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A story to confirm what many black people already know. Save for appearances, white people use the word "Nigger" behind closed doors as if it were a pleasantry....
"One, two, three, n****r......"
Went the secret chant of The Kenmore East High School Basketball team as if it's utterance would somehow give the largely all-white team nigger-like strength and nigger-like speed. The chant did not sit well with Tyra Batts, 15, Black, who heard the chant before the season opener and took offense to it. When she confronted her team mates, they insisted that it was not racist, insisting that it was just a word, and not a label. A word that could have easily been substituted with one that made more sense like "FOUR" or "BULLDOGS" like the official school mascot ~ Mind you, I checked. The mascot is not a huge decked out nigger, with a white t-shirt up to his ankles, blue jeans, Air Force Ones and a gold chain.
Tyra Batts who attacked her teammate after months of racial abuse....
The situation came to a boil when Batts finally flipped out and threw one of her teammates into a wall for a well deserved choking and punching ~ yeah I said it, there are consequences to saying certain things. Eleven players were suspended for two days for the racist chant. Tyra Batts received a heftier suspension of five days
for fighting.
The chant had been going on for five months up until this incident, according to Batts.
Amber Schurter, a senior defended the chant as not racist. "We would all go into the locker room before the game, and we would
chant 1 2 3 then we would say the N word," said Schurter, who is
bi-racial. "If you don't know the people on the team, then obviously you're going
to probably think this is a little weird and you're going to look at them
as kind of racist, I guess, but I know that they're not."
Comments........
Firstly, nobody should be suspended due to the nature of this incident, certainly not the black girl who endured listening to racist chanting and rhetoric for five months. Most black people I know wouldn't endure it for five minutes. She seems to have showed restraint considering the circumstances. As for the girls on the Basketball team doing the pre-game KKK impression, what will a suspension achieve if they continue to believe that what they did is not racist? Their actions and defense of them points to a basic ignorance and social naivety. Nigger is not just a word, it hardly ever is, that's why people can't even say it in the mainstream media and tend to replace it with "The N Word." If the word nigger is used, especially by a white person, the result will usually be ugly. The word makes reference to a whole era of history in which the ruling class used it as a derogatory term to describe a slave class who they perceived to be less human, if at all than they. However, the word may be used and in whatever context it appears, it simply runs the risk of causing unnecessary tension. It certainly shouldn't be a word tossed around carelessly by a bunch of white girls on a Basketball team. There are plenty of other words in the vast English language to use that won't end up making me write articles like this.
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