article_snippet: One of the University of Oklahoma students who took part in the infamous racist chant wrote that 'the song was taught to us,' passed down through an unknown number of generations at the Oklahoma chapter before finally being exposed.
article_snippet: The chant in the video is ugly.
article_snippet: The chant in the video is demoralizing and absolutely counter to the values of SAE,' Sigma Alpha Epsilon executive director Blaine Ayers said at a press conference in Chicago, describing Sigma Alpha Epsilon executive director Blaine Ayers own disgust at the video.
article_snippet: We are focused on trying to determine the root of this song or this chant, where it came from, that's
article_snippet: We primary focus,' said Ayers, who stated he had never heard the chant.
article_snippet: Bad light: The recording showed a bus driving to an SAE function as two members led the chant, which mentioned lynching black people and declared there would 'never be
article_snippet: The second-ever black member of the Oklahoma chapter, William Bruce James II, expressed the heartbreak he felt after seeing the video of the racist chant. '