UGA Fraternity Suspended and Under Investigation After Black Student Pulls Receipts on Racist Group Chat

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A fraternity at the University of Georgia has been suspended and is under investigation after a Black student posted screenshots to social media that show bigoted comments made in a group chat.

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According to the New York Times, it all started on Sept. 4 when junior Arianna Mbunwe mocked a group of sorority sisters who were out at a bar and taking zero precautions to prevent COVID-19 spread despite recent news of a rise in infection cases at UGA.

https://twitter.com/AriannaMbunwe/status/1301968348910170114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

The tweet captioned, โ€œGETTING COVID-19 w the GIRLYSโ€ included photos taken by the bargoers and posted to social media.

So obviously, we all know what happened next: The fine students at UGA saw Mbunweโ€™s post, immediately recognized the error in their ways and vowed to put on those masks, keep their distance from each other and avoid crowds from now on.

Nah, Iโ€™m bullshittinโ€™โ€”they decided to be racist as hell.

From the Times:

But it was a tip unrelated to masks or parties that led to the suspension of the universityโ€™s Lambda Chi Alpha chapter. Ms. Mbunwe, 20, who is Black, received screen shots of a group message that included members of the fraternity making racist statements about her.

โ€œDefinitely another black girl,โ€ one person said. โ€œLord give me the strength to not call that woman a racial slur,โ€ said another, according to the screen shots Ms. Mbunwe posted on Saturday.

โ€œWhat a foul, miserable creature,โ€ said a message attached to a photo of Ms. Mbunwe.

One person, whose user name was โ€œGhost of Aunt Jemima,โ€ made a comment speculating about Ms. Mbunweโ€™s genitalia and said she was โ€œmad she didnโ€™t get a bid,โ€ a reference to the selection process for sororities and fraternities.

https://twitter.com/AriannaMbunwe/status/1307459946678804482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/AriannaMbunwe/status/1307869596008034305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Somebody probably should have warned the good folks at Lambda Chi Alpha about the way Black women pull receipts on that ass.

The fraternityโ€™s national organization posted a statement to Twitter Monday saying โ€œwe unequivocally condemn any acts of homophobia, misogyny and racism,โ€ and that the UGA chapter has been โ€œimmediately suspended.โ€

https://twitter.com/LambdaChiAlpha/status/1308124707624046595?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

UGA also posted a statement saying pretty much the same thing but adding that the โ€œmatter is now being investigated by the Universityโ€™s Equal Opportunity Office.โ€

https://twitter.com/universityofga/status/1308052612131041287?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Of course, the only issue there is that it turns out UGAโ€™s Equal Opportunity Office appears to be pretty trash too, as an official there emailed Mbunwe essentially asking her how posts sheโ€™s made calling out racism are any different than that of white people being racist. Once again, receipts were provided.

More from the Times:

On Tuesday, Ms. Mbunwe shared on Twitter an email she received from the universityโ€™s Equal Opportunity Office, in which the officeโ€™s associate director, Kristopher Stevens, compared her tweets critical of โ€œall white sororitiesโ€ to the comments Ms. Mbunwe had reported to his office.

โ€œIt concerns me that you do not know the basic definition of discrimination,โ€ Ms. Mbunwe said in an emailed reply to Mr. Stevens. โ€œFurther to my point you do not understand that reverse racism does not exist.โ€

https://twitter.com/AriannaMbunwe/status/1308418601322504193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

In a text message to the Times on Tuesday, Mbunwe said that she wanted the students who were involved in the chat to be expelled and for the fraternityโ€™s charter at the university to be revoked.

Lambda Chi Alphaโ€™s general counsel, Lynn Chipperfield, said that whatever disciplinary action is taken against the students would depend on โ€œthe nature of what happened and who was involved.โ€

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