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TexasTowelie

(116,899 posts) Tue Jan 16, 2018, 02:21 AM Jan 2018

Arkansas college to investigate allegations of fans' racist chants at basketball games, official say

An Arkansas community college will investigate allegations that fans attending basketball games yelled monkey noises and crow caws at black opponents, an official said Monday.

North Arkansas College men’s and women’s basketball teams played Labette Community College in Harrison on Wednesday, the teams' online schedules show. On Saturday, the Parsons Sun, a southeast Kansas newspaper that covers the Labette teams, reported that the visiting players were met with racist chants.

Video footage of the game showed a member of the North Arkansas crowd cawing like a crow several times when black Labette players shot free throws, according to the Sun.

North Arkansas fans were also said to have made monkey noises directed at Labette players, often when the visiting team was on offense.

Read more: http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2018/jan/15/basketball-fans-arkansas-college-yelled-racist-cha/

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Arkansas college to investigate allegations of fans' racist chants at basketball games, official say (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jan 2018 OP

Harrison happens to be... wcmagumba Jan 2018 #1

it's widespread,but harrison is the epicenter withoutapaddle Jan 2018 #3

Unfortunately this is typical behavior withoutapaddle Jan 2018 #2

I hear ya... wcmagumba Jan 2018 #4

wcmagumba

(3,166 posts)

1. Harrison happens to be...

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Jan 16, 2018, 02:41 AM

Jan 2018

headquarters for some KKK faction and has always been known
as a hotbed for racism...just a short drive from the progressive
bastion Branson, MO...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/inside-most-racist-town-america-9328501
This story certainly sounds plausible considering the neighborhood...disgusting
deplorables...

withoutapaddle

(263 posts)

3. it's widespread,but harrison is the epicenter

Reply to wcmagumba (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 16, 2018, 03:38 PM

Jan 2018

https://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2018/01/11/jacksonville-resident-reports-arson-theft-a-poisoned-dog-and-an-ominous-message-move-n-r

KARK Channel 4 has an interview with an African-American man in Jacksonville who says he has been the victim of racially-fueled harassment and vandalism at his home over the past six months, including having his dog poisoned, his truck stolen and his garage and its contents destroyed by arson, with the perpetrator apparently spray painting "Move n****r" on the outside of the burned building.

Kevyn Fowler told KARK that last August, he found his three-year-old English bulldog Sasha dead in her backyard pen, poisoned. A week later, someone stole a truck from Fowler's yard. Then, in December, his garage was destroyed by fire, with investigators later finding the message spray-painted on the back of the building.

Jacksonville PD is reportedly investigating the incidents.

withoutapaddle

(263 posts)

2. Unfortunately this is typical behavior

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Jan 16, 2018, 03:28 PM

Jan 2018

from that area of the state. I feel like I'm in living in ground zero.

wcmagumba

(3,166 posts)

4. I hear ya...

Reply to withoutapaddle (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 16, 2018, 04:31 PM

Jan 2018

I lived in the Branson/Springfield area for the last 17 years
but now back in my home state of Kansas...just as bad
here but in a larger metro area so there is more diversity
and fight back...

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