Posted on 02/14/2020 9:43:40 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
When he’s not running the state, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice is leading the Greenbrier East High girls basketball team — a post he’s held since 2003.
Yet after an incident between the Spartans and rival Woodrow Wilson High School on Tuesday night, in which the game was suspended, Justice called the Wilson players “a bunch of thugs.”
Naturally, his comments have sparked immense backlash in the days that followed.
“I hate to say it any other way, but honest to God’s truth is the same thing happened over at Woodrow two different times out of the Woodrow players, they’re a bunch of thugs,” Justice said, via the Beckley Register-Herald. “The whole team left the bench. The coach is in a fight. They walked off the floor. They called the game.
“The game was over when they walked off the floor — it’s just as simple as that. They don’t know how to behave and at the end of the day, you got what you got.”
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“The talk around town is just how terrible it was that the governor said what he said,” Gene’s attorney Randolph McGraw told the Washington Post. “Woodrow Wilson is coached by two black men and the majority of the girls on the team are black women. People are pretty upset that the governor would say those kinds of things.
“Thugs, that’s the modern day term for the n-word, at least around here it is.”
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Too bad Don Imus isn’t around to comment on this one.
Maybe if the Governor only dressed in blackface, like his neighbor in Virgina, he’d get away with it.
Thugs come in all colors. Now they want to make it politically incorrect to call black folks who exhibit thuggish behavior “thugs”.
That’ll teach Justice to switch to the Republican party.
More context from: https://www.register-herald.com/news/naacp-calls-for-a-meeting/article_75b69a18-7917-5035-bcb3-b141fce6696d.html
“The Woodrow Wilson High School girls’ basketball team has a number of black players in addition to its two coaches, while the Greenbrier East team has no black players but one of its assistant coaches is black.
Some interpret the word “thug” to be street slang aimed at black Americans.”
Funny that they play for a school named after the most racist President in our country’s history.
Just kooky teens doing kooky teen things
But he was a Demiranian.
BS Thugs is not the modern day n word. I’m betting they absolutely deserved the remark.
“The Woodrow Wilson High School girls”
I guess wokeness hasn’t reached this school enough to wonder why it is named after that guy.
The proper word is thugettes
Don’t want to be called a thug, don’t act like a thug....
If they are repeatedly having fights at games... ????
Kind sounds like a bunch of thugs to me.
The term “Thug” derives from the Indian subcontinent. If I were of Indian descent and heard other groups take offense at the term, I’d raise cries of cultural appropriation.
If they act like thugs it’s perfectly acceptable to refer to them as such.
If they comport themselves with class and dignity, they’ll be referred to in more complimentary terms.
Woodrow Wilson was a racist. I’m surprised they haven’t changed the name already.
That’s more degrading than ”nappy-headed ho’s”. Fire him like they did Imus.
“...and the majority of the girls on the team are black women. “
I guess Gov. Justice wasn’t paying attention when Don Imus got supended several years back.
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