A group of partiers on the roof of a Cornell frat house allegedly taunted black students and threw objects — including an empty Jack Daniels bottle — at them as they passed on the street.
Beverly Fonkwo, a sophomore, says she and a friend were walking home when people began throwing things at them from the Sigma Pi roof. When she confronted the crowd, she says, they threw more trash and a full beer can, saying “come on up here, Trayvon” and making other racist remarks.
The president of the fraternity, Zach Smith, told the Cornell Daily Sun on Sunday that the frat had “figured out who the perpetrator was, and will turn his name over to police.” Smith claimed that only one person was involved in the attack, and that the perpetrator was not a member of the fraternity.
Cornell’s Sigma Pi chapter was suspended for a year in early 2008 as a result of an underage drinking incident that sent four first-year students to the hospital.
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May 7, 2012 at 2:00 pm
Referencing Trayvon Martin, racist slurs and bottles thrown at black students from Cornell frat house
[…] thrown at black students from Cornell frat house By Vanessa | Published: May 7, 2012 This is beyond heinous: A group of partiers on the roof of a Cornell frat house allegedly taunted black students and threw […]
May 8, 2012 at 8:12 am
Minnie
Keep it classy White people. This is the hate you teach your children and they go out and express it. Many of us are not shocked. Your behavior is disgusting and disgraceful. You have to be the most uncivilized of all races. All you want to do is fight, abuse other races. What gives you the right? You’re making fools out of yourselves! Grow the hell up.
May 8, 2012 at 8:18 am
Brandy
NO NO NO! Minnie you can NOT group white people like that for the stupid actions of others. That makes you a racist yourself and no better than them.
May 8, 2012 at 8:38 am
Angus Johnston
Brandy, getting a little overheated about white racism doesn’t make you racist. It certainly doesn’t make you “no better than” someone who throws a bottle at someone because she’s black.
May 8, 2012 at 10:15 am
GigiLane912
Hmmm? I wonder if Billie Boy O’Reilly will exploit this as he is exploiting a white couple allegedly being attacked by crowds of black youth in Virgina, while they taunted Trayvon at the white couple ?
May 10, 2012 at 3:00 am
avantgardactivist
Uh, is there a way to cut out Cannon’s Canon ‘s obviously white supremacist comment?
May 10, 2012 at 12:43 pm
Angus Johnston
Done. Thanks for the heads-up.