Perry Basketball Players Targeted By Degrading ‘Trump’ Chants
- Thread starter Kenneth Griffin
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All this time and I thought Iowa was a rural liberal bastion...how uninformed I am.
Attitudes like yours DEFINE white privilege, which I'm sure you believe is made up.
This appears to be getting some national attention now. At least it was mentioned on NPR this morning.
Students from 6 area schools, including DCG, showed up to cheer for Perry at their game last night. That really should be the end of this story.
Brings tears to my eyes. Little self-righteous entitled babies. I haven't heard an apology. There needs to be some sort of public acknowledgement of immaturity and wrong-doing by the DC/G folks.
It is a start.
The incident demonstrates a basic of the entire DC/G community. Not only a failure of the students involved but a failure of the parents of these students and of the churches/institutions of the community. Racism and hate speech doesn't just "happen." It is a learned behavior and worse yet, it is encouraged by all surrounding it.
If "we" truly want to end racism in this country, it starts with the family unit and then the family's community. This is a "learning moment" and it should not be pleasant for all involved. That means the students, the communities and the schools!
The exclamation points don't really help drive the point home. We were all kids at one point and I've said my share of dumb stuff. From all accounts I've heard, it was a small group of students. Most likely, they feel like dipsh!ts already for all the attention they're getting. DCG is a pretty fine school, so this is not indicative of their school or their community IMO. Talk of suspending the team or other stuff like that is nonsense and almost embarrassing to suggest frankly. The Perry people have seemed to move on faster than anyone. I don't typically play the overreacting card because some things need to be addressed. This has been addressed already. Anything more is a total overreaction.
The white privilege is strong in this thread.
And what a coincidence that the people who are going to tell me that white privilege is made up have no problem with racist chants.
And what a coincidence that the people who are going to tell me that white privilege is made up have no problem with racist chants.
You forgot to add " look at the University of Iowa faculty and Staff " who shout down the new U of I President. When the " coddled " at the U of I lack the common respect and decorum at a public town hall how can anyone expect any better from a group of publicly educated high school teenagers?
