Ugly Racist Incident In NCAA Game Yesterday

[NYCRedmen]

 So Miss students chant "where's your green card" to Latino K-State player.

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bfD3p?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=college-basketball

 

[gman]

 That is terrible. The kids should be kicked out out school. At the very least suspended for a semester. Make them learn a lesson.

 

[rcatalano]

A bit Draconian, don't you think. Have you ever been to a Duke game???? 

 

[jerseyshorejohnny]

Diversity stats for So. Miss. as per U.S. News

http://premium.usnews.com/best-coll...rn-mississippi-2441/student-life/student-body 

 

[BrookJersey Redmen]

Don't some southern schools have their bands play "Dixie"?

A de facto Anthem for the confederacy and about a black former slave pining for the plantation days of his birth. Sung by blackface white minstrel performers.

OFFENSIVE foul there too. 

 

[STJ11Redmen]

 That is terrible. The kids should be kicked out out school. At the very least suspended for a semester. Make them learn a lesson.

 

Come on, that won't teach them a lesson that will just ruin their life. Kick them out of the band, maybe, but kick them out of school altogether?

 

[FranWho?]

 I'm sorry, this wasn't right, nor am I defending it, but I think that everyone is overreacting a bit here. I really wouldn't call this an "ugly racist incident." Inappropriate, yes, but nothing to kick someone out of school over. As someone else indicated, the Duke kids do this type of stuff all the time. But no one complains, because it's Duke.

 

[ZanMan]

 Patrick Ewing can't read this.

 

[jerseyshorejohnny]

Not to condone the action by any stretch, but I can remember some of the truly vile things said about Patrick Ewing when he was at Georgetown. He was, without a doubt, the subject of some despicable things especially early on in his collegiate career. These were ugly and racist.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but let's not go after a squirrel with a cannon (to use an Al McGuire phase from years ago). 

I think there are other, more measured, alternatives than kicking them out of school

 

[fuchsia]

 Make them attend sensitivity training...in Spanish

 

[gman]

 That is terrible. The kids should be kicked out out school. At the very least suspended for a semester. Make them learn a lesson.

 

Come on, that won't teach them a lesson that will just ruin their life. Kick them out of the band, maybe, but kick them out of school altogether?

 

GIve me a break, it wouldn't ruin their lives. I know plenty of kids who have been kicked out of college for disciplinary actions. They transfer somewhere else. All of them wound up just fine unless they were busted for drugs.

 

[gman]

 I'm sorry, this wasn't right, nor am I defending it, but I think that everyone is overreacting a bit here. I really wouldn't call this an "ugly racist incident." Inappropriate, yes, but nothing to kick someone out of school over. As someone else indicated, the Duke kids do this type of stuff all the time. But no one complains, because it's Duke.

 

I don't know about that. Coach K gets on the kids about some chants. He ever made then stop chanting Fire Javis

http://www.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/stories/121903aat.html

 

[tom in salem]

 Make them attend sensitivity training...in Spanish

 


Many karma points. Still laughing.

 

[beast of the east]

 That is terrible. The kids should be kicked out out school. At the very least suspended for a semester. Make them learn a lesson.

 

Come on, that won't teach them a lesson that will just ruin their life. Kick them out of the band, maybe, but kick them out of school altogether?

 

GIve me a break, it wouldn't ruin their lives. I know plenty of kids who have been kicked out of college for disciplinary actions. They transfer somewhere else. All of them wound up just fine unless they were busted for drugs.

 

Make them transfer to schools in Mexico.

 

[T6K0E6]

It was another example of the ignorance and arrogance that has been taught to and sweeps the students of our nation.
Little do they probably know that this latino player is actually a native of Puerto Rico and therefore a natural born citizen of this country.
The player did show class by politely accepting the personal apologies from the president and AD of the university and then informing them of his citizenship rights.

Maybe an American History class might be the correct punishment for these kids.

 

[logen]

It was another example of the ignorance and arrogance that has been taught to and sweeps the students of our nation.
Little do they probably know that this latino player is actually a native of Puerto Rico and therefore a natural born citizen of this country.
The player did show class by politely accepting the personal apologies from the president and AD of the university and then informing them of his citizenship rights.

Maybe an American History class might be the correct punishment for these kids.

 

Unfortunately, racism and nationalism are part of the human experience, doesn't make it right but it exists in all cultures. My son, who is white, took plenty of verbal abuse from black players for being white; he understood that in 99.9% of the time it was not personal, they were just trying to get in his head and off his game. For players he went up against multiple times and got to know it was often laughed about after games. I realize trash talking within the game is a little different than chanting from the stands but like it or not it is part of the game. Personally, I believe the kinds of incident referenced in the thread gets much more power from the overreaction that usually accompanies them.

 

[kranmars]

It was another example of the ignorance and arrogance that has been taught to and sweeps the students of our nation.
Little do they probably know that this latino player is actually a native of Puerto Rico and therefore a natural born citizen of this country.
The player did show class by politely accepting the personal apologies from the president and AD of the university and then informing them of his citizenship rights.

Maybe an American History class might be the correct punishment for these kids.

 

Unfortunately, racism and nationalism are part of the human experience, doesn't make it right but it exists in all cultures. My son, who is white, took plenty of verbal abuse from black players for being white; he understood that in 99.9% of the time it was not personal, they were just trying to get in his head and off his game. For players he went up against multiple times and got to know it was often laughed about after games. I realize trash talking within the game is a little different than chanting from the stands but like it or not it is part of the game. Personally, I believe the kinds of incident referenced in the thread gets much more power from the overreaction that usually accompanies them.

 

+1

Remember, our student section made absurd chants referencing gays against Arizona. Stupid is going to do stupid. The university correctly apologized. Trying to find all of the students who chanted and making them an , example by suspending them is too much, imo.

 

[beast of the east]

It was another example of the ignorance and arrogance that has been taught to and sweeps the students of our nation.
Little do they probably know that this latino player is actually a native of Puerto Rico and therefore a natural born citizen of this country.
The player did show class by politely accepting the personal apologies from the president and AD of the university and then informing them of his citizenship rights.

Maybe an American History class might be the correct punishment for these kids.

 

Real ignorance is the presumption that every person of Mexican descent has arrived illegally in this country. A friend of mine, an SJU graduate, married a Mexican American from Arizona. When I asked her how long her family has lived in the US, she said 150 years. Foolishly not thinking that long before the US expanded westward, Mexican people inhabited parts of what is now Texas, California, Arizona, and New Mexico.

 

[beast of the east]

It was another example of the ignorance and arrogance that has been taught to and sweeps the students of our nation.
Little do they probably know that this latino player is actually a native of Puerto Rico and therefore a natural born citizen of this country.
The player did show class by politely accepting the personal apologies from the president and AD of the university and then informing them of his citizenship rights.

Maybe an American History class might be the correct punishment for these kids.

 

Unfortunately, racism and nationalism are part of the human experience, doesn't make it right but it exists in all cultures. My son, who is white, took plenty of verbal abuse from black players for being white; he understood that in 99.9% of the time it was not personal, they were just trying to get in his head and off his game. For players he went up against multiple times and got to know it was often laughed about after games. I realize trash talking within the game is a little different than chanting from the stands but like it or not it is part of the game. Personally, I believe the kinds of incident referenced in the thread gets much more power from the overreaction that usually accompanies them.

 

Read Charles Barkley's book about racism against white players. It does exist. Your son laughed it off, but had he returned the taunts with his own racially based comments, no one would have laughed.

 

[fuchsia]

 When NYU was still D1 they played at Georgetown with students from Georgetown leading cheers under the basket dressed as Nazis and Arabs.