We live in a day and age where before anybody says or does something that affects the mass population, they must be cautious not to make their comments or actions related to race, no matter how remotely correlated they are.

Sometimes, however, minority groups need to be a little less hasty when they throw out the racial trump card.

Recently, the UW-Madison Police Department decided to cancel a party that would have kicked off Hispanic Heritage Month. It was scheduled by the fraternity Lambda Theta Phi, a Hispanic fraternity on campus, according to an article in the Daily Cardinal.

Officers found out the party was going to take place through a Facebook advertisement, which also tipped them off to the size of the party, which they determined to be too large for the facility and for officers to handle.

The party was to take place at the Memorial Union Terrace on campus at the same time the Badgers were playing football at Camp Randall. Because the events were on the same day, officers decided they wouldn’t be able to handle two large crowds safely, and therefore canceled the event. Fraternity members claim the event was canceled along racial lines.

Officers have a legitimate reason to cancel the event based on safety concerns, especially since the event would have taken place at a campus facility. And the fraternity does not have a warranted claim that the canceling was based solely along racial lines, as of yet.

Another issue here is why the police department and fraternity did not work together to come up with an equitable solution they could both agree to.

There are too many questions that need to be answered before the group would be warranted in making the broad assumption that the cancellation was based entirely, or even partly, on race.