After examining numerous articles of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon situation, I can give a precise argument as to how I feel about your vision of selfhood and whether I approve of what they did or not. I disagree with SAE’s vision of selfhood because it is very wrong. Although you are allowed to think any thought you want, you can’t just say anything or do anything you want. Some things are better left unsaid.
Members from the fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon from The University of Oklahoma were on a party bus chanting racial slurs. There were actually five different buses but because this was a bus full of the frats members all of the members have to deal with the consequences. There are only 5% African Americans at the University and 0% African …show more content…
As W. E. B. Du Bois explained People cannot just say or do whatever they want because of how other people will respond. Sigma Alpha Epsilon was removed from the University of Oklahoma because the school did not like the message they were sending or the image they were portraying. It would be nice if everyone could just do what they wanted as previous philosophers stated but not everyone has the same freedom as others.
On the contrary, Emerson believed that people should always say and do what they feel no matter what other people have to say. Members of SAE are constantly being racist because of the history behind the fraternity. It was created by a lot of the frat’s primary members who came from plantation-owning families, with majority who fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War. I feel like Emerson believe no matter people thought wanted you to do or say, you should always say what’s on your mind and I believe that’s why SAE had such misfortune in the first place.
This event connects to literature in The Appropriation of Cultures when “One night, some white boys from a fraternity yelled forward to the stage at the black man holding the acoustic guitar and began to shout “Play Dixie for us!”” There is an example about the piece from
Members from the fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon from The University of Oklahoma were on a party bus chanting racial slurs. There were actually five different buses but because this was a bus full of the frats members all of the members have to deal with the consequences. There are only 5% African Americans at the University and 0% African …show more content…
As W. E. B. Du Bois explained People cannot just say or do whatever they want because of how other people will respond. Sigma Alpha Epsilon was removed from the University of Oklahoma because the school did not like the message they were sending or the image they were portraying. It would be nice if everyone could just do what they wanted as previous philosophers stated but not everyone has the same freedom as others.
On the contrary, Emerson believed that people should always say and do what they feel no matter what other people have to say. Members of SAE are constantly being racist because of the history behind the fraternity. It was created by a lot of the frat’s primary members who came from plantation-owning families, with majority who fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War. I feel like Emerson believe no matter people thought wanted you to do or say, you should always say what’s on your mind and I believe that’s why SAE had such misfortune in the first place.
This event connects to literature in The Appropriation of Cultures when “One night, some white boys from a fraternity yelled forward to the stage at the black man holding the acoustic guitar and began to shout “Play Dixie for us!”” There is an example about the piece from