Cal State-San Marcos Sorority Under Fire After Dressing Up As Cholas

Some students at Cal State San Marcos are outraged after a sorority member posted pictures on Instagram that show sorority sisters dressed up like Latina gang members.

Some said it reminded them of the “Compton Cookout” at UC San Diego three years ago that featured disrespectful depictions of African Americans.

“They have no notion or understanding of the ramifications these pictures can create,” said Margarita Uribe. “We don’t feel safe. We feel a constant ridicule or mockery of our culture. We, as students, as Latina, Latino students, we hold a certain privilege that we’re here on this campus, that we’re able to have a higher education access, but the communities that we leave behind, they don’t have the same kind of access that we do, so for us to see the mockery of certain cultures that we co-exist with on the daily, it triggers… it brings something to mind like, ‘Wow, we really don’t matter.’”

The pictures have been pulled off the page where they were posted by a member of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority. The sorority president has apologized, saying they meant no harm when sorority sisters wore the costumes at a retreat. “We apologize from the bottom of our hearts. It was a mistake and a lack of education on our part.”

A spokesperson for CSU San Marcos said no disciplinary action will be taken against the sorority, but that extra diversity training will soon be offered to all students, especially incoming freshmen.

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If this shit is not dipped in cultural appropriation and white privilege. Who in the fuck would wanna make a mockery out of gang culture?! Cholas?! Now, if they get tracked down and get got…