Online fundraiser created for black chef of 'racist' fraternity

theGRIO REPORT - On Monday, the University of Oklahoma kicked a fraternity off campus because of racist songs sung by members in a viral video. But that means Howard Dixon, the black chef for the fraternity, is out of a job...

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On Monday, the University of Oklahoma kicked a fraternity off campus because of racist songs sung by members in a viral video.

But that means Howard Dixon, the black chef for the fraternity, is out of a job.

Dixon has worked for SAE for fifteen years and considers the fraternity members “family.” When shown the video and asked how he felt about the chants, he seemed frustrated.

“I think that was kind of stupid and selfish for them to do something like that,” Dixon said. “And knowing this is an organization, and knowing this is an organization that’s supposed to be about brotherhood. That wasn’t no brotherhood.”

But one SAE is taking that spirit of brotherhood to heart. Blake Burkhart set up an Indiegogo account to help raise funds for Dixon until he can find a new job in order “to make the best of a bad situation and give Howard some financial stability while he is forced to look for a job due to circumstances outside of his control.”

“That man is going to walk up to the SAE house tomorrow morning and hear that he no longer has a job,” Burkhart wrote on the fundraising page. “He is going to learn who has been working for. And through some cruel twist of fate, he has to lose the job that he has held for over a decade. He is going to lose his job because of a bus full of racist kids.”

“You know and I know that this isn’t the house we lived in,” he added. “I’m positive Howard knows this too.”

As of Tuesday morning, the page has raised over $39,000 of its $50,000 goal.

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