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Racial slurs caught on camera and spread on social media cost a high school star baseball player his college scholarship, KGO reports. Video of the incident on Twitter shows a player using the phrase f*****g n****rs.
The student player from Pinole Valley High School of Alameda, California said those hateful words following a game against Saint Marys College High School of Berkeley Wednesday. The racial slurs were slung at the family of an opposing player. Obviously, I was dismayed, very distressed by what had occurred and without question it was unacceptable, Bussell Bloom, a parent of a Saint Mary student said.
The athlete had signed a letter of intent and was offered a scholarship from California State University Northridge. However, the recruiters dropped him after they found out the controversy as the athlete was tagged in tweets with the video.
Its given these kids an opportunity to see how far reaching their conduct can be and thats an important lesson, Bloom commented.
Discipline is essential, consequences are essential, but redemption is also essential, the principal of St. Marys, Peter Imperial said to KGO.
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lpbk2713
(42,753 posts)There's more to a scholarship than just being above average in one certain field.
His actions made him radioactive, no one wants anything to do with him now.
Orrex
(63,199 posts)Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)he is but another victim of overly sensitive minorities and guilt-ridden white liberals.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)and he probably thinks the right to free speech means he should have no consequences at all for anything he says.
Initech
(100,061 posts)clydefrand
(4,325 posts)but NOW, he probably wonders what the hell is going on, can't I say anything I like to say? Thought it was in the constitution. There is LAW and then there is STUPIDITY which this person showed.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)to tell us that losing a public scholarship is a violation of his first amendment rights
CharlotteVale
(2,717 posts)mythology
(9,527 posts)Hopefully he learns from this.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)cSun doesn't need that
MineralMan
(146,285 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)Accountability.
Alameda/Long Beach is heavily black, so that's a puzzle. Much of the California "backwoods" and there is more than you might think, are quite Red. It's the cities and coastal areas that are predominantly Blue to make it a Blue State.
Berkeley is so liberal it's been accused of being, gasp, communist.
He'll be able to go to a community college pretty much for free, while he gets his act together.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Shrub's torture lawyer.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)romanic
(2,841 posts)You pay a heavy price for being stupid and the kid paid heavily. Oh well.