White UT Students Take Pic With Rappers, OOPS It’s Just A Couple Random Black Dudes So The Internet Destroys Them
9 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. Sundown96

      I think the stat on that is an average of 5 out of 11 with a pretty high clustering about the mean

      9 years ago at 8:02 pm
  3. Happylearnedtoputt

    Just more people crying racism where racism doesnt exist. They probably didnt mind posing as rappers to get into the parties….

    9 years ago at 2:35 pm
  4. Betteroffbeatingoff

    Every high school student in Texas has “texas” by foe g4ng on their playlists

    9 years ago at 2:39 pm
  5. thevaginator

    So a black of skanks too a picture with some black guys. Don’t see what the big deal is. If you think it’s racism or reverse racism you’re a fucking moron

    9 years ago at 3:42 pm
    2. thevaginators dad

      Better sit this one out, boy. All that jackin’ off you been doin’ in the cow pasture is taking a toll on yer typing.

      9 years ago at 4:07 pm
  8. Frattorney 23

    Racism in the 50’s: Segregated schools, lynchings, and voter intimidation.

    Racism in 2017: They asked us to take a picture because they thought we were famous.

    Calm the fuck down Kassa.

    9 years ago at 4:25 pm
  10. Keepin it Fratty

    Be careful Dillon. The traction this article is starting to gain by the cry babies over on twitter could lead to this being another shark shotgun situation

    9 years ago at 6:24 pm