Student Group Protests Outside Penn Phi Delt By Holding Faux Slave Auction
Back in December, the members of Phi Delta Theta at University of Pennsylvania caught heat for including a Beyonce blow up doll in their Christmas photo. The fraternity apologized for the use of the doll, claiming that it was nothing but a gag gift, and said that it was a bad decision to have it.
Last Friday, one student group on campus, Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation, or SOUL, protested the fraternity over the incident.
From The Daily Pennsylvanian:
In front of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house, a member of the group stood on a box with plastic chains around her neck, reciting a poem directed toward the members of the fraternity, calling them out for their choice to feature a black blow-up sex doll in their holiday photo last December.
“When you walk on Locust, you’re not supposed to feel the violence that is this house,” College senior Victoria Ford, the student reciting the poem, said.
In response to the photo, Phi Delt’s nationals put the fraternity on probation. The brothers were required to take educational programs on cultural sensitivity and sexual and relationship misconduct. The reason for the protest was because the group was not pleased with the punishment that Phi Delt received for the incident.
“We haven’t forgotten about this and remain unsatisfied with the University’s response and punishment of Phi Delta Theta,” SOUL posted on its Facebook event for a Tuesday meeting to organize the protest.
SOUL took to the front of the house to show this displeasure by participating in a fake slave auction.
The fake slave auction in front of the chapter house was meant to tie the purchasing of the black sex-doll into the larger narrative of slavery, and the historical relationship between white men and black women.
The fake auctioneers held signs that read $14.60, symbolizing the amount of money the blow-up doll cost. Protesters also painted their heads as a symbol of police brutality.
The fraternity did not have anything to comment on the protests..
[via The Daily Pennsylvanian]
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“Oh put the card back in the deck”
11 years ago at 12:15 pmThis was blown way out of proportion.
11 years ago at 12:15 pmMuch like the doll.
11 years ago at 2:31 pmThank you, that was the joke.
11 years ago at 3:15 pmTotally beat me to this joke
11 years ago at 3:57 pmFuck this dude
11 years ago at 9:35 pmHow can they have the word “Unity” in their name then pull crap like this?
11 years ago at 12:15 pmStudents Organizing for Unity and LIBERATION decide to hold a slave auction? I don’t understand the thought process behind this one.
11 years ago at 12:17 pmFollow the rules and do NOT hurt anyone’s feelings…. Unless you’re black, in that case do whatever the fuck you want
11 years ago at 12:19 pmSounds like a great opportunity to really test out the new party speakers.
11 years ago at 12:20 pmthis is the same SOUL that spit and abused a couple of veterans while protesting a couple of days ago. just a bunch of privileged liberal fucks who are obsessive of their own agenda and image.
11 years ago at 12:20 pmWhy is that guy wearing letters. That’s the real question
11 years ago at 12:21 pmYeah, I can’t tell if he’s actually a member or not, but I don’t see why they would participate in it. Much more disrespectful to impersonate a brother than to include a blow up doll in a funny photo
11 years ago at 12:25 pmThese SJWs always find a way to out do themselves in stupidity.
11 years ago at 12:22 pmSo basically this wouldn’t have been an issue for SOUL if they had used a Kate Upton blow-up doll?
11 years ago at 12:22 pmI wonder what would’ve happened had a black fraternity been holding a Kate Upton doll.
11 years ago at 1:43 pmnothing at all.
11 years ago at 2:06 pm