
on campus:
“About a week after Memorial Day, I had an order to bring 79 of the boxes. I came to the address and explained to the frat member that I would have a lot more supplies. I went back to the truck for the boxes about six or seven times. After the last trip, one of the frat guys came out and said it was a practical joke. Another guy said that I should read the name backwards and I’ll get the joke.”
The name on the packages was ““Reggin Toggaf”.
‘F****t N****r”
Oh, my, what a quality prank! I mean, when you can denigrate
two groups of people with one prank—two birds with one racist homophobic stone—don’t
you just deserve some kind of award? Or maybe you deserve some kind of smack-down.
Mack Julion,
president of a local National Association of Letter Carriers branch, was told
that it was a practical joke by another
fraternity and now Phi Delta Theta is trying to defend itself from the
indefensible by blaming ‘that other guy’—the guy they have yet to name. I guess
that makes it okay in their book.
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| Phi Delta Theta |
Bob Biggs, executive vice president of the Phi Delta Theta
international fraternity, says, “The locals members are baffled. They don’t
know who is doing this.”
Maybe they could question the guy who pointed out the
bigoted name on the boxes to Iran Becton after
Becton delivered every single box; maybe that guy knows something.
I don’t know if Phi Delta Theta is the racist fraternity, or
if, as they say, it was another frat house playing a joke on them, and I
personally don’t care. In no world, on no one’s side of this, is this
acceptable, or funny, or even falling into the category of prank, because the
name on the boxes had nothing to do with the fraternity so the joke isn’t on
them.
The ‘joke,’ as these people are calling it, is on the
African American and LGBT community’s because, you know, we don’t matter, and
we can be made fun of, and targeted and treated as something to be laughed at.
Except it’s not funny.
Some 20 somethings are idiots.
ReplyDeleteWTeverlovinF? shouldn't they be studying for exams or looking for a job or something?
ReplyDeleteThey're obviously very much still frat BOYS. It seems like fraternities often delay the process of turning them into men.
ReplyDeleteYou mean none of them could muster the intelligence to come up with a name like Benoit Bahl? The sad part is some of these people will be hired by big corporations to run them.
ReplyDeleteThat in itself is the punch line.
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