Posted on September 4 at 11:39 a.m.Suggest removal

"Boots" I doubt you've been there more than me since I was raised over there. So please don't try and tell me what I should or shouldn't be offended by especially from someone who has no clue what the plight of African Americans has been throughout time. You have your opinion, I have mine and I was offended that the paper would allow this to go to print and for the record I never said he was a racist.
Far more people were offended than not and they are here to voice their opinion about the article. You were the first to inject the race issue.
We can agree to disagree but SAVE you formulated opinion for something you know about not things you have very little knowedge.

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Posted on September 2 at 7 p.m.Suggest removal

Glad to see so many people here to let African Americans know how they should and shouldn't feel. Thanks, we all had it so wrong. We sure appreciate you coming to clear things up.
Boots, I have been there at that hour of the night and I'm still here. You never walked a mile in anyone's shoes so how the heck are you to determine what is right and what is wrong in the eyes of people who don't agree with this article?

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Posted on September 2 at 1:08 p.m.Suggest removal

"Boots" because you don't perceive it as racial insensitive is unfortunate and things like this will continue to happen or written that is nothing more than sterotype. An apology was appropriate and I don't recall anyone other than you saying it was racism and you are being insensitive to many many people who saw it and were offended. You are in the minority in thinking it was a great story but in fact it was poorly written story about going for some fried chicken.
Oh, by the way, I go to the Eastside every time I'm in OKC and I'm never afraid to be there nor do I feel threatened by being there. Good people over there, I don't know any "thugs" and "gangstas" but I surely will look for them on my next visit!

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Posted on September 1 at 7:32 p.m.Suggest removal

"I do not believe the author, Kyle West, meant to offend anyone in the OU community or beyond, but it was nonetheless insensitive"

How would you know if he was or not? Why hasn't he stepped up and made an apology?

"The Life & Arts editor should not have overlooked the potentially offensive subtext, but again, that’s what happened"

And where is this person and why is he not offering an apology?

"We will try our hardest, as we always do, to avoid making any mistakes we have in the past"

Seems to me that a place where higher learning is supposed to happen just the opposite is happening when you offend a whole community of people. I'm ashamed to say that I attended a place where things like this still can happen.
Malcolm Forbes said it perfectly with this quote
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one". We know there is at least one empty mind at the University of Oklahoma.

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Posted on September 1 at 4:28 p.m.Suggest removal

I lower my head in shame that the editors for this school newspaper would allow this to go to print. A great quote I once read "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one". Seem like it not happening at OU these days.

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