Racist Fans; Sportscaster's Response

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Texas High School Fans 'White Power'
Signs Held At Basketball Game ​

A North Texas school district is investigating the actions of students at a high school basketball game who held up signs saying "White" and "Power."

The Flower Mound boys were playing Plano East on Friday when cellphones captured images of the signs. The images were then circulated on social media.

Plano East is more racially diverse than Flower Mound.

Flower Mound won the game, 75-73, in three overtimes.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/...as-high-school-basketball-game_n_6715904.html

 

[QueEx]

Texas Sports Anchor's Refreshing Response
To Racist Basketball Fans
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A Texas sportscaster whose impassioned defense of gay NFL prospect Michael Sam went viral last year delivered another refreshing take this week on racism and high school sports.


WFAA's Dale Hansen dedicated his "Hansen Unplugged" segment Tuesday to a controversy in the Dallas suburb of Flower Mound, where students were photographed last week holding up signs that read "White" and "Power" at a basketball game against a team from a more racially diverse school.

Hansen chided the Flower Mound students' parents who dismissed the dustup as nothing more than an accidental pairing of signs alongside each other. He shared that his granddaughter recalled attending games at Flower Mound where students would chant "Welfare babies, do you know who your daddy is? Because we know ours."

He also reached back to his own upbringing in Iowa, where he said his mind was "twisted" by the contrast between his father's constant and casual use of the "N-word" with praise for the only black family in the county where Hansen grew up.

"Kids have to be taught to hate and it's our parents and grandparents, and our teachers and coaches, too, who teach us to hate," Hansen said. "Kids become the product of that environment. I was. And they are."

"The kids who hold the signs and chant their racist slurs — and it's not all of them. It never is," he said. "But their ignorance perpetuates the stereotype of all of us in Texas as a racist, ignorant people."

Watch below:

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/dale-hansen-flower-mound-racism

 

[Mrfreddygoodbud]

coach needs to teach his players how to

stay focused...

fans can be super retarded and players have

to learn to ignore them...

to be honest, that was just stupid insecure cacs,

with even stupider parents... but it was freedom

of speech...

someone should just hold up a sign that said black

power...

but then they wouldve been arrested...

nevermind...


they should stop it, before they show their hypocrisy!!!