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47of74

(18,470 posts) Fri Jan 26, 2018, 12:19 PM Jan 2018

Racist chants rain down on Iowa high school basketball team

Authorities say some student spectators at a predominantly white school in northwest Iowa greeted a visiting rival boys' basketball team with racist chants.

The chants and slogans at the Jan. 19 game at Spencer High School included some fans yelling that the Storm Lake players should "go back where you came from." Other students chanted, "USA."

The school superintendents say the Storm Lake district has 2,400 students, and 84 percent are non-Caucasian. The Spencer district has 1,900 students and is predominantly white.

Spencer Superintendent Terry Hemann told The Des Moines Register that administrators have disciplined the Spencer students involved, but he declined to provide details.

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Racist chants rain down on Iowa high school basketball team (Original Post) 47of74 Jan 2018 OP

I wonder what type of discipline they got. Ohiogal Jan 2018 #1

Some little slap on the wrist I suppose. lkinwi Jan 2018 #4

Back when I was growing up the schools would punish the entire class just to get one or two students 47of74 Jan 2018 #7

Deplorables who will vote in lunasun Jan 2018 #2

Lest we think it was an isolated incident The Polack MSgt Jan 2018 #3

Disgusting...I didn't see any opposing views in the referenced link, it ... SWBTATTReg Jan 2018 #5

Northwest Iowa, of course TacoD Jan 2018 #6

2 years ago we had a similar incident in central Iowa rurallib Jan 2018 #8

Ohiogal

(34,820 posts)

1. I wonder what type of discipline they got.

Reply to 47of74 (Original post)

Fri Jan 26, 2018, 12:24 PM

Jan 2018

lkinwi

(1,526 posts)

4. Some little slap on the wrist I suppose.

Reply to Ohiogal (Reply #1)

Fri Jan 26, 2018, 12:46 PM

Jan 2018

And their racist relatives will be outraged that there was any discipline.

47of74

(18,470 posts)

7. Back when I was growing up the schools would punish the entire class just to get one or two students

Reply to lkinwi (Reply #4)

Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:28 PM

Jan 2018

And tell any parents who complained to go fuck themselves.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)

2. Deplorables who will vote in

Reply to 47of74 (Original post)

Fri Jan 26, 2018, 12:25 PM

Jan 2018

The Polack MSgt

(13,430 posts)

3. Lest we think it was an isolated incident

Reply to 47of74 (Original post)

Fri Jan 26, 2018, 12:33 PM

Jan 2018

Here is the last line of the article:

A similar situation occurred during a football game last October between the rival schools.

never a Klan smiley when you need one.

Steve King is a full out White Supremacist and is untouchable in that state, so ...Yeah, not shocked

SWBTATTReg

(24,140 posts)

5. Disgusting...I didn't see any opposing views in the referenced link, it ...

Reply to 47of74 (Original post)

Fri Jan 26, 2018, 01:39 PM

Jan 2018

would be interesting to hear the other side of other students who were NOT subscribing to this idiotic chanting.

I suspect that most decent people sided w/ the rival boys' basketball team, in not chanting this nonsense.

I also suspect that when these kids go on to higher levels of education, and start dealing w/ the outside world, that they are going to have to 'grow up' and be mature adults (the home school students).

TacoD

(581 posts)

6. Northwest Iowa, of course

Reply to 47of74 (Original post)

Fri Jan 26, 2018, 01:55 PM

Jan 2018

Steve King country

rurallib

(63,207 posts)

8. 2 years ago we had a similar incident in central Iowa

Reply to TacoD (Reply #6)

Fri Jan 26, 2018, 08:36 PM

Jan 2018

towns around DM.
Perry has meat packing plants where Mexicans were brought in decades ago to bust unions.
Perry players were subjected to racist chants (well "Trump" to be specific) during a game with Dallas Center-Grimes.
So it ain't just King country.
eta - link. - https://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/01/us/midwest-trump-school-chants/index.html

Iowa has really become a very unwelcoming place in the past decade.
Noi doubt we have hate radio, FUX News and hate TV to thank.

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