Alan - We've known each other at least digitally for decades, and by now you should know 2 things about me. 1 I would hope you'd learned a thing or 2 about my character enough to refrain from making the hints you're making. 2 You've definitely observed that I won't hold back by my genuine thoughts and an angry mob will never silence me.

BLSS - I am no expert on the set up of any and all orgs surrounding the University. I just know the Black Alumni Reunion was an official university event. I acknowledge the university files and may monitor other extracurricular groups of all kinds, but I don't think they are planning parties for the Korean Culture Club.

Again, any group can gather for whatever reason they feel binds them together. But a public institution making those decisions and distinctions is not something I like to see happen. You've asked who is harmed...no there is no tangible direct harm on the event taking place. But I do think society at large is indeed harmed when people find it appropriate to assemble on the basis of race. My buddy greencat jumped right in and shouted about all the horrible white clubs that USED to exist, are you using that behavior you abhor to justify this current behavior you adore? How does that make sense?

To get into the details of this decision, I actually think it is another case of "malicious compliance" where they strive to create the headline to make the legislation look bad and induce rage (mission accomplished). I personally took the spirit of the directive from the federal government to be centered on admissions, scholarships, aid and other direct benefits. I highly doubt social gatherings would have jeopardized anything, but I suppose time will tell.

As the angry responses will continue to flow in, I should mention that I am not going to take the bait on all these rabbit trails. I am far from a blind supporter of Trump but if you want to attach everything he says or does to me that is your right, but I am not gonna waste my time with anything other than the conversation at hand.

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Your statement is stupid and irrelevant, and part of why I made my last point in my last post.

The statement "How many other groups could attack our nation's capitol and get pardoned?" blows everything you say and stand for out of the water.

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I got you. As someone born/raised and lived all my 40+ years in southern ohio. I know dog whistles.

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And when you look at the historic racial diversity on our campus, every homecoming is white homecoming! The canceling the women's event at OU L is just as outrageous, pandering to the OHIO legislature, the Attorney General and their threats.

You are aware that their are black hillbillies?

https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/letters/2025/03/08... /

You are absolutely correct. Having worked in institutional advancement, I've seen first hand where university decisions have had profound effects on initial giving as well as continued giving. Those who tend to give were very involved when they were students on their respective campuses. When the legs get cut off of what they identified with and were a part of, their hands go in their pockets.

The writer's best point in that piece is that OU admins jumped high before anyone asked them, and that a party has nothing to do with race-based decision making. As I stated before, I really don't think this was a necessary reaction to the federal government statements. But otherwise the dramatization is thick. Reaching to suggest they'll change the name of Templeton-Blackburn and saying "black alumni are no longer welcome on campus." Come on. As part of her childish rants she even says "OU needs to hear from and see alumni of all races..." does she realize the irony in her statement?

Acting like this somehow means the right is against freedom is predictable. Public officials dictating the actions of public institutions is NOT a contradiction to the personal freedom the right champions. Just like when they claimed a years long narrative that the right was "banning books" when in reality they just didn't want inappropriate content included in public school libraries and no one ever suggested banning them. To suggest any of this is an attack of minority groups right to assemble in their personal lives is way off base.

greencat - You're so clearly closed off and unstable regarding politics it is hard to even know where to begin. The statement "All supporters of trump support him blindly and unquestioningly" is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard, and everything that is wrong with political discourse. But you already declared yourself the winner, so I guess that is it. Congratulations.

DCF - If white people are invited, great...I really don't care. It is still called the Black Alumni Reunion and seems to be a bizarre thing for the University to put on. Imagine if your High School did it, wouldn't it be weird? Should your kid's preschool have a black kids only day? I just think it's all weird and counterproductive.

I point out no one was calling for book bans, and instead for removal of certain books in public school libraries, and you post a list of books removed from public school libraries as proof books are being banned. Did you even read what I wrote? Or what the website you provided says?

Let me explain this for you, even though I'm breaking my vow to avoid dumb political rabbit trails. Millions of books exist. The average school library has certain size limitations and therefore not all books are included. Are those chosen not to be included automatically considered banned? I wrote a fun book for my kids years ago, can I now go around and tell people that my book has been banned because they chose not to include it?

And the idea that there aren't books that exist that shouldn't be available to kids is asinine. Of course there are countless that are not appropriate for a SCHOOL.

61% of the (R) party as of 2022 opposed the separation of church and state.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/republicans-ch... /

It is probably more by now.

You'll notice that none of them EVER condemn anything the (R) now stands for? Even the J6 insurrection and more recently the pardons? The support for putin. The transphobia. The xenophobia. The selling out of our government to a racist from South Africa. Putting an anti-vaxxer in charge of the nation's healthcare.

There is not enough bandwidth to post a complete list.

In case any one on this thread needs a local Metin or two to keep there membership active. Here is a list of local chapters.

https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map /