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Liberal_in_LA

(44,397 posts)
Sat Dec 13, 2014, 07:06 PM Dec 2014

sorority girl celebrates bday with racist cake








Http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2872731/Outsage-Maryland-sorority-sister-celebrated-birthday-racist-cake-shared-image-Instagram.html


A sorority girl at the University of Maryland is facing outrage after she posed for a photo with a racist birthday cake made of alcohol bottles that reads, 's*** a n**** d***' on her 21st birthday.

The photo from Delta Gamma Sorority was posted online to Instagram along with an offensive hashtag comment that featured the 'n-word.'

University of Maryland student Chandler Perry told Pulsefeedz that she saw the photo on her Instagram feed and was angered by


what she saw.
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nomorenomore08

(13,324 posts)
1. Sometimes when people use a certain word or phrase, say as an inside joke among friends, they forget
Sat Dec 13, 2014, 07:11 PM
Dec 2014

how offensive it is to the outside world. Don't get me wrong, she deserves all the scorn and mockery she gets for tweeting this, but I can see how she went into it not thinking what would happen.

Journeyman

(15,041 posts)
2. She's young, a university student, and subject now to scorn and ridicule. This may change her . . .
Sat Dec 13, 2014, 07:18 PM
Dec 2014

at least, that's the hope I'm going to take from this. Possibly misplaced, but more remarkable transformations have been known to occur.

TexasProgresive

(12,159 posts)
3. I have a poor opinion of greeks
Sat Dec 13, 2014, 09:03 PM
Dec 2014

Greeks now are OK but societies whose main purpose is to give the members an advantage over non-members is just prejudice. And then there are all the scandals at a college level.

Rant over.

roguevalley

(40,656 posts)
4. she better be changed. its attitudes like hers bandied without thought that make
Sat Dec 13, 2014, 09:05 PM
Dec 2014

kids kill themselves. the stupid idiot.

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