Yo, this thing about the "Straight Thuggin' Ghetto Party" is all over campus now. It's in all the newspapers, and the president just sent out a message about a special forum. Perhaps students should read my blog before they go so as to familiarize themselves with the issues. On a not unrelated note, I did a google image search on "Straight Thuggin" today and turned up all these frat boys just hanging out drinking beer. WTF? If you feel so inclined here are some fun google image searches: Baby Tuxedo, Preganant Prom, ummm that's all I got for now.

But seriously, I just sat through all 3 hours plus of D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation. For those of you who don't know, this is a silent film epic about the founding of AmeriKKKa, the first half depicting the Civil War and the second half depicting the takeover of the south by some "Negro empire" that sought to deprive the "white minority" of their Aryan birthright (I'm not making this up). Luckily the KKK are founded to put a stop to all this or else the USA would not exist. So Griffith apparently based the second half on some sort of historical document, I'm not sure what. It's strange cause you're watching it and the KKK show up all the time and it's like, "Oh, shit, the KKK are here!" and then you remember they're supposed to be the good guys and you're like, "good, the KKK will now save the girl."

The thing that's weird about this whole Straight Thuggin' thing is that people are so afraid to say "that was racist." Everyone is all, "I'm not saying what these students did was racist." Um, yeah, it was. People have a problem admitting that they're racist. Let's be clear, if you are white you are probably racist. Get over it. Deal with it, but get over it.