[Sen's Revenge]

APO has it's own troubled history with racism as well. A look at the Torch & Trefoil archives will show a photo of APO brothers in blackface in the 50s or so, as part of a jungle party theme or some such.

It's part of nearly all of our organization's history and just because it's in the past doesn't mean it doesn't get to be discussed in context.

What's interesting to me is not that it happened, but that such language was actually in the organization's national magazine. We often view racism as an impolite, behind-closed-doors activity, when in reality, racism is a structure. Racism is not cured by the people in power simply moving on. We've got to also dissect where we went wrong along the way.

There's not much spiritual or psychological distance between doing the darky shuffle 90 years ago and chanting "there will never be a nigger SAE" last year.