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No Workplace Policy Can Prevent People From Doing Something Really Stupid

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Jan 22, 2016
This article is part of a series called Classic TLNT.

Editor’s Note: Readers sometimes ask about past TLNT articles, so every Friday we republish a Classic TLNT post.

By Eric B. Meyer

On Martin Luther King Day, I performed community service with a few of my co-workers and my 4-year-old son. We went to a local center and spent a few hours making peanut butter sandwiches to feed the homeless.

Actually, we spent a half-hour or so making sandwiches. Most of us spent the remainder of the time continuing to make sandwiches, while my son ate peanut butter.

Win-win.

But imagine, if instead of performing community service, my co-workers and I decided to host an “MLK Black Party,” where we dressed in basketball jerseys, flashing gang signs and drank from watermelon cups.

An offensive “tribute” to Martin Luther King

KVVU-TV Fox 5 reports that this is exactly what a bunch of knucklehead students from the TKE Fraternity at Arizona State University did on Monday. Below is the video report.

This article is part of a series called Classic TLNT.