OT Girls basketball team calls for action after they say racial slurs yelled at St. Helens game

Good friend of mine’s daughter is on the team. He was at the game and said it was a pretty big group of the student section envolved. Very sad this happens man. He’s a 6’6” black dude..... told him he shoulda gone over there and sat right in the middle of them. He laughed and said if I was there with him, he would have! Ha!

 

Oh man! That would fix those loud mouths!
But would it satisfy those that want action against the team?

"The Parkrose varsity girls, however, feel an apology isn’t enough. They say they want to see action taken against St. Helens High School sports."

 

I always hate to punish people for things they didn't do but in this case shutting down all team sports for the year would be fine with me.


If this has been happening for years then the administration needs to go too.

 

eh, I don't know enough to begin to say.

 

I don't know either but it has supposedly been happening for years. Somewhere in that time it should have been addressed.

 

Perhaps it has been address before. Damned if I know.
Perhaps the antagonist doesn't like the way it was addressed. Dammed if I know.

 

With not even one single specific instance described by the offended coach in her letter, and apparently not noticeable enough that either coach, any fans, any student or parent felt the need to speak up AT ALL TO ANYONE AT THE TIME, I'm going to conclude this is much ado about nothing. A couple losers in the stands, certainly nothing to blame an entire school for. The problem is the coaches did nothing to confront it. Neither one.

Any decent coach, either side, would have stopped the game and called out the offenders right then and there.

Both teams need stronger coaches.

 

No HS throws more slurs during games than Monroe, Oregon.

 

I won a state title with Parkrose. Ironically, when I was there, there were maybe 10 kids in the entire school that were black.

 

Really changed out there in the past 15 years. All the change in the Mississippi and Alberta neighborhoods has forced a lot of families out. They have picked up and moved 100 blocks east.

 

We had one on one year and a max of about three during my four years at Lincoln. Still enjoy visiting with one, Harold, during my many high school reunions. Harold is one of the nicest guys I've ever had the pleasure of knowing.

 

Schools need to band together and refuse to play in St. Helens if their fans can't be respectful of the visiting kids.

Boom!

 

Good point Hobbs as there is no excuse for this kind of behavior and like I mentioned, my grandson a few years back made the same comment when they went there and played as he was in the same league with them.

 

I am fine with that but they need a self imposed ban to teach everyone a lesson. No way has this gone on undetected, most coaches I knew growing up would have forfeited the game before letting this continue.

I mean if they coached St. Helens. Maybe I'm giving them too much credit but I hope I'm not.

 

We had run-ins when we had to travel to St. Helena for sporting events (this was 18-20 years ago). We maybe had two “minority” players on our teams at any given time.

They were so odd. We called them the St. Helens homies. Put our two index fingers together at an angle to simulate a mountain/triangle shape. They didn’t like it. They were so tough they made fun of how old our bus driver was. Then proceeded to follow our bus for five miles out of town.

Gotta consider the source. So weird places like this with people like that still exist...

 

When one or two kids are fucking around in practice they all run for punishment.

 

This actually would do a lot.

 

Yes and I usually hate that. In this case fuck em.