Legit101 299 February 9, 2012 Share February 9, 2012 (edited) http://sports.yahoo....-131740578.html For years this school team has had 3 guys dress up as bananas and run across the bleachers, years and years... against white teams. But now... when it's a black team, it's 100% plain racism. Just for clarification, no racial slurs were said. I swear people can find racism in anything. Edited June 4, 2012 by Tichonea 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starshine 16,330 February 9, 2012 Share February 9, 2012 http://www.wpxi.com/videos/news/upset-fans-say-racial-slurs-were-yelled-during/vF2Cp/ "monkeys and cotton pickers" are racial slur enough to me :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legit101 299 February 9, 2012 Author Share February 9, 2012 (edited) http://www.wpxi.com/...d-during/vF2Cp/ "monkeys and cotton pickers" are racial slur enough to me :/ Just for clarification, no racial slurs were said. A case of he said she said. They've been doing the whole banana thing for years. She says the fans were calling them monkeys and cotton pickers, thing is, you can't be sure. Other students and parents have said that it didn't happen. Main point is that they're saying that the banana suits are racist even though they've been doing it to every team for years and years. More extreme case of the same thing. http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm30cepvMQA Edited February 9, 2012 by Lucifer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starshine 16,330 February 9, 2012 Share February 9, 2012 Fair enough, there's no direct video evidence about the racial slur But are you sure they've been doing this for years as some kind of tradition? Can;t find that anywhere in the article (or I just missed them totally) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legit101 299 February 9, 2012 Author Share February 9, 2012 Fair enough, there's no direct video evidence about the racial slur But are you sure they've been doing this for years as some kind of tradition? Can;t find that anywhere in the article (or I just missed them totally) Positive. It's not on the article, because it's one sided. Why do you think that the team didn't freak out about the guys in banana suits? Because it's nothing new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starshine 16,330 February 9, 2012 Share February 9, 2012 Hm... Because most of us won't freaked out if some madmare dancing crazy in front of our enemies? It's a basketball game, Pittsburgh Brentwood(45) vs Monessen(59), I guess it's just normal to see a bunch of friendly crazies making fun of the opposing side. Not because it was a normal tradition. Quoting a bit from this one: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/valleyindependent/sports/s_780275.html After the buzzer sounded for halftime, though, things took a disgusting turn. Two or three members of the Brentwood student section donned full-body banana costumes and decided to run around the Greyhound players using racial slurs and referring to them as monkeys. Being at the scorer's table, I couldn't hear every-thing that came from the student section. I didn't need to, though. I had heard enough. Did Brentwood's Director of Security Joseph Kozarian do anything? No. At one point he was smiling and laughing with the entire student section. ... Monessen's Chavas Rawlins was also intentionally shoved into wall and doors under the hoop while going in for a layup by Brentwood's Joe Pilarski. The talented junior, who has a promising football career ahead of him, left the Monessen fans breathless as he held his knee in pain. He did return to the game a few minutes later. I guess there's enough hate in that place Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whinny-Millie 28 February 9, 2012 Share February 9, 2012 If they'd been doing it for ages, claiming racism is just ridiculous... Though what someone already said on this topic is true: You can find racism anywhere if you try hard enough. It's just how our culture has developed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legit101 299 February 9, 2012 Author Share February 9, 2012 Quoting a bit from this one: http://www.pittsburg...s/s_780275.htmlguess there's enough hate in that place I wouldn't trust anything in that article from their other lies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanPolo 150 February 9, 2012 Share February 9, 2012 Im not even gonna begin to get worked up about this as the article is clearly one sided. Even if it was rasist, its just 3 school kids who have since been diciplined. Ive seen far worse things happen at my school... Its never become news before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyreth 193 February 9, 2012 Share February 9, 2012 Took me about five minutes to realise how someone could even call that racist. My view on racism is that its all about intention. Different people take things different ways but personally, as long as its just a bit of fun for everyone involved I don't have a problem with it. Those people obviously weren't intending to discriminate, they were just having some fun and entertaining the crowd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Rarity Pony 4,892 February 9, 2012 Share February 9, 2012 I think some people have forgotten how to interpret whether something is racist or whether it has nothing to do with race. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrooveBroove 680 February 9, 2012 Share February 9, 2012 I think some people have forgotten how to interpret whether something is racist or whether it has nothing to do with race. I found this post racist. Lol j/k but I completely agree, the race card is one card that is quickly played very often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 890 February 9, 2012 Share February 9, 2012 "monkeys and cotton pickers" are racial slur enough to me :/ Cotton pickers is quite racist in my opinion. But as others have said, they never showed any racist comments in the video. Also the entire thing seems to be a one-sided dogmatic argument. More extreme case of the same thing. http-~~-//www.youtube.c...h?v=Rm30cepvMQA That's clearly not racist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evilshy 5,089 February 9, 2012 Share February 9, 2012 Computers are racist, guys. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shankveld 4,945 February 9, 2012 Share February 9, 2012 A friend of mine did an entire essay about white racism, in the essay he included a story about school that started a black only club, where yeah you guess it, only black people could join, other races began doing the same thing, but when the whites made their white only clubs they were brought to court over a hate crime. ~ All my black friends told me they had never experienced racism against them, but I have experienced racism against being white "We don't hang out with pasteys" ~ For some universities and colleges, if you are native and black you require a lower average to get excepted then if you are white. It's 2011 now, all races have equal rights, and as long as your white, your racist ! ~ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffffff 50 February 9, 2012 Share February 9, 2012 Computers are racist, guys. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 890 February 9, 2012 Share February 9, 2012 Computers are racist, guys. I repeat this expression of disdain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellow Diamond 7,561 February 9, 2012 Share February 9, 2012 Freedom of speech is a two way street: if you say something which is unpopular, expect to hear the response. People often forget that and run behind the "LIEBERULS ARE MAKING AMERICA PC!!!" line. No. You said something stupid; people have a right to respond. In this case, it doesn't matter if they've been dressing students up as bananas since the school's foundation: if you are playing a team of predominantly African-American players, what type of response are you expecting? It's racially and culturally tone deaf, and it escapes me how anyone could have allowed this at an administrative level. It would be like dressing up as pigs and oinking in front of a Jewish team. Think before you leap. There is a wide gulf between this incident and petty racism claims. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynic 336 February 9, 2012 Share February 9, 2012 A case of he said she said. They've been doing the whole banana thing for years. She says the fans were calling them monkeys and cotton pickers, thing is, you can't be sure. Other students and parents have said that it didn't happen. Main point is that they're saying that the banana suits are racist even though they've been doing it to every team for years and years. More extreme case of the same thing. http-~~-//www.youtube.c...h?v=Rm30cepvMQA That's Fox News. They're about as reliable a news source as The Onion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crispy 5,563 February 9, 2012 Share February 9, 2012 Accusations of racism because people haven't learned to just relate on a human level for some reason yet. http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=gutCFMc5khY 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akemi Homura 7,680 February 9, 2012 Share February 9, 2012 http://sports.yahoo....-131740578.html For years this school team has had 3 guys dress up as bananas and run across the bleachers, years and years... against white teams. But now... when it's a black team, it's 100% plain racism. Just for clarification, no racial slurs were said. I swear people can find racism in anything. Racism at a sports event? Wow, what a surprise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuteycindyhoney 13,283 February 9, 2012 Share February 9, 2012 Am I the only one who remembers this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVOQJQYCbSE Guys runnin' around in banana suits IS NOT RACIST! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom The Diamond 1,828 February 9, 2012 Share February 9, 2012 This, my friends, is the classic display of the age old Double Standerd! Where it is completely acceptable for one person to do it, but if someone else does it, then prepare your fire and holy water! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizz. 1,078 February 9, 2012 Share February 9, 2012 Woah, talk about media bias. Isn't the media supposed to report things? Reminds me exactly of the early 1900s reporters who would hate against blacks, though this is turned around. I would say the writer be fired, but I guess he's a blogger? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Join the herd!Sign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now