Fraternity Suspended After Throwing MLK Day Party with Watermelon Cups

Here we go again. Tau Kappa Epsilon, a fraternity at Arizona State University was suspended this week after throwing (and I can’t believe I’m actually writing this) a particularly offensive Martin Luther King, Jr. Day party, in which participants dressed in basketball jerseys, flashed gang signs and drank from watermelon shaped cups.

Oh gross.

“This isn’t appropriate at all and you really have no business
dressing like this on a day that’s sort of revered for
African-Americans,” said ASU senior Frank Hogan after seeing some of the
pictures. “I think this represents the ignorance that still
exists today. This is just one example of the kind of things that occur
here,” stated Kaajal Koranteng, also a senior.

A spokesman from
the local chapter who would only identify himself as Cole would not
comment on the party or investigation. Rather, he told CBS 5 News to
contact the national organization for TKE. “We are aware of the
situation. We have been contacted and we have been in contact with the
local chapter and the university,” explained Patrick Gleason, the
director of Compliance and Housing for the national organization, based
out of Indianapolis.

And surprise; this isn’t the first time the frat in question had landed in hot water. They were just reinstated in December after being suspended for inappropriate conduct that included a fight. Well, I’m sure this time they’ll really turn things around!

This incident is just the latest in a needlessly long, sad line of dumb racist parties thrown by America’s finest university students who for some goddamn reason still can’t seem to get it in their heads that dressing up in costumes to make fun of other racial groups is a bad idea. Just a really, really bad fucking idea.

No word yet on if there will be further punishment aside from the suspension for this fraternity, or for how long it will take before young people stop doing stupid crap like this.

“They obviously need to be checked on what they’re doing, how they’re acting and how they’re presenting themselves. Not only as a fraternity
of brothers, but as people,” said Hogan, in what is clearly the winning understatement thus far of 2014.