The Root

Nearly two weeks after issuing a strong condemnation of a racist chant that reverberated across the nation and resulted in the closing of the University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter, SAE leaders on Friday acknowledged that the song was likely taught at a national event four years ago, CNN reports.

Members of the group’s University of Oklahoma chapter “likely learned a racist chant while attending a national Leadership School about four years ago,” executive director Blaine Ayers said in a statement about the annual event, which involves hundreds of leaders during a six-day conference. read more…