The University of Oklahoma chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity has been closed by the national SAE organization after a video began circulating online that reportedly shows several young OU frat brothers in formalwear chanting, “There will never be a nigger SAE” and referring to lynching.* Here’s a copy of the video posted to YouTube by Unheard, an OU advocacy group which the New York Times says was the first to identify the chanters as potential Oklahoma students:
CNN is reporting that the men in the video are part of OU’s SAE chapter, and the national fraternity organization’s statement on the matter appears to imply so as well.
Screen shot/SAE
It’s not clear when the video was filmed.
*Correction, Mar. 10, 2015: This post originally misidentified the University of Oklahoma as Oklahoma University.
