JEFF PEARLMAN

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Congrats, racist frat boy. You’re unemployable.

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I don’t know this guy’s name, but I’m guessing many people do. He’s a student at the University of Oklahoma, as well as an apparently loud and proud (and bigoted) member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

He’s also fucked.

In case you missed this one, Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s chapter on the Oklahoma campus has been closed after the surfacing of a video featuring fraternity members joyfully, enthusiastically letting loose a racist chant on a bus ride to a formal. Hell, why babble any longer. Here’s the actual footage …

If you couldn’t understand, the idiots were chanting, “There will never be a nigger in SAE.” And, indeed, they are correct. There will never be “a nigger” in SAE. Or a kike, a honky, a Spic or a three-headed lion named Albert. Why? Because SAE is dead. Gone. Officially off campus, and likely never to return.

But better than the expulsion of the organization is the public shaming and humiliation of some of those involved. In particular, I mourn nary a second for Jim Bob, (my pretend name for) the boob pictured above. Right now, I imagine, he’s back home at Mommy and Daddy’s house, crying beneath his Snoopy comforter, wondering how in the world he went from high-flying keg stand dude to Mark Fuhrman (Odds are 50/50 he grew up with a LeBron or Andre Johnson poster on his wall). He has humiliated his friends, his family, his fraternity, himself—and it’s well deserved and justified. Hell, just Google “Oklahoma” and “racist” and “fraternity,” and this is what you’ll find …

Screen Shot 2015-03-08 at 11.10.25 PMJim Bob, a little tip: Racism never pays.

Welcome to hell.