Parker Rice, There Will Be Forgiveness

Parker Rice has withdrawn from Oklahoma University. He should have made the University expel him. The University would have had to present charges to Rice and give him a hearing. I don't know whether "leading a racist and exclusionary chant" is grounds for expulsion or not.

I don't think a public university can expel a student for protected speech. The University of Oklahoma is a public institution. It takes money from the government. In order for speech to lose it's protected status, there needs to be a true threat or incitement. Rice's chant didn't meet that criteria. Therefore, expulsion by the university is unconstitutional.

University of Oklahoma President David Boren says he wants to avoid the creation of a "hostile educational environment for others." How exactly does a racist chant create a "hostile environment?" Is the university going to ban the word "nigger?" OK, ban the word. Acknowledge that black people are a protected class. How many protected classes can be created?

Surely lesbians are oppressed. The word "dyke" is therefore banned. Homosexual men face marginalization. The word "faggot" must therefore be banned. Transexuals? Outliers! The word "tranny" is on the banned list. If an auto repair shop is doing business with the university and wants to continue the relationship, they can no longer use that offensive abbreviation. Women might insist the words "bitch," "slut," and "cunt" be outlawed.

Is Huckleberry Finn going to be banned? What about the thousands of rap songs that use the word "nigger?" I get that that is "their word," and that confers the right to use it. Who decides who will retain the right to use the word?

Another thing is, once a word is banned, it becomes seductive.

The offended mob is not appeased by Rice's withdrawal and public humiliation. There is a protest planned at Rice's parent's house this evening. The protest is being organized by a Dallas group called Next Generation Action Network. Hmm, that sounds very familiar to Al Sharpton's National Action Network. Could it be that Shakedown Al is the shot-caller here?

Parker Rice is six months removed from high school. How many people have got all their shit together at that age? Next Generation Action Network's Facebook page says that they demand "PUBLIC acknowledgement and apology" from Rice. His public shaming and abject humiliation up to this point is not enough? They are also "urging the Department of Justice to investigate ALL SAE chapters across the nation for racial discrimination and possible hate crimes in an attempt to shut down the ENTIRE fraternity."

There is no public accomodation for private institutions. If a fraternity wants to exclude anyone, for any reason, that is their right. A fraternity is not a public accomodation.

Next Generation Action Network's founder is Dominique R. Alexander. He looks like a nice enough fellow, from his picture. His bio describes him as ordained Minister at The True Love Missionary Baptist Church.

Since Alexander is an ordained Baptist minister, he must know that Jesus instructed us that "If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents forgive him. If he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times comes back to you and says , ‘I repent,’ forgive him."

Reverend Alexander, I believe that Parker Rice has repented in his heart. Will you please forgive him, and instruct your followers do likewise?