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Thread ID: 18570 | Posts: 8 | Started: 2005-06-07
2005-06-07 15:53 | User Profile
5 teams quit youth football league Decision stirs racial tensions By Donovan Slack, Globe Staff | June 6, 2005 In what youth football officials are calling a crisis, five suburban Pop Warner teams have voted to leave a conference filled with urban teams, including those from Mattapan, Dorchester, and Roxbury, roiling racial tensions in what is supposed to be a fun activity for 7- to-14-year-olds. Led by the Needham-Wellesley Eagles, teams from Natick, Weymouth, Framingham, and Norwood told Pop Warner officials they were leaving the Bay State Conference because they wanted to play more suburban teams. In interviews, team officials cited ''intimidating" rap music played at some city games, city teams' brand of hard-hitting football, and the safety of some city playing fields. Last summer, 11-year-old Jenry Gonzalez was shot in the chest during a Pop Warner practice in a Roxbury park. Boston coaches say the suburban teams' departures are nothing more than thinly veiled racial prejudice and that suburban team officials did not try hard enough to talk things out before leaving. ''You can sugar-coat it, but I call it like I see it. I think it's racist," Dorchester Eagles president Kenny Williams said. '' 'Black kids hit our kids harder, black kids listen to rap music' -- it doesn't make any sense to me." The allegations of prejudice are flying both ways. In a letter obtained by the Globe, Needham-Wellesley officials contend that a Boston coach getting off a bus at their football field egged on his players by saying, ''Let's go get some white [expletive]!" They also said a black coach from Boston called one of their players, who is Haitian, a ''traitor." ''We had to leave because our concerns weren't being met with any serious considerations," said Mike Libertini, vice president of the Needham-Wellesley Pop Warner organization, which is establishing a conference with other suburban teams in another league run by American Youth Football. For their part, coaches from city teams say that racially charged comments by them or their players are not tolerated. If anyone made them, they say, they no longer have their positions. The withdrawals have left the now nine-team Pop Warner conference with only one suburban team, Walpole, and an official there says it is considering withdrawing from the conference as well. Pop Warner officials had an emergency meeting last week and have scheduled another for Thursday to discuss the problem. It is perhaps the most contentious chapter in a saga that has played out over more than a decade. Since the first mostly nonwhite city team joined the Bay State Conference almost 12 years ago, predominantly white suburban teams have been leaving. The first was Hingham. When the Boston Raiders of Roxbury joined, Hingham team officials said they did not want to travel to the city, conference officials say. Over the years, as teams from Dorchester, Mission Hill, Mattapan, and the South End joined the conference, officials say, teams from Scituate, Randolph, Dedham, and Braintree left. The exodus last month was the biggest to date. [url]http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/06/06/5_teams_quit_youth_football_league/[/url]
One man wrote this at a forum concerning the above article:ââ¬ÅThese 'games' are just early war training for non-whites where they can hurt White children ,and sharpen their hunting skills at the same time.
They have a plan ,and the plan seems to be effective.ââ¬Â
A city slicker moron had this response:
ââ¬ÅDude... I lived IN an INNER CITY. I went to a high school with 50% black, 20% hispanic, don't tell me about "if I ever saw".
I'm not some backwoods, ignorant redneck that has never seen a black man in my life and is ignorant about any race question because I have never met one.......I am a city dweller and I live in a city now, with plans to move to a bigger city because of my job.
I know how black athletes are, and the vast majority of them that I have played with did not act the way you are saying, of course some did, but most didn't.
I have hardly ever seen black parents provoke White parents into fighting, but let me tell you this.....
I coached football at a White suburban school for one year and I had run-ins with parents about not playing their kids. Hey, even one wanted to fight me - over the phone not in person - and before I coached there I coached basketball for a group of inner-city kids and almost all their parents were at every single game and were THANKFUL that I was their coach and teaching them how to play the game the right way.
