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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (846316)	3/30/2015 8:17:53 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1577034

Ted was actually IN SAE for a time. I was never in a frat, didn't want to be, but I knew several guys in frats and girls in sororities. I sold them pot! Besides the binge drinking, the raping and all the other stuff, some of my frat buddies told me their frat had copies of all the professor's tests, the one's that they re-used. Besides that, later in life, I learned that 2 executives one of the companies I worked for had been in the same frat as the CEO! Did that GET them the jobs? Who knows...

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (846316)	3/30/2015 11:25:25 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577034

Hey Ted, it seems you may be right about the institutionalized racism among white boy fraternities: Racist SAE chant was taught at national leadership event, fraternity says Wow, that's amazing. I never would have thought that, even in this day and age, these guys are still acting like the KKK. I guess "white power" still has some sort of perverse draw with these guys. I don't know if I said this before, but the whole frat scene never appealed to me. When I was applying to college, and during my freshman year at Cornell, I never understood why so many people cared so much about getting into fraternities. It just seemed to be another "cool crowd" thing that I thought I grew out of as I went through high school. For me, I was insecure attending a school with nearly 20K students. The frat. guys looked really cool.......plus there was this girl in my biology lab..... a junior, a Theta, impossibly hot........who was my lab partner. She told me to go SAE......that's all it took. But most of the brothers, it was just a continuation of the life they've lead since they were kids. Their arrogance was astounding......they really believed they were part of a superior race. They acted as if they were beyond death. It seems, though, that this "Good Old Boy" network, while I've always known of its existence, is far stronger and more ingrained in our subculture than I would like to believe. I am afraid it is. The behavior of those guys on the video.............didn't surprise me in the least. How do we dismantle it? I'm not sure it can be, since it's human nature to want to congregate around people who think, look, and act like you and come from similar backgrounds. I don't think you can. They are the dominate people in this country. But I think I'll start with myself and integrate more with races and people groups that I usually don't hang out with. It's hard, since they have to want to hang out with me just as much as I'm trying to hang out with them. It can't hurt........but I don't think it will change their biases.