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February 20, 2010
UCSD Students Celebrate Black History Month with 'Compton Cookout'
Wow. This story is pretty wild. Apparently, some UCSD students planned a party to celebrate Black History Month. Their party was called the 'Compton Cookout', and they set up an invitation via facebook. This got the Thought Police foaming at the mouth, of course. On Thursday, state lawmakers were calling for expulsions. They believe in Freedom to Speech to a point - that point being as soon as someone gets offended apparently, which can't be allowed.
Then, on Friday, some guys at the UCSD Student Run Television station (SR-TV) called the blacks at UCSD a bunch of "ungrateful n1ggers." Wow. So, that got the the SR-TV shut down.
Meanwhile, some are claiming that the 'Compton Cookout' party was nothing more than a publicity stunt to promote a DVD release - essentially it was a DVD release party (NSFW).
Update: After reading some more posts on this, the UCSD better tread very lightly, as in shut their freaking mouths. If they try to go after these students for something that happened off campus, they'll be sued until these students own UCSD. The school has no jurisdiction over these students when they're off campus. They may not approve of or condone their behaviour, but that's neither here nor there. If they go after these students, the students won't have to worry about getting an education and a career. They'll be able to sue the UCSD and retire without even graduating.
Posted by Rob Kiser on February 20, 2010 at 4:16 PM
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