Post by tex on Oct 2, 2013 19:18:52 GMT -5
A UC Berkeley fraternity is being called ‘racist’ after hosting a quinceañera-themed party last month.
Delta Chi has faced harsh backlash since the Sept. 21 party, with members of the school’s Hispanic community speaking out against it and the Associated Students of the University of California Senate condemning it in new legislation, according to The Daily Californian.
“For people in the Mexican community, quinceañeras are usually for young women who transition from being a girl into a woman,” said ASUC Senator Wendy Pacheco, author of the bill. “That’s very important in our community, and for someone to take that and turn it into a party scene and dress up with sombreros and mustaches and reflect those stereotypes of what Mexican culture is is not OK.”
Pacheco, an Ethnic Studies and Legal Studies double major, also wrote that “[frat] members came dressed up with sombreros, fake mustaches, blown up cacti, and dress that was reflective of ‘cholos,’” according to a copy of the bill obtained by Red Alert Politics.
The bill calls for the fraternity to write an apology letter to members of the Hispanic community, as well as racial sensitivity training for the entire Greek system.
Delta Chi President Cody Kermanian told The Daily Cal that the event was suggested by Mexican members of the frat and that no harm was meant by it.
“A lot of the rhetoric in the bill assumes what our thoughts were without even talking to us about it,” he told the paper. “The intention was never to marginalize, and it never has been nor will be.”
redalertpolitics.com/2013/10/01/uc-berkeley-frat-hosts-racist-quinceanera-themed-party/
Delta Chi has faced harsh backlash since the Sept. 21 party, with members of the school’s Hispanic community speaking out against it and the Associated Students of the University of California Senate condemning it in new legislation, according to The Daily Californian.
“For people in the Mexican community, quinceañeras are usually for young women who transition from being a girl into a woman,” said ASUC Senator Wendy Pacheco, author of the bill. “That’s very important in our community, and for someone to take that and turn it into a party scene and dress up with sombreros and mustaches and reflect those stereotypes of what Mexican culture is is not OK.”
Pacheco, an Ethnic Studies and Legal Studies double major, also wrote that “[frat] members came dressed up with sombreros, fake mustaches, blown up cacti, and dress that was reflective of ‘cholos,’” according to a copy of the bill obtained by Red Alert Politics.
The bill calls for the fraternity to write an apology letter to members of the Hispanic community, as well as racial sensitivity training for the entire Greek system.
Delta Chi President Cody Kermanian told The Daily Cal that the event was suggested by Mexican members of the frat and that no harm was meant by it.
“A lot of the rhetoric in the bill assumes what our thoughts were without even talking to us about it,” he told the paper. “The intention was never to marginalize, and it never has been nor will be.”
redalertpolitics.com/2013/10/01/uc-berkeley-frat-hosts-racist-quinceanera-themed-party/
