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In the wake of a racist incident involving a campus fraternity, University of Oklahoma president David Boren issued a scathing response — describing members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon as "disgraceful"

The controversy started Sunday, when a video surfaced showing members of the fraternity signing an incredibly racist song. This morning, Boren gave the fraternity until midnight to get off campus. He issued the declaration in an unusually forceful statement for a college administrator:"

Updated statement attached - DBo pic.twitter.com/xxfiJwCh0P

— David Boren (@President_Boren) March 9, 2015

It's very rare for a university president to criticize students so directly. But Boren arguably doubled down on his stance at aMonday press conference, Boren said he'd "be glad if they left" the university because "we don't provide student services for bigots."

It's hardly controversial to condemn a song peppered with racial slurs that appears to condone lynching. Still, the forcefulness of Boren's statement stands out. For contrast, when a fraternity at Arizona State University threw a racist fraternity party, the university banned the fraternity but in a statement described the organizers as "a few misguided individuals" — not a disgrace to the entire university.

So every rap song loudly played and sung along to at the black fraternity condones killing other blacks, attacking the police, abusing women, and drug use while continuously spewing the n word.... but never will you see a press statement from a university president about this.

I expect the original leaders of the civil rights movement are horrified at rap music and minority campus culture today. They were trying to have people of all races treated equally and not subject to derogatory terms and behavior... and today most of the problems are self-inflicted in the black community.