Ole Miss Greek Life Retreat Canceled After Banana Peel Found in Tree

[Teh One Who Knocks]

by Tom Ciccotta - Breitbart


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A Greek life retreat scheduled to take place at the University of Mississippi was cut short last weekend after a banana peel was found hanging in a tree on campus.

Student Ryan Swanson admitted to tossing his banana peel into a nearby tree after he was unable to locate a garbage can. Shortly after he disposed of the peel, it was spotted by Alpha Kappa Alpha President Makala McNeil, a leader of one of the school’s historically black sororities.

Despite Swanson’s explanation, a report from the student newspaper claims that students left the retreat in tears after finding out that McNeil has discovered the peel. McNeil claims the students “didn’t feel welcome” or “safe” on campus.

“To be clear, many members of our community were hurt, frightened, and upset by what occurred at IMPACT,” Interim Director of Fraternity and Sorority Life Alexa Lee Arndt said in a statement that was published by Ole Miss’ student newspaper The Daily Mississippian. “Because of the underlying reality many students of color endure on a daily basis, the conversation manifested into a larger conversation about race relations today at the University of Mississippi.”

“The overall tone was heavy. I mean, we were talking about race in Mississippi and in the Greek community so there’s a lot involved,” McNeil recalled, later adding that she and her friend were “all just sort of paranoid for a second” after spotting the banana.

Swanson offered an apology, despite maintaining that his disposal of the peel was entirely innocent. “Although unintentional, there is no excuse for the pain that was caused to members of our community,” he said. “I have much to learn and look forward to doing such and encourage all members of our community to do the same.”

[Goofy]

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[Godfather]

"“To be clear, many members of our community were hurt, frightened, and upset "

No they fucking weren't.. they were just desperate to show they're not racist by feigning to be hurt, frightened and upset :roll: Screw everything about these idiots. I still maintain it's the 1% but god damn are they making a mockery of racial issues.

[RBP]

What? Is this the Onion?

[lost in melb.]

But look how the banana is positioned! Clearly designed to inflict microaggressions

[DemonGeminiX]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w26BiK6Baxo&ab_channel=ItzShark

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"“To be clear, many members of our community were hurt, frightened, and upset "

No they fucking weren't.. they were just desperate to show they're not racist by feigning to be hurt, frightened and upset :roll: Screw everything about these idiots. I still maintain it's the 1% but god damn are they making a mockery of racial issues.

An invading force need only stand there and give some terse looks at this generation...and they'll be reduced to tears and shaking all balled up in the fetal position.

"WAAAAAAIL... Stop those bad men from looking at us so much!!!!" :nervous:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Anthony Gockowski, Investigative Reporter - Campus Reform


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One of the students who discovered the banana peel that led the University of Mississippi to abruptly end a Greek Life retreat has explained that her “heart dropped instantly” at the sight.

As Campus Reform reported Thursday, a Greek Life retreat at Ole Miss was promptly cancelled after a banana peel was found hanging in a tree.

A student later revealed that he threw the peel because he could not find a garbage can, but the incident made some students uneasy, so school officials “felt it was imperative to provide space immediately to students affected by this incident.”

One of those students, Makala McNeil, who was one of the first to report the banana peel, wrote a letter to the editor of The Daily Mississippian Thursday, in which she states that she and her peers “understood the potential pitfalls of allowing white journalists to write our story,” and now feel it is necessary to “contextualize the fear that the incident inspired.”

McNeil begins by offering readers a step-by-step narrative of her encounter with the banana peel, writing that her “sorority sister was the first to see it” as they and another student were walking back to their cabins.

“As we approached the cabin, she abruptly stopped. Her eyes widened. Her jaw dropped. She frantically pointed at a tree, exclaiming, ‘Look! Look! In the tree!’ It was a banana, dangling from a limb,” McNeil recounts, noting that her “heart dropped instantly” as she and her companions “began to scan the area around us to see if we were in any immediate harm.”

Her letter goes on to claim that “bananas have historically been used by white people as derogatory to dehumanize and denigrate black people," complaining that while some of the white students "seemed receptive" during a camp-wide meeting to discuss the incident, "others appeared apathetic."

“Even today, bananas remain an intimidation tactic, intended to instill fear in black communities,” she adds, recalling a prior incident at American University where bananas were found dangling from trees the day after the school elected its first female black student body president.

Notably, while student Ryan Swanson claimed he was unable to find a garbage can for the peel, McNeil contends in her letter that there was one located “a few feet away” from where the incident occurred.

She concludes by defending the decision to cancel the remainder of the retreat after the banana peel was discovered, declaring that “whether last weekend’s incident was an honest mistake or a malicious threat,” the response “was valid and authentic, especially given the present state of race relations in our country and at our university.”

McNeil asserts that “this incident is indicative of a broader campus culture,” noting that critics have suggested that students either “fabricated” or “exaggerated” the psychological effect of the fruit.

“It is no exaggeration to say that black students often feel as though they are under attack,” she writes. “We must confront a culture that dismisses black experiences, supporting the notion that constructive dialogue can actually foster a level of cultural understanding amongst different races.”

[Pony]

An invading force need only stand there and give some terse looks at this generation...and they'll be reduced to tears and shaking all balled up in the fetal position.

"WAAAAAAIL... Stop those bad men from looking at us so much!!!!" :nervous:

Civil War 2022: Today the Snowflake army was defeated after the Trump army hurled a final barrage of insults at the SA's entrenched safe space position. There were no survivors.

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Civil War 2022: Today the Snowflake army was defeated after the Trump army hurled a final barrage of insults at the SA's entrenched safe space position. There were no survivors.

After one particularly nasty round of insults....their hearts dropped instantly.

Terms of the surrender will be accepted after the crying stops.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Mocking the hurt they feel is a microaggression

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And hitting them in the face with my dick is a macroagression.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

And hitting them in the face with my dick is a micro-microagression.

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I was swimming :x

[Teh One Who Knocks]

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It is actually quite cool here today :lol:

Back up to 30C in a day or so...