# MLK FRIED CHICKEN PARTY! Oh, wait... so that's not ok? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 25, 2007, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlk-fried-chicken-party-oh-wait-so-thats-not-ok/389412 "2007-01-25T15:22:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlk-fried-chicken-party-oh-wait-so-thats-not-ok/389412/161 "2007-01-26T16:24:07Z")
Darn, somebody “fixed” the Wikipedia entry. Among the list of “Traditions” at TSU: > [@](#): > > John Tarleton Spirit Award, originated in 1988, and has since become the most highly-coveted award at TSU, and is given to up to twelve students annually at the Leadership and Service Awards Banquet. Recipients are chosen based on campus involvement through organizations, special projects, and activities that contribute to the overall growth of the individual. Yesterday, “racist parties” was included in that last sentence. But this hasn’t changed–so it must be true! Among the Alumni: > [@](#): > > Marvin Zindler, investigative reporter for KTRK television station in Houston, Texas. He was instrumental in exposing the infamous Chicken Ranch brothel near La Grange, Texas. Zindler was the basis for the character Melvin P. Thorpe in the Broadway musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. > **[Tarleton State University](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarleton_State_University)** > > Tarleton State University is a public research university in Stephenville, Texas, United States. It is a founding member of the Texas A&M University System and enrolled over 15,000 students in the fall of 2022. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". John Tarleton College was founded in 1887 with an endowment from settler John Tarleton. In 1917, U.S. Senator and Stephenville resident Henry Clark co-authored and presented legislation establishing John Tarleton... ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlk-fried-chicken-party-oh-wait-so-thats-not-ok/389412/162 "2007-01-26T16:29:04Z")
[QUOTE=you with the face] Maybe we _are_ crazy, **monstro**. I’m scared. [/QUOTE] Not me! I love being crazy. People give you candy and talk to you real slow and gentle-like. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlk-fried-chicken-party-oh-wait-so-thats-not-ok/389412/163 "2007-01-26T16:41:18Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] A couple of years ago, I went to a Burns’ night celebration, where we all ate haggis and cock-a-leekie soup, drank whiskey, wore kilts, and recited poems, odes and toasts in terrible fake Scots accents, afterwards, we put on some folk music and danced jigs and square dances. Nobody present was actually Scottish. [/QUOTE] Cool! I’m attending a Burns supper on Monday, where actual Scots will be present. Many of us Americans will be wearing kilts. ---
**Author:** ![scottkris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@scottkris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scottkris)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlk-fried-chicken-party-oh-wait-so-thats-not-ok/389412/164 "2007-01-26T16:51:56Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] Hey, c’mon. Give the kids props. They were brave enough to do it on a campus where they only outnumbered blacks 20 to 1. What a bunch of clueless punks. [/QUOTE] Yes, so why is everyone so “shocked?” These things happen among those trying to “show-off.” It’s been happening for thousands of years. What 'shocks" me is people think others will act with “common sense,” and the Media will report when people act with “common sense” rather than what people want to see/hear… :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlk-fried-chicken-party-oh-wait-so-thats-not-ok/389412/165 "2007-01-26T16:59:16Z")
[QUOTE=monstro] One memory I have is when one time she was digging in her pockets for something, and a pair of dice fell out. Talk about a little nudge-nudge, wink-wink for the grown-ups in the room! [/QUOTE] What do you mean by this? I’m confused on what the joke is. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlk-fried-chicken-party-oh-wait-so-thats-not-ok/389412/166 "2007-01-26T17:05:18Z")
[QUOTE=Antinor01] What do you mean by this? I’m confused on what the joke is. [/QUOTE] Dice=craps Black people playing craps is an age-old, if not well-known, stereotype. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlk-fried-chicken-party-oh-wait-so-thats-not-ok/389412/167 "2007-01-26T17:10:29Z")
[QUOTE=monstro] Dice=craps Black people playing craps is an age-old, if not well-known, stereotype. [/QUOTE] Oh, I hadn’t heard that one. It doesn’t surprise me that I hadn’t, I grew up in an area with virtually zero people that were not of european descent so these things really didn’t come up. Also explains why I didn’t know ‘coon’ was a racial slur til a thread here on the dope a while back. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2007, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlk-fried-chicken-party-oh-wait-so-thats-not-ok/389412/168 "2007-01-27T03:04:04Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] That’s the great thing about bigotry. Its stupidity is its own undoing. [/QUOTE] Sometimes it takes a while. The Republican party controlled congress for 12 years and it wasn’t even racism that ultimately brought them down. It was the idiocy of the non-racist half of the Republican equation (PNAC) topped off by homophobia. Of course if you think of the Virginia senate race, it very well may have been racism that gave the Democrats the majority in the senate. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2007, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlk-fried-chicken-party-oh-wait-so-thats-not-ok/389412/169 "2007-01-27T03:41:29Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > The sheep may have had a different view. > [@Struan](#): > > _'phones Commission for Racial Equality_ _checks **Hal** ’s alibi_ ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2007, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlk-fried-chicken-party-oh-wait-so-thats-not-ok/389412/170 "2007-01-27T20:55:58Z")
This nothing issue is being overwrought, overfought and overthought. I second the “meh”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlk-fried-chicken-party-oh-wait-so-thats-not-ok/389412.md?page=8)