“It wasn’t really a shock,” said Ryan C. Holmes, who is black and who went with 10 other students in protest to that party in 1997. “There was no insult intended,” he said, adding: “You’ve got to stop this P.C. He said the fraternity in those days held a yearly “Soul Review” rush party that featured white members in blackface pretending to be groups like the Temptations and the Four Tops. “This was because we loved these entertainers,” he said. “The black fraternities would look at our photo album book and laugh at our pictures, and thought it was funny that we would do that, and loved it.”

Source: New York Times February 08, 2019 07:52 UTC