Now, I may be a WN, but I'm not ignorant. I know that our chances of a uniracial society is almost nonexistant, so I live my life the way I want to live my life and say to hell with what people think. I'm not going to blame ALL black athletes, but no doubt there are a lot of blacks who play the race card to motivate their teams, but in my personal experiences, that has not happened as much as people think it did...
Wait, I almost forgot..... my senior year of football our White head coach wrote a fake letter filled with racial epithets to our black captain which was "signed" by our rival's team head coach trying to fire him up for the game. It backfired and he was fired because he was wrong in doing that. That is one way I saw the race card being played in sports.ââ¬Â
Note how cool this fool thinks he is using such terms as ââ¬ËDudeââ¬â¢ and proudly proclaiming that he is not some backwoods, ignorant redneck!
He praises blacks and cuts down whitesââ¬Â¦and this ââ¬Ëdudeââ¬â¢ claims to be a WN.
This a prime example of why our race is in so much trouble: because so many of our people are flaming anti-Christ leftists. :wallbash:
2005-06-07 16:45 | User Profile
Gabby? why is the coach a "city slicker moron?".....all the guy did was to tell it as it is or at least as he thinks it is.
2005-06-07 17:11 | User Profile
Cheers to the schools that chose not to sacrifice their white students to avoid being called racist.
2005-06-07 20:46 | User Profile
that there's the spirit! if a colored tackles ye too dang hard, tackle'im eben harder, I'll tell ye wut! 'member it ain jes a game o' feetsball, it's a battle for yer racial supreem'cy, I'll tell ye. Coloreds think they're so high n mighty walkin' all upright and showin' that full set o' teeths, thinkin' they mr. big stud cuz they date outside their fambly. It really burns my britches, I'll tell ye.
2005-06-07 21:06 | User Profile
shut up, whosbobbarr? / KedMcFarlane. your half-life is about to end as soon as Sertorius, Tex, or Okie show up.
Back to your bridge, Troll. :starwars:
2005-06-08 19:14 | User Profile
[B]"Boston coaches say the suburban teams' departures are nothing more than thinly veiled racial prejudice and that suburban team officials did not try hard enough to talk things out before leaving."[/B]
It's this sort of nonsense which causes greater friction among people. Black kids may play harder as this may be a way for them to make big bucks, but at the same time, white kids should not be getting hurt in the process. Also, I can't help but think the blacks derive some deranged sense of pleasure in hurting whites. Let the blacks beat the tar our of each other, and the whites can find something more constructive to do.
2005-06-08 21:17 | User Profile
I doubt much of it has to do with being tackled hard.
"In interviews, team officials cited ''intimidating" rap music played at some city games, city teams' brand of hard-hitting football, and the safety of some city playing fields."
Vulgar Rap "music", violent play style (not simply bigger kids, like 20-year-old seniors), and safety. If these team officials were more candid, they would have complained about all manner of crime, extreme racial hostility from blacks, and the celebration of ghetto culture. When blacks aren't feeling like a minority, they're intolerable to be around (could anyone challenge this last point?).
2005-06-09 18:20 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Happy Hacker]I doubt much of it has to do with being tackled hard.
"In interviews, team officials cited ''intimidating" rap music played at some city games, city teams' brand of hard-hitting football, and the safety of some city playing fields."
Vulgar Rap "music", violent play style (not simply bigger kids, like 20-year-old seniors), and safety. If these team officials were more candid, they would have complained about all manner of crime, extreme racial hostility from blacks, and the celebration of ghetto culture. When blacks aren't feeling like a minority, they're intolerable to be around (could anyone challenge this last point?).[/QUOTE]
I think the blacks have a greater tendency toward violence, and this is reflected in their sports behavior.
The celebration of black ghetto culture is a phenomenon by those who want to romanticize violence, drugs, and crime. There are white kids who believe this behavior is cool, and they can be a part of what they consider to be an "in" group. An additional advantage is the acceptance of irresponsible behavior by other irresponsible people.