Posted on 10/25/2017 7:23:07 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
A weekend youth football game between two peewee teams on Amherst Community Field ended abruptly after a child on one team called a peer opponent a racial slur.
The incident began when Kordell London, 9, a member of the Amherst Hurricanes peewee football team, called out to referees over an illegal tackle he believed an opposing Ludlow Lions player made on a teammate, according to Stacia London, Kordell's mother.
I think the Bad News Bears would have something to say about this:
(CLASSIC quote! Must see)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3cmUM9afWo
I’m sorry, but I can’t help but wonder the child’s race. It does not excuse the slur, but it would be interesting to know. Reading MassLive comments, verdict is in, Trump voting Ludlow whites...nuff said. Oh, and remove the child to CPS.
Read the article. You’ll find out the race of both children.
Only one as I read it. I just hope they apply the same language standard to events where rap or hiphop is played.
Yea that covered everyone
No such thing as race! ... Isn’t that right?
And this is an example of the racism that blacks are rioting over?
Nine years old and that's the FIRST time he;'s ever experienced it.
ONCE in nine years.
What? You helicopter parents. Toughen your kid up.
First say to little Johnny. You are ok.
Then tell little Billy to unleash to Johnny a whole bunch of racist words.
Little Johnny laughs it off.
Little Johnny, you are ok.
Versa visa for Billy.
I did and missed it the first time. Looks like a pile of the nutters who commented on the MassLive article did a lousy job reading too ;) I will now go back and help them out (no helping them).
I think the issue is that a 9 year old would experience such a thing at all. That said, the other kid shouldn’t ‘t be suspended. They need to sit them down together and work things out.
‘just some stupid white kid’
Oh yeah, nothing racist in that remark from the “victim”. ‘Just some stupid kid’ would have been enough. The fact that the description was added says a lot. I wonder sometimes if we will ever get passed the racial division the democrats have made and simply get back to being ‘Americans’.
“he said it was ‘just a stupid white kid from Ludlow’
” Stacia London’s ... husband and Kordell’s father, Michael, is black.”
So it’s not okay to make statements about skin color but it’s okay to make negative statements about Ludlow. Ludlow, BTW, is not known as an upper class town. It is an old mill town with a big population of Portuguese.
I wonder if it would have been okay for the kid to say - “he’s just a stupid black kid from Amherst.”
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