White UT Students Take Pic With Rappers, OOPS It’s Just A Couple Random Black Dudes So The Internet Destroys Them
8 years ago

University of Texas RoundUp was this past weekend. RoundUp is basically a weekend-long party put on jointly by all the fraternities at UT, and each house usually has small to relatively big name musical guests perform at some point. The parties run day and night and I think are intended to serve as a “this is how we party” rush tool for prospective rushees in the fall semester. It’s a big deal at UT. True story: I went while I was in high school a couple times.

The rap group Foe G4ng, out of Houston (our intern Reagan, a suburb-raised UT student, tells me), performed at the KA house during RoundUp. Foe G4ng isn’t a big name group. You’ve probably never heard of Foe G4ng and almost definitely don’t know what the members of Foe G4ng look like.

And neither did these white UT students who thought they were posing for a picture with Foe G4ng.

It wasn’t Foe G4ng, though. It was this dude who goes by Kassa on Twitter. Above picture: not Foe G4ng. This next picture: Foe G4ng.

That’s what Foe G4ng looks like, and they are, in fact, not the same guys as Kassa and his boy. Kassa and his friend are black guys, but they’re not rappers. This is an important distinction. The students who posted the pic were mistaken. Harmless ignorance, or stereotyping? Full-on racism? I don’t know man I feel like I’m not touching this one.

Kassa and the other guy tagged in the original tweet, Faneal Tesfit, are pretty offended by this. One calls out the fraternity culture at UT. The other claims racism.

The internet pitchforks came out.

Look, let’s all slow our rolls a little bit here. Not everything of this nature is worthy of outrage. And maybe it is a shitty situation and these students think any black person who shows up to predominately white parties must be a rapper. It’s possible. But isn’t it also possible that these students were just kind of familiar with the small time rap group Foe G4ng and made an innocent mistake?

Internet outrage is so in.

    1. TheOldMan

      In Tennessee they’d have assumed they were Charlie Pride and Darius Rucker.

      8 years ago at 2:32 pm
  3. Douchefromnationals

    Then don’t pretend to be the rap group and don’t take the damn picture

    8 years ago at 1:38 pm
      3. BobMotherFuckingBarker

        I’m convinced all of these bad commenters that have sprung up recently are all run by the vaginator

        8 years ago at 9:24 pm
      6. thevaginator

        Not really meant to be a comback just more of a statement I’m almost positive is true

        8 years ago at 12:18 am
      7. Theregalrattle

        Based on your comment frequency your high school’s wifi connection must be spectacular.

        8 years ago at 10:36 am
    2. dcp123

      If you go to his twitter, you can see that he says they never said they were the band and these folks just asked to take a picture with them. On a one to ten scale of racism, this is probably about a 3, but I’d take the man’s word that he didn’t initiate this by pretending to be a member of the band.

      8 years ago at 12:22 pm
  5. GoodbyeNormalStreet

    Go read the Tweets to learn what reverse racism looks like. And yes, it’s just as bad.

    8 years ago at 1:40 pm
    1. DrGonzoTFM

      I upvoted you and I agree with what you said but I do want to point out that there is no such thing as reverse racism. It’s just racism, plain and simple.

      8 years ago at 2:52 pm
  6. Drunken Keith

    Those guys were probably going around saying they were the rappers. Classic pulling the race card and then blaming fraternity culture.

    8 years ago at 1:40 pm
  8. Fratty McFratFrat

    I’d tell them I was LeBron James if it would give me a shot at that girl in the front.

    8 years ago at 1:54 pm
  9. FuckingMcNulty

    You don’t pose for a pic with random people that think you’re a rapper unless you want to. Odds are the girls mistook them for the rap group, these guys played along hoping to get lucky and when that didn’t work out they pulled the race card instead of sucking it up like everybody else does

    8 years ago at 2:17 pm
  10. FratinaHat

    blk dudes: “LOL we’re semi-famous rappers let us in to your house”

    Frat bros: “uh…what?”

    Sorority slutes: “OH MUH GAWD LIKE FAMOUS RAPPER N SHIT I WANT INSTA PICS”

    blk dudes: “LOL Ya put that on your gay fraternity websites n sheet”

    Twitter: “Look at all the racists white people who want pictures with blk dudes!!! SO evil racysstts n sheeeet”

    8 years ago at 2:24 pm
  11. TheOldMan

    I’m going to crash a party at the Omega Psi Phi house and claim to be Barry Manilow.

    8 years ago at 2:30 pm