Posted on 06/13/2013 4:05:07 PM PDT by re_tail20
U.S. Postal carrier Iran Becton doesn’t take kindly to being the butt of a frat joke.
He’s insulted that members of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity at the University of Chicago were involved in a racist prank that had him needlessly dragging postal supply boxes up to doors of their frat house at 56th and University.
“About a week after Memorial Day, I had an order to bring 79 of the boxes. I came to the address and explained to the frat member that I would have a lot more supplies. I went back to the truck for the boxes about six or seven times,” Becton said.
“After the last trip, one of the frat guys came out and said it was a practical joke. Another guy said that I should read the name backwards and I’ll get the joke.”
The items — all 79 of them — were addressed to “Reggin Toggaf.” Written backward, the first name is a racial slur. The last name is a slur for gay men.
“I was humiliated,” said Becton, an African American.
I was unable to reach any of the members of the Phi Delta Theta-Illinois Beta fraternity, whose address is listed on the university’s website, but no phone number.
But Mack Julion, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, Branch 11, said he paid a visit to the frat house last Saturday and spoke with the group’s former president.
“Their contention was it was a practical joke, but we don’t think it was funny, the letter carrier doesn’t think it was funny, and it doesn’t reflect well on the university,” Julion told me.
Julion said the fraternity told him the “joke” was being played on them and was not meant to offend Becton.
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I vote with the mailman. This goes well beyond a “prank.”
I agree. It was beyond any reasonable definition of a prank.
On the other hand, he is getting paid by the hour.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
That frat is lucky this mailman didn’t decide to make their lives miserable. You’re walking a thin line to say anything racial these days, and had he chosen to press charges, he probably could have owned the place.
This kind of mindless nonsense is why I never joined a fraternity. IMO, a bunch of followers who do what they are told.
Reversing the names? How clever/s
Just make everyone of them walk that postal route with the mailman..one at at time. It isn’t a good neighborhood and they might learn something.
And the company was paying. So, I guess they were stealing by fraud.
The homophobic slur “teabagger” never made headlines when President Obama and that faggot Anderson Cooper used it to slur patriotic men, women, and children.
Given today’s climate the prank was an inappropriate bit of resistance.
The University of Chicago is a private institution, not a state university.
Higher education from the enlightened city of Chicago. What does U of C “Professor” Obama think?
I smell a lawsuit in the making.Sorry,I can't get that worked up about this.Stupid...classless,yah! Of course the mailman has the right to be annoyed.But humiliated? Good God...when Occupy Wall Street was in overdrive and getting all that publicity I went down to check it out and the responses I got to several legitimate questions I put to a couple of participants would make a sailor blush...and a saint want to throttle the unwashed parasites in question.
I didn't sue.I wasn't even "humiliated".
The University will probably yank the fraternity’s charter.
Hard to imagine that stuff still going on in 2013.
If I were the company, I’d certainly go after whomever is responsible for making the call.
What ever happened to “Boy’s will be boy’s ?”
“Man up”
You want respect ?
Cry cry cry. That won’t work.
Rude ? yes, SO what........
Deal with it.
And guess what ?
When you take on and stand up to intimidating, rude, obnoxious, childish, bullies you get the respect you deserve.
There is no respect from running to some authority to solve your problems.
agree with every word, today people get insulted at every chance.
So frigging what, we are being spied on and insulted and called racist etc but that is OK when the media and the left does it
I’m a fraternity adviser. You have to really stay on them.
Does the University of Chicago get funds from the state? Yes.
Do they get money from the Federal government? Yes.
Are students’ educations in many cases funded in whole or in part by the state or the federal government? Yes.
Is the same true of tenured, other, and “assistant” professors as well as teaching assistants and graduate students? Yes.
Hillsdale College (NOT my Alma Mater) is a Private Institution. The University of Chicago is a bloated, crime-infested mess relying of all things on its shredded reputation as a center for graduate sociology studies.
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