Frat Brothers Build A Mock ‘Border Wall’ In Honor Of Donald Trump

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Source: Think Progress

A group of fraternity brothers at Tulane University are taking some heat for building a mock “border wall” around their frat house emblazoned with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s name and his oft-cited slogan “Make America Great Again.”

The Kappa Alpha brothers insist the wall, which was constructed out of sandbags, was meant as a joke. But many of their fellow students found it offensive and disrespectful to people of color on campus. And it’s become just the latest example in a string of incidents invoking Trump’s name as somewhat of a racial slur that connotes xenophobia, particularly against Muslims and immigrants.
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The KA chapter at Tulane said in a statement that the wall was meant to “mock the ideologies of a political candidate.”

“Our chapter takes KA’s values of gentlemanly conduct very seriously,” KA’s statement read. “This respect extends to every student of Tulane and every member of the broader community. A comment was written on a makeshift wall on our private property, normally used for a game of capture the flag, to mock the ideologies of a political candidate. This had a unintended negative effect and as such it has been dismantled.”

But other students didn’t think the sentiment came across as a joke. According to The Tab, a news site produced by university students, the Tulane football team took down the sandbags as one fraternity brother shouted that they should stop disturbing private property.

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2016/04/13/3768935/tulane-frat-students-border-wall/


Gentlemanly conduct my arse.

[dhill926]

1. well bless their little fucking hearts....

[SwankyXomb]

2. Rather than taking it down

the football players should have stood guard and kept the dudebros inside.

[pampango]

3. "the wall was meant to “mock the ideologies of a political candidate” "had a unintended negative

effect and as such it has been dismantled”

Most of us would agree with that "invoking Trump’s name as somewhat of a racial slur that connotes xenophobia, particularly against Muslims and immigrants."

An online petition quickly began circulating to “stand in solidarity” with the individuals who dismantled the wall and has generated 622 signatures in the past 12 hours. The petition argues that Trump’s name and his “Make America Great Again” slogan have “connotations that reverberate beyond this campus and into the larger xenophobic and racist discourse that has surrounded this general election.”

“By writing ‘TRUMP’ in large, red letters across their ‘wall,’ KA changed what was a tradition of building a wall into a tradition of constructing a border, symbolizing separation and xenophobia,” Khristyan Anthonee Trejo, a Tulane University student, wrote in a public Facebook post about the sandbag ‘border wall.’ “This issue not only affects Latinos but all other marginalized immigrant groups in this country.”

It MAY be that the fraternity thought that a mock wall with Trump's name, slogan and racist, xenophobic comments was a way of "mocking a political candidate". If so, they chose a poor way in which to do it.

[RAFisher]

4. I agree with them! Fraternities are a problem and we need to build walls around them

to keep them outside of college campus. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people. Also I'll make the fraternities pay for the wall!

(These morons didn't realize by building the wall themselves they are comparing themselves to Mexico)

[Initech]

5. If they're doing this sarcastically, I support this.

But then again it is the same state that elected Bobby Jindal.

[Odin2005]

6. Frats are a hive of privileged assholes.

I think all frats should be banned.