When the contents of the cell phone video went viral, it caused a nationwide uproar about the identity of the students on that bus who joined in the singing of that death anthem and those who acquiesced to it by continuing to be associated with that bus of death.

Thankfully, the university officials took rapid action and expelled the chapter from the campus and to date have expelled two males who were clearly identified with such hate speech and condoning or endorsing acts of domestic terrorism against black people.

What needs to be fully explored and discussed is a phrase that I am coining called, The SAE Syndrome.

From that incident, I coined the moniker, "SAE Syndrome" because of what was caught on tape and exposed to the Internet world.

Also, the phrase, The SAE Syndrome, is a way by which I can expound on the phenomenon of the undisclosed tell-tale signs of a SAE Syndrome propagating itself beyond the campus of Oklahoma University.

To unpack what this SAE Syndrome does and how it inculcates itself into the warp and woof of society, you have to start at the beginning of how a person accepts and processes information and either keeps it or deletes it from their memory cells.

This learning and gathering concept is akin to you learning to swim for the first time. If you like the water, you will continue to take swim lessons and become proficient enough of a swimmer, that when needed, you can protect yourself in most situations involving water.

Or, if you do not like water or getting wet or being around pools or beaches, you will tell yourself that swimming is not your sport and you will disengage from it and try out other means of physical sport or leisure.

In the first example of one who takes to the water and likes it, you will not pass up chances to improve your proficiency at swimming and when you have opportunities to go to hotels that have pools, you can relax knowing that the water poses no threat to you.

Well, in some ways, the SAE Syndrome operates in the same fashion when you transfer the same swimming skills to life skills and interpersonal relationship skills.

If you find individuals who believe as you do and engage in conduct that you do not find abhorrent, you will continue in that same vein; and practice what you have learned or observed from that cultural or ethnic group in your daily life and interactions with other

third parties.

With the SAE Syndrome, those ousted Oklahoma University students were ostensibly a member of a local fraternity chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon in which they associated with like-minded members who, according to the cell phone video, were also engaged in similar horrid racist behavior and did so with apparent relish.

They could do so because there was no one in their immediate circle of friends who would chastise them for such anti-social behavior (lynching is clearly anti-social behavior!) nor apparently did they receive enough home correction or instruction to make it known to them that such egregious conduct was reprehensible.

So, when such like-minded individuals gather together and then let’s factor in the lubricant of alcohol, such deviant thoughts are allowed to come to the forefront and are exhibited because the fear of being challenged or rebuked is not present.

Thus when the travelers on that bus (going to the a banquet regarding the founders of their beloved fraternity) started to speak out on the abundance of their hearts, we get not only racial restrictions for membership into their fraternity but also the rip roaring funny idea that lynching black folks from trees is a great idea!

We get these future leaders engaging in racial animus of the type that would make the founders of the KKK wipe tears of joy from their eyes.

When these students graduate and go into their particular fields of endeavor and those fields include human resource managers at corporations or judges in courts of law or benefits administrators for social programs or administrators of hospitals and police departments, we have a monumental problem.

The problem is that such acidic verbiage against people of color as exhibited on that lynching bus can and may transfer to conscious and unconscious decisions that those fraternity members will make regarding your well-being and the quality of life that you may experience.

A person who robustly sings a song about hanging black people from trees is not too adverse in denying a DeMarcus Winters a promotion to a department chair.

Or, refusing to transfer a qualified Shauntae Williams to a plum job spot in Hawaii but gives that job to a white person who does not have the stellar resume of a Shauntae.

Or, decides to ax programs that benefit needy children who require medical or dental care because they live in a certain inner-city zip code.

But worse is the myriad of situations by which people of color are flummoxed by what happened to their careers or ability to freely negotiate financial issues or other areas of their lives. The only reason is that their race played a factor in such a denial or blockage.

And when you try to wrack your brain to backtrack to find out the source of what went wrong with your career aspirations and goals but yet others, who are similarly-situated white people achieving success, if you stand still and if you listen… oh so closely, you will hear the now faint and lusty cheers of the lynching song being again played out on that bus and you are the lynched party.

That my friend makes you a victim of the SAE Syndrome. And yet, no matter how hard you try to explain to your white counterparts that something is amiss and you just can’t put your finger on it, you now know in your gut of guts that when you sit quietly and listen very closely, you will hear the silent refrains of that fraternity song of lynching n*****s from trees coming from a corporate board room or the executive washroom or from the members-only golf course locker room.

Did white America gasp and cry when they saw that video of some of their best and brightest practicing up for the rest of their lives with songs of degradation and murder and domestic terrorism?

Did white America get a fleeting glimpse of the genesis of how the new recruits for their jobs are being trained to take their place as the future

power brokers and decision makers in America?