Silence Breeds Racial Injustice, Racial Profiling,Racial Bigotry and the list continues, I'm thankful for the individuals who observed this tremendous injustice and spoke out about it, The burden of justice in america should not be shouldered by some of us, but all of us. Stop dignifying racist conduct with silence-continue to undue this illegal entrapment forcing it's way back-seemingly without consequences.

I guess the internet will change even the way we deal with traditional problems on our society. It is not clear if it will help or worse the situation though.

What about the injustice of affirmative action? Seems to be pretty backwards to me.

Well, that's probably because you are in the priviledged class, alex.

It pains me to see this current display of racism.Today as a country,we celebrated a awesome and historical event. The ground breaking of the Martin Luther King Jr. Monument on the National Mall!! Who would have ever imagined that we (as a country) would still be facing some of the same racist actions and attitudes today as we did years ago.I applaud Gates for his quick denunciation of this sad situation. It could have been worse! For instance- the Duke lacrosse case.

Ray Charles These are the people
Nat King Cole that got into our "white"
Sammy Davis Jr. homes that changed
Chuck Berry that changed the
Richard Pryor face of America.Give
Ella Fitzgerald them a Statue.Let's
Coun Bassy honor them.
Harry Belefonte
Sidney Poitee
James Brown

Three students out of some 45,000 make and post an offensive video. That would be some 0.00667% of the student body. Hardly a trend worthy of this ridiculous amount of attention.

With any group consisting of 45,000, there will some who do not fit the accepted model of behavior. I learned this in statistics and sociology classes at Texas A&M. But of course, I never took Political Correctness, only Political Science!

Get over it!

Bryan J
Houston

People are soooo sensitive...only if it is convenient to their way of thinking.
While this video is most likely offensive..what about the way black "rap" artists portray negative stereotypes? They can use the "N" word all they want...call women, filthy, vile names, and simple get away with it! You don't hear any complaints from these very same people who found this video objectionable. Double standard, to say the least! And until these same people shout and raise sand about it, nothing will change.

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IS RUINING THIS COUNTRY. BRIAN AND BETSY HAS IT RIGHT ON THE MONEY. LIBERALISM IS DEFINITLY CLOSE TO INSANITY.

People
Stop taking up for these unraised savage kids. It all starts in the home. You MUST stomp out this cancer before it has a chance to grow and eat through your soul. All should join in and denounce such action immediately. Then the kids will see the real hero in you. Remember, it starts in the home.

Texas A & M needs to get it's act together. The Corps of Engineers failed at protecting the folks in New Orleans by inferior engineering implementation for the common people while dredging the estuaries which in itself allowed the hurricane to pass without slowing down.

Look like I'm late to the party.
I'm just gonna list a few examples for the record.
I took US History with a self-proclaimed "liberal" professor. Class has a discussion led by TA every Friday; inevitably there would be a discussion on the Vietnam War.
- At the beginning, there was talk about Hugo Chávez criticism of Bush. The TA said something about invading Venezuela and taking it in one week. It was beautiful, considering that the class would later talk about the lessons in Vietnam and the situation in Iraq.
- One guy complained "there wasn't any infrastructure to bomb [in Vietnam]." Perhaps Vietnam should apologize for having nothing valuable for the US to bomb, except people.
- Perhaps I should have said something. A girl said it for me and frankly she surprised me. She said something about the US did not understand the world. There was two or three seconds of silence, then the TA moved the class to another topic. One worthwhile comment of the whole discussion faded just like that.
The university is just like the class discussion. You will hear their statements of equality, lectures by so-called liberal professors, but at the end, they "baby" (breast-feeding baby!) racism. I'm unsure if it's silence of resentment or approval. In HS regular class, some students would give me the finger, but they did so discreetly. In TAMU, they would honk their horn to get your attention, then put their hand out of the window and gave you the finger - in open public.
In case you wonder, I came here because I thought my presence would help, now I start to wonder who I'm helping.