White Kids Dress as Bananas, Toss Racial Slurs at Blacks
Students at a predominantly white high school near Pittsburgh are being accused of racism after dressing as bananas at a basketball game against a mostly black school. Other students allegedly hurled racial slurs at the black players
It happened at a game at Brentwood High School on Friday. Two students dressed as bananas were in the stands, and when they ran past the Monessen High School fan section and allegedly taunted them, they were kicked out of the game for “causing agitation and disruption,” according to the Brentwood superintendent. A third student was also removed.
However, the superintendent said there was no racist intent.
“The high school students are emulating college students they have seen on television who wear costumes during the collegiate contests,” Ronald Dufalla said in email to The Associated Press. “No high school team, Monessen or otherwise, or their fans are being singled out. This is just something the students do.”
But Monessen parents say they heard slurs like "monkeys" and "cotton pickers" yelled at their children, and the Monessen superintendent said she is not satisfied the Dufalla's explanation.
"Basically, I feel he sugar-coated the situation,” Linda Marcolini told the Independent. “I'm not happy with that, and I feel like I've not been told the whole story or the truth.”
Marcolini said she plans to report the incident to the organization that oversees high school sports in the region.
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And people say that Blacks are the ones causing racism. There ya go. These actions and terms are horrendous and if they are doing it now, one can only imagine what they will do when they grow up to become vile republicans.
I wouldn't call those actions and terms horrendous. I would say they are tasteless, cruel, bad sportsmanship, inhospitable, and unprovoked. I think a good punishment would be to forbid them to have any more home games this season.
We must change these attitudes if we are ever going to have a chance to attract significant numbers of black people back to the Republican part.
But to be honest, I don't think this says anything about the cause of racism; these brats' actions are a result of racism, not a cause of it.
I think it's outrageous that they used the term "cotten-picker" as an insult. It was good honest work.
On the other hand, calling them "monkeys" was inexcusable. That's worse, even, than calling them "apes"!
Back in the day, cotton picker was good honest work unless it was being done without compensation by "chattel" owned by another. The monkey/ape comment is probably lost on most since many do not know there is a difference. Regardless, either one is inexcusable and neither is "worse" than the other.
Even so, you can hardly blame the chattel for their situation. And monkeys are more evolutionarily primitive compared to apes, than apes compared to us.