A Buffalo girls basketball team was suspended after the players allegedly used a racial slur as part of their pregame cheer.
Tyra Batts, the sole African-American on the Kenmore East High School’s squad, told the Buffalo News that her teammates would hold hands before the game, say a prayer and then shout "One, two, three (n------)."
The practice came to light when Tyra was suspended for getting into a fight about the use of racial slurs during practice, according to the newspaper.
She said that she was alarmed by the cheer, but had been outnumbered and told that the use of the slur was just a team tradition.
"I said, 'You're not allowed to say that word because I don't like that word,'" she told the newspaper. "They said, 'You know we're not racist, Tyra. It's just a word, not a label.' I was outnumbered."
The 15-year-old eventually exploded after a practice when a teammate called her a 'black piece of (expletive).’ She says she got into a fight with the girl later in school.
"It was a buildup of anger and frustration at being singled out of the whole team," she told the newspaper.
Tyra’s suspension was shortened after the principal learned of the racial allegations. At least a dozen girls were suspended.
Some of the team's former players who took to Twitter seemed to have little knowledge of any “tradition” the team had of racial chants.
"You (racist) b----," a 2010 graduate tweeted. "Glad I'm out of there."
Another one added, "Haha oh yeah that Ken East crap that's going on. I want no part in that."
What is your opinion about this situation? Is this right? Should there have been a suspension?
Please use complete sentences and don't forget spell check!
I don't think that there should have been a punishment. It is not that bad.
ReplyDeletei agree with LaRonda,
ReplyDeletei agree with brian
ReplyDeletei believe they should be suspended even if there was no harm meant that kind of behavior is unacceptable
ReplyDeleteWell they didn't know that there was racial descrimination so they didn't know it wasn't right to suspend the victim. She was being bullied no if's, and's, ot but's about it.
ReplyDeletei would have put them in their place too. Being suspended i don't think so, because we always saying words like that.
ReplyDeleteI think the punishment was Decent and that this is a big thing because Racism leads up to bullying.So they were also fighting between each other and they said it was a tradition so that makes there school look even worse the school probably only did it because other people were hearing about what happened so they had to do something about it or else it would go against them and the board would have probably done something about this since it is racism and basically bullying ,Like this one guy got banned from every Walmart because he was being racist so he probably has a banned poster in every Walmart in the world
ReplyDeleteOf Course She Did Right
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