What do you get when you combine basketball jerseys, chalices made from hollowed-out watermelons, saggy jeans with bananas poking from the waistbands and poorly-mimicked gang signs flashed all over the place?
The worst MLK Day fraternity party ever conceived.
Though the details of this celebration read like a themed costume party thrown at the home of the KKK’s Grand Wizard, the brainchildren behind the endeavor were none other than the fun boys at Arizona State’s Tau Kappa Epsilon (TKE) fraternity.
While we’ve all made mistakes in college, it takes a special kind of stupid to fail to recognize that hosting an unsanctioned, unregistered party advertised as the “MLK Black Party” will land you in some hot water.
Event branding issues aside, if you’re still so compelled to let your inner racist shine bright, have the good sense not to post pictures of your dress up party all over Facebook and Instagram using the hashtags #ihaveadream, #hood and #watermeloncup.
Representatives for Arizona State University have announced that all TKE chapter operations have been suspended while the school continues its investigation into the unregistered MLK Day party.
Community members, unsurprisingly, are outraged, suggesting that ASU needs to adopt a zero tolerance policy for racism.
A spokesman for the national fraternity says that the organization is both aware of the situation and has been in contact with the members of its ASU chapter.
“I’ll be meeting with the school as well as the local chapter, as I said, to really flush out the details of this incident and get a full scope of what occurred,” said Patrick Gleason, director of Compliance and Housing for TKE nationally.
Too bad those TKE rascals are shut down for the time-being. Rumor has it their “South Will Rise Again – Rebel Pride” party was supposed to be epic.
