High school football incidents spark racism talks, programs

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

High school football incidents spark racism talks, programs

By CLIFF BRUNT
December 22, 2022

Superintendent Torie Gibson felt she had no choice but to make the unpopular decision. When learning Amador High’s football team had a group chat titled, “Kill the Blacks,” filled with derogatory language and racial slurs, she ended the Northern California school’s varsity season.

That meant the 100-year anniversary game between rivals Amador and Argonaut was called off.

“We canceled the football season, and we did it for all the right reasons because the behavior is not acceptable,” ...

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The incident at Amador was one of several alarming examples of racism against Black people that occurred this fall in high school football around the nation. Athletes in the past were able to leave racism and other issues off the field, but today not even sports settings are immune from real world problems.

Administrators in some cases have used these incidents to start conversations about race that have been hard for them to bring up before and roll out programs they hope will have lasting impact.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/sports-california-sacramento-high-school-football-racism-7c38bcf7ea66b4bcb2202e6c2da09bb2

[brewens]

1. I'd love to see the hate mail, posts or phone messages she got over that. There is no way that

didn't happen.

[OldBaldy1701E]

2. Excuse me?

Athletes in the past were able to leave racism and other issues off the field...

Forgive me Mr. Blunt, but you obviously never played high school sports of any kind. Those issues are always on the field even if most of the team don't like it. I applaud Superintendent Gibson for making a choice that will make sure the position of the school as regards the behavior of the privileged jocks who think they are better than everyone is not to be questioned. I agree that she is probably getting inundated with hate right now, but the people who are complaining are probably the parents of the same racists teens who caused this to happen. No loss here. Just reality raining on a few BDFJ wannabes who cant wait to get to college and join the Young Rethuglicans.

(BDFJ=Big Dumb Frat Jock